[Imc-london] good news [WAS Re: video comments]

[jagmad at riseup.net]

Hi Yoss,

I think the drop down box is a good idea, perhaps accompanied by a short
explanatory note? People will quickly learn the difference.

The odd thing though is that I have never had this problem with YouTube
which seems to auto-detect with no probs. Nevertheless, it is great to be
able to use embedded video at all on an IMC site.

Anyway many thanks,

Doug.


> Hi everyone!
>
> First, thanks very much to the server fairies for their magical work.
> It's good to see that the video misconfiguration problem is cleaned up :).
>
> Second: Doug, this aspect ratio thing has been bugging me for a long
> time, and I've finally gotten around to doing something about it.
>
> The basic problem has been that different cameras shoot their 16:9
> videos in different ways, and auto-detection of the correct aspect ratio
> is basically impossible.  I've added a drop-down box which will force
> the user to choose either 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio at the time of
> upload, which should mean that the aspect ratio is going to be whatever
> the user chooses.  I'm making the assumption that people know what
> aspect ratio they're shooting in, is this a good or bad idea?
>
> If people can try a variety of 4x3 and 16x9 video uploads on the test
> site, here, it'd be a big help at this point:
>
> http://hyperactive.escapegoat.org/videos/new
>
> Once we're sure that the videos are working properly, we can speak to
> the server fairies once more and get this code running on the live
> site(s).  Doug, thanks for continuing to bug us about it!
>
> Yoss
>
> ps to the geeks, I've done a major refactoring of the
> VideoConversionWorker which should make it a lot easier to understand.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/10/10 07:14, jagmad at riseup.net wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Many thanks gdm. Great relief!
>>
>> I hate to mention it as well but I have had problems in the past with
>> the
>> video aspect ratio, which does not occur with the same video on other
>> well-known sites.
>>
>> This is one example which is 16:9 ratio but has been squeezed.
>>
>> http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/5292
>>
>> Not sure why this is occurring but the ratio seems to be set by the
>> leading video clip. When I have combined 4:3 with 16:9 in one video this
>> was the case but should not happen with a solely 16:9 video.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> i'm sorry for the huge delay, but i believe this problem has now been
>>> fixed! please check it out and let us know if there are continued
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> the problem seems to have been due to an incorrectly configured switch
>>> (on the part of the bandwidth provider). more info is available in the
>>> following ticket - specifically, the comment mentioned:
>>>
>>>  * https://support.mayfirst.org/ticket/2928#comment:10
>>>
>>> solidarity,
>>>
>>> 	--gdm
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:23:13AM -0700, jagmad at riseup.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> Two things. The video plays faster than the download speed and the
>>>> download keeps stopping. If you pause the video hopefully the download
>>>> will continue until it is complete and then you can play the video
>>>> without
>>>> hassle. But this waiting around rather defeats the object of having
>>>> embedded video on a website, which should play smoothly right from the
>>>> start.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I notice the stopping too now, is that to do with the buffering? It
>>>>> seems like not enough of the video gets loaded before it starts
>>>>>
>>>> playing.
>>>>
>>>>> It starts playing faster than from lots of other sites, shorter delay
>>>>> between pressing play and the video starting up, but then it stops
>>>>>
>>>> after
>>>>
>>>>> a little while.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/05/2010 14:30, yossarian wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/11/2010 02:28 PM, jagmad at riseup.net wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't know if this helps. I have Bitmeter on my computer. At the
>>>>>>>
>>>> time
>>>>
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> testing YouTube runs at about 1MB/sec and seldom drops below 0.5MB.
>>>>>>> VisononTV also adopted my video and seems similar in performance to
>>>>>>> YouTube. Indy, however, seldom rises to 0.4MB and keeps dropping to
>>>>>>> near
>>>>>>> zero, which interrupts the video.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> let me know if there is anything else I can test.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://codebox.no-ip.net/bitmeter2dl
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah, that's great feedback, thanks for that, Doug.  I'll forward this
>>>>>>
>>>> on
>>>>
>>>>>> to server people and see if they have any comment on it.  In the
>>>>>> meantime, if anybody else can do similar tests that'd be rather
>>>>>> good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yoss
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>
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