Doing some testing and evaluation of providing streaming videos (you might remember we looked at this a while ago). Got a very very very rough prototype up, more just to test the technology than anything else. If anyone can hit this page and try to watch some videos, that'd be handy.

Duke Nukem Forever example.

You will need the latest version of Flash. If you don't have it, it should tell you that you don't and not let you do anything until you've upgraded.

That DNF one takes me to a d/l version, not a streaming one. Unless I'm doing something wrong.

Told me to download flash first, did that and it worked fine.

Sounds like you're doing something wrong to me! It should take you to a page with a flash box on it and a link underneath it saying "download this video"

Ok, I see what happened. I clicked on the flash link and installed that and it's all fine now.

I accept your apology trog.

haah

Works great. Well done Trog.

outdated flash notice needs to be bigger imho. remember most people on the internet are stupid and you do have it right above the download link so it just looks like you have no streaming video only a download link.

edit: that dnf trailer looks like the quake3 intro video, wtf.

last edited by whoop at 19:01:39 20/Dec/07

Yeah, since these are mp4 flv encodes it requires flash v9 which was only released recently so a lot of peeps probs wont have it installed yet.

This is all I get visiting it from my laptop which doesnt have the latest flash installed.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/1631/agnvidyy9.jpg

Needs to have a better placeholder so people know there's supposed to be a video there, I think.

yeh will make that more obvious

yeh I got what dan's screenshot shows
then when I made myself read the text there and went to the flash download page, it insisted I close firefox so I refused

take that!

I have h1'ed that s*** so now it is clearer

sif bicep curls what a homo

also works

I understand it's probably not the target platform but running linux/flash v9.0.48, I get the

"The version of the Flash player you currently have installed does not meet the minimum requirements."

sif bicep curls what a homo

lol at the end of my back session yesterday I did standing curls with a bar... I couldn't even do it with weights on the bar:( then I had to swap to the lady's bar I was so weak!

I understand it's probably not the target platform but running linux/flash v9.0.48, I get the

Is that the latest version of flash for lunix?

chins / pullups w 30kg chains ftw

Is that the latest version of flash for lunix?

Ah no it wasn't. I thought you meant flash version >= 9. I just upgraded to the latest (9.0.115.0) and it works a treat.

booyah, thanks dude

so, whaddya think, prefer that or downloading

i prefer downloading a higher res version myself, so i can fullscreen stuff

the flash video playere works very nicely though, although tis fullscreen button thing doesnt seem to work

last edited by Freewheelin at 16:33:03 21/Dec/07

My computer tower started to shake and smoke whilst loading the page and then this popped onto my screen

The version of the Flash player you currently have installed does not meet the minimum requirements.

I prefer streaming, (instant grat FTW) espesially if its high quality like the example on display.
I hate waiting for s*** to download, but sometimes, its nice to have the option.

As crazy as it would sound to the me of a couple of years ago, my personal pref is now streaming. If I just want to give a vid a quick check it's nice to have it just there. That said, having the option to download the full HD file if you want to is the big win and I hope we can easily maintain both.

I think it's overkill to provide every trailer in a variety of formats like some sites do. versions for ipod, psp etc. It would be great if we could settle on one standard format to encode all downloadable vids, my vote would be mp4, though I'm not sure which container would be the best bet for user-friendlyness.