YouTube Blocked at School

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by chris31

You could always have the files still hosted on google or youtube and just tagged and searchable via CD.

That was the idea. Images will be able to be hosted off-site, as well. Eventually.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

That was the idea. Images will be able to be hosted off-site, as well. Eventually.

Would the videos be viewable through CD, though? The problem for us, at least with Google Video, is that we can get to the main page and look through all the videos, but when we try to watch them, they all say "This video is not available. Please try back later." I don't know what the "format of the block" is for others, but that may be a potential problem.

In other words, would it be a link to the Youtube page or the Google Video page, or would it be something else?

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by Matt Gardner

We don;t really have a problem with that at our school because we have a wireless network that allows us to use our own laptops, psps, etc. and we can access any site we wish (people often play WOW in the halls at lunch, lol). Also, our technical head is our mentor, so if we have issues that need fixing they can be addressed...

O.O

I want your school...

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

Would the videos be viewable through CD, though? The problem for us, at least with Google Video, is that we can get to the main page and look through all the videos, but when we try to watch them, they all say "This video is not available. Please try back later." I don't know what the "format of the block" is for others, but that may be a potential problem.

In other words, would it be a link to the Youtube page or the Google Video page, or would it be something else?

It would be an embedded player on ChiefDelphi. It would most likely still be blocked, if videos on YouTube or Google are blocked. We would just be providing a centralized place to view videos/images from external sites in the CD-Media system.

[Jak DiGriz]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

But you can always watch at home!

Thanks for the insight. The sky is also blue.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

It would be an embedded player on ChiefDelphi. It would most likely still be blocked, if videos on YouTube or Google are blocked. We would just be providing a centralized place to view videos/images from external sites in the CD-Media system.

Darn! There's no way to upload the .wmv's or .mp3's to CD and then have a embedded Windows Media-type player for them? Again, just an idea because I have no idea how to do it.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

Darn! There's no way to upload the .wmv's or .mp3's to CD and then have a embedded Windows Media-type player for them? Again, just an idea because I have no idea how to do it.

Both uploading and linking externally would be options, most likely.

[Cjmovie]

If there is a need, I could provide the hosting. I've been thinking about setting something up you might call a "Firstube". It would be like the gallery system on our website, where you are given the choice to watch the FLV video (using a flash player) or download the original (whatever format that might be) where flash is blocked.

Regardless, I'll probably do something.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Cjmovie

If there is a need, I could provide the hosting. I've been thinking about setting something up you might call a "Firstube". It would be like the gallery system on our website, where you are given the choice to watch the FLV video (using a flash player) or download the original (whatever format that might be) where flash is blocked.

Regardless, I'll probably do something.

Beat you to it - I've put some of the recent youtube vids in flash format on our website along with a link to a stand alone flash player. www.vandenrobotics.org just click on the movie reel icon in the top right corner.

** disclaimer - I have a gut feeling that I have broken some violation of something on youtube (yep, by posting video on youtube, youtube has rights to it) - if anyone has a problem with this please send me a pm. Also I'm not sure how long I can get away with hosting some video files on our district server - so this is only a short term solution.

[Syncopation]

While it'd be nice to have all the teams host their videos, most teams don't have the hosting or capacity to do so. So video hosting sites are the obvious and simple solution. CD Media including videos would be nice, but that'd be a much more extreme load on CD servers compared to just the white papers and the pictures. Not sure how able Delphi would be to get that kind of bandwidth.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

That was the idea. Images will be able to be hosted off-site, as well. Eventually.

Whoa! Considering I basically emulated a bunch of the features of CD-Media when I wrote the photo gallery PHP/MySQL backend for the team228.org website (except that I use a "Flickr set"-like sorting method), that would be awesome. I even added tags to our photo galleries. We certainly have the storage space and bandwidth to handle hosting all our team photos.

As for a CD-Video option, what about the feasibility of using FLV encoded video with an embedded Flash Video player like FlowPlayer? While the transcoding from WMV/MOV to FLV may be server intensive as a "direct upload video to ChiefDelphi" option, there might be an easy way to use a YouTube/Google Video FLV stream copied to CD's server and plug that into the FlowPlayer embedded on ChiefDelphi. As long someone had Flash installed in their browser and CD had the storage space to host the videos, then you'd be able to watch it.

[rdlevy1215]

I would Suggest using your team's website to post video and then send links on CD to watch them (assuming your team has a site )

[Pavan Dave]

Late last year, around April they decided to block ChiefDelphi, The Robonauts Website, and one of the FIRST sites (home or Q&A I don't remember), so I told one of the techies at school who helps out with robotics and he got them unblocked.

Also for those that try to get by the schools' settings, at my school at least, you can get suspended from school and lose computer/technology permissions for the rest of your high school career for using proxy servers, whether for CD or YouTube, schools have blocked stuff for a reason, and if you have a problem with it or you feel that there is something that was unnecessarily blocked, talk to your robotics teacher sponsors and maybe an administrator or something because it works, and even if it takes two to three weeks to get CD unblocked or something else, (YouTube will never be unblocked by the way...there are reasons due to some of the R rated clips on the site), it is completely worth it.

By the way here is the Vid you requested and if you need any help or have questions give me a PM on CD or AIM.

Pavan.

[Grim Tuesday]

You do know that you necro-bumped a thread 4 years old?

[Cuog]

Originally Posted by Newo95

I've noticed a disturbing pattern in the censorship of these posts. All of the posts that deal with possibly breaking any sort of rule are deleted immediately. I'm not sure why this is necessary considering a simple google search would reveal the same exact content.

Since you've already necro posted, I'll go ahead and answer. It's mostly a matter of who we're representing here on CD. FIRST focuses on a spirit of gracious professionalism, and its generally unprofessional to use(or abuse) systems provided by a third party for your own uses when is specifically goes against an agreement you entered. In other words, we frown upon saying you'll follow the sysadmin's rules, then going and trying to get around those rules. Also since many here are students, they have another can of worms. Getting into trouble with a computer in the wrong circumstances can get you into a lot of trouble, not just a little, but big time civil and criminal litigation if you piss off the wrong people, or worse make them look stupid.

Yes you can get around filters. I was no angel, I can't say I followed all the rules to a "T" all the time, but I won't tell anyone how to get into trouble, and I wont encourage others to try and break the rules for something as silly as watching a youtube video, and I think most on here would agree with me on that front.