FIRSTTube! - Are you tube enough?

[Pavan Dave]

How it all happened
The FIRST Tube project started the week after the build season ended after I posted a thread on CD asking if anybody would actually use it if it was there. Days later, the project set off with Forest Immel, Alex Kowald, and me, Pavan Dave, with a goal of making it possible for FIRST participants to share videos on a web site that is not blocked by school districts with a "ONLY ROBOTICS VIDEO" policy so schools have no reason to block it. The videos must be somehow related to Robotics, and you will see categories on the site where you can put your videos ranging from "Team Bonding" to "Regional Competitions".


Why Use it?
Because many students are complaining on CD because most of the time when they are on computers they are blocked from You Tube, and many teams rather than hosting on their own sites, refer to You Tube, so this way with FIRST Tube you can upload videos and be reassured that 99% of schools have not blocked it because they have never even heard of it.


Okay, okay, now where do I go to see this FIRST Tube?

You can go to FIRST Tube by typing in http://www.firsttube.org/ into your browser.

For any questions please feel free to contact me via Personal Message through CD or by using the Email feature through CD.

Please keep in mind FIRST Tube is in it's beta stage at moment and there is a bug that only enables us to view the first minute of your video so I apologize for that in advanced but we are working on it and you are not able to seek through videos. If you find any other bugs please feel free to let us know so that we can take the appropriate action.

[Joe Matt]

This is too awesome. I'm going to upload all our FIRSTcast material up there and use it from now on for videos!

THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING SERVACE!

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

This is too awesome. I'm going to upload all our FIRSTcast material up there and use it from now on for videos!

THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING SERVACE!

Keep in mind that there is a problem limiting us to 1 minute of material at the moment and we are currently trying to get that fixed, but you could upload them in parts if you would like. I apologize again for the problem and hope it doesn't cause too much inconvenience to the community.

Pavan.

[Zoheb N]

Sweet!! This will definitely be very useful esp. once a lot of the videos get uploaded. Thanks to all of you who have worked on getting this up.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Keep in mind that there is a problem limiting us to 1 minute of material at the moment and we are currently trying to get that fixed, but you could upload them in parts if you would like. I apologize again for the problem and hope it doesn't cause too much inconvenience to the community.

Pavan.

That's cool. It'll be little preview segments for FIRSTcast. Still an awesome job though!

[cire]

Very good job guys! Ill be uploading anything i make there as soon as the 1 minute bug is fixed.

[Michelle Celio]

Looks good hopefully you can get it running to more than a minute.

Oh and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE change your logo, it is clearly in violation of the FIRST logo standards (which are available on the FIRST website, I would link to it but the FIRST website times out on this computer).

[LightWaves1636]

THIS IS AWESOME!!! I'll defiantly be uploading Team 1636's videos.

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

Looks good hopefully you can get it running to more than a minute.

Oh and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE change your logo, it is clearly in violation of the FIRST logo standards (which are available on the FIRST website, I would link to it but the FIRST website times out on this computer).

Here ya go!
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...QuickStart.pdf
CAUTION!! PDF

[Tim Arnold]

Hmm, very cool, huge potential!

I assume you are looking for some constructive criticism so here are some things I noticed while quickly looking over the site:

• No video image previews
• Timebar isn't working correctly, it jumps to full after about a second of playback
• The help page is blank
• As mich said, bad logo violation. If you want, I can play around with photoshop later and see what I can come up with...

After practically a failure of my FIRST resource, FIRSTr (due to lack of use), I sincerley hope that you can get a good userbase for your project. It is a nearly flawless youtube clone from what I have seen so far, and has massive potential.

Anyway, I'll keep playing with it and report back if I see anything else to bug you about. No matter what, great job so far!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

So, I'm intrigued to what you are using for the backend FLV conversion on this. The Blue Alliance recently acquired a dedicated server from Host Rocket.com. I'm not the go to guy on this, but I believe we will be using FFmpeg (it installs on Linux, yea) along with a bunch of scripts to automatically take the uploaded file, convert it to FLV, and populate the database with it.

[1086VEX]

THATS AWSOME!!!! ill try to find some 1086 videos to post...

~Alex~

[Syncopation]

Great site, but does need a lot of work. Despite that, I hope to see this come to be widely accepted by the FIRST/CD community. 'twould be a great help to those of us stuck behind district-wide filters.

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Syncopation

Great site, but does need a lot of work. Despite that, I hope to see this come to be widely accepted by the FIRST/CD community. 'twould be a great help to those of us stuck behind district-wide filters.

Thank you everyone. We are currently still working very hard on the site. This is NOT the final version of FIRST Tube, it is only the beta version and it still needs some major changes made. We wanted to test some stuff and wanted some videos uploaded and comments so we could make the final version much much better.

Thanks,
Pavan.

[CaseyKasem77]

Best Idea ever came up with, great place to centralize First Media, and FIRST Related Media, thank you so so much for this service.