FIRSTTube! - Are you tube enough?

[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.

[Dan Petrovic]

This is an incredible idea.

Period.

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by SSMike

Great Idea Pavan. Just on thing though...Will there be blocks on it so that people can't post videos not pertaining to robotics? Because if not, I gaurantee someone will put one on there. Just my thoughts, but awesome idea, I'm going!

Yes sir! I am hoping that for the most part, people will flag videos inapporpriate (You see a link to report at the bottom of the video page) but once we get enough people I will ask some CD mods or some active FT people to help moderate and delete videos.

Pavan.

[Cody Carey]

Awesome Idea!

[BandChick]

VERY cool concept! I can't wait to see it when it's fully developed! You can be NYC/NJ FIRST will link to it for a helpful resource in the future!

[lynca]

I've been playing with the different upload formats. mpg and avi are working, except for the St. Louis videos on SOAP these are made with DIVX, you might want to try to update your video codecs on the server. Do you have a way of viewing which codecs you support ?

[Sean Marks]

This is really sweet. Cant wait till its fully running.