FIRSTTube! - Are you tube enough?

[SSMike]

Great Idea Pavan. Just one 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!

[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.

[fimmel]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

So, I'm intrigued to what you are using for the back end 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.

yes were using ffmpeg (very hard to get to run on a 1and1 Linux package. one of the reasons for the lack of thumbnails is that we cannot (as of yet) get the php-ffmpeg extension to work properly. that may also be causing the 1 minute time limit.

If anyone has experience using ffmpeg and or has a server location that we can get access to install ffmpeg to that would be great (as i said the files can be hosted at different locations so it will not be a huge amount of bandwidth, basically all initial uploads and then sending the files to a different server)

also how much is your dedicated server? im seeing if i can find a server that will do the converting and then upload the files to other servers as more space is required.

[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.

[1359th Scalawag]

So far, yes I know it's still being worked on, but are there still only 3 videos?

[joshsmithers]

Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag

So far, yes I know it's still being worked on, but are there still only 3 videos?

(happy b-day, btw)
well, the first time i heard about it was now. and i assume most FIRSTers weren't told till this afternoon. it'll be booming in a few weeks.

this is crazy awesome.

[Josh Goodman]

Very cool, I just added it to my favorites! I will defiantly use this.

[Kristian Calhoun]

So I just tried accessing FIRSTtube from school, and received the following message:

Your organization's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.

Reason:
The Websense category "Uncategorized" is filtered.
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URL:
http://firsttube.org/

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

So I just tried accessing FIRSTtube from school, and received the following message:

This just means that your school's internet policy only allows categorized websites and from there on it filters it, I guess. FIRSTTube just needs to categorize their website as "robotics" or something like that. If it can be done, I don't know anything about this stuff. Just reasoned assumption.

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

So I just tried accessing FIRSTtube from school, and received the following message:

Thank you very much. I will see that this problem gets taken care of soon. If anybody else has problems like these please let me know. Also if this site is blocked at your school send me a personal message and I will send you an email to send to your administers to get it unbanned. If you read our ToS, we are school friendly.

Thanks guys, without you guys we wouldn't be here!

Pavan.

[wolfj]

This is what we've been waiting for all along!!