YouTube Blocked at School

[Charger_07]

Originally Posted by AtalanteStar25

If you have a problem with negative rep you received, take it up with the person involved and, if you truly believe they were wrong, contact Brandon and he could possibly remove it (or change it to neutral).

Also, remember that all the mods here on ChiefDelphi are volunteers. Many of them are in college or have a job, as well as on FIRST teams who are smack in the middle of build season. Please remember this before you criticize them.

Thank you.

I went a little overboard, sorry bout that

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Charger_07

I HATE WEBSENSE!!! it makes life miserable at school, .....miserable is dramatic i know, but it blocks random stuff, mostly useful stuff

Same here!! Only we use something else with a weird name. A lot of times we need information about something, for instance, Kevin's site was blocked, which hosts the camera default code. I don't condone what we did, and yes, I know we shouldn't have. But Bedford is pretty strict with their everything. Believe me. And with the process it would've taken for them to approve the site, our children still wouldn't be able to access it.

[artdutra04]

Most school systems block 'user content' sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Myspace, Geocities, and so on, as they have no idea what can appear in the pages in those sites. There's not much you can do except download the videos at home (Which is yet another great reason to use Mozilla Firefox! ) and bring them in on a USB drive to watch at school.

Or... The best way to solve the problem is to talk directly to your IT department and briefly outline any exact issues that you need solved. Chances are they won't buy a YouTube story, but if certain websites like ChiefDelphi are on the block list they can unblock them easily enough. Instead of yelling at them about how stupid their rules are, if you act as a gracious profesional they can magically unblock some websites (or at the very minimum, set lessened restrictions on certain websites).

[pheadxdll]

Well at least your team site isn't blocked.

Ours was for a short time but it was a misunderstanding.

[jacob07]

Originally Posted by pheadxdll

Well at least your team site isn't blocked.

Ours was for a short time but it was a misunderstanding.

Last year for about a month Our teams website was blocked due to pornography. It was great. The joke was on some of our mentors. But Talked to the people the runs the firewall and got it fixed. But it still was funny

[Choi9111]

If any admin read this post, my intention of this thread was NOT to find ways to get around our schools filters, but simply a way to at least be able to some how share the videos with my class for class disscussion. Becasue with youtube, it is not even possible to download/save the video clips outside of school to show in our class disscussions. Im very sorry for any Inconvenience and if you would like, to stop any further problems/misunderstandings, i will shut down this thread.

[Graham Donaldson]

I hate to sound like I'm putting more of a workload on Brandon, but I just came up with an idea that I thought was interesting that would (should) solve all of the problems, regardless of any and all video-hosting sites your school/work/place of internet access has blocked. On CD-Media, we have photos and white papers, right? What's the feasibility (Brandon or a mod) of putting a CD-Videos page up? I have no idea how to do it, but I'm imagining something similar to Google Video or Youtube, with a "home page" for the videos. They would be searchable and taggable, just like the photos. Albeit, if you have CD blocked, this won't work too well, but...

What do you guys think?

[Choi9111]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

I hate to sound like I'm putting more of a workload on Brandon, but I just came up with an idea that I thought was interesting that would (should) solve all of the problems, regardless of any and all video-hosting sites your school/work/place of internet access has blocked. On CD-Media, we have photos and white papers, right? What's the feasibility (Brandon or a mod) of putting a CD-Videos page up? I have no idea how to do it, but I'm imagining something similar to Google Video or Youtube, with a "home page" for the videos. They would be searchable and taggable, just like the photos. Albeit, if you have CD blocked, this won't work too well, but...

What do you guys think?

I think that is an icredible idea!!!!! haha that would solve A LOT of problems! Hope something like that could possibly be created! Great idea!

[AV_guy007]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

I hate to sound like I'm putting more of a workload on Brandon, but I just came up with an idea that I thought was interesting that would (should) solve all of the problems, regardless of any and all video-hosting sites your school/work/place of internet access has blocked. On CD-Media, we have photos and white papers, right? What's the feasibility (Brandon or a mod) of putting a CD-Videos page up? I have no idea how to do it, but I'm imagining something similar to Google Video or Youtube, with a "home page" for the videos. They would be searchable and taggable, just like the photos. Albeit, if you have CD blocked, this won't work too well, but...

What do you guys think?

good idea but does CD have the bandwidth and storage for tons of videos? that seems like the only big roadblock

[chris31]

Originally Posted by AV_guy007

good idea but does CD have the bandwidth and storage for tons of videos? that seems like the only big roadblock

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

[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?

[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.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

What's the feasibility (Brandon or a mod) of putting a CD-Videos page up? I have no idea how to do it, but I'm imagining something similar to Google Video or Youtube, with a "home page" for the videos. They would be searchable and taggable, just like the photos. Albeit, if you have CD blocked, this won't work too well, but...

That was in the design of CD-Media and still is a long-term goal; photos & papers were added just to completely replace the old gallery & white papers area.

It's lower priority on my list .. Fantasy FIRST and other things will be worked on before Videos in CD-Media.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

That was in the design of CD-Media and still is a long-term goal; photos & papers were added just to completely replace the old gallery & white papers area.

It's lower priority on my list .. Fantasy FIRST and other things will be worked on before Videos in CD-Media.

That makes sense, Brandon... it was an idea I wanted to propose, because I didn't know if it had been proposed before.