pouët.net

Well, when I asked for "a reasonable bitrate" I didn't have the quality in mind, but what data-rate works well for most people and how much traffic your server actually can handle...


And you are sure about that?

hellfire - I try to keep things under 1.5 mbit if possible so people with slower broadband can watch vids, the hard-set limit on capped's uploader page is around 3 mbit though. US broadband typically is around 3-5 mbit, some 15 mbit, mine is only 1.5 mbit though. The server is on a gigabit line so it can handle plenty of transfer, only issue is lantecy kills transfer speeds to europe and causes videos to unnessarily buffer for some people, thinking about asking scene.org for mirror space [:D?] and perhaps giving that as a option for people.

As for bandwidth, 95% sure. 2 TB standard and overages are $0.10/GB [$100/TB, US dollars], server is a quad-xeon at a large datacenter [it ain't going down any time soon]. So as long as I can get funds for overages [I'm saving anything I get right now for those emergencies], I'm sure bandwidth won't be too much of an issue.

By the way, what IS the average consumer internet speeds over there anyway? :p

slow.

don't forget that our tvs are still black and white eh.

black and white are colors.

and the french are still stubborn about it!

You know, your jokes about french people are making me cry, I thought we were friend and I'd like to take a minute just sit right there, I'll tell you how I become the prince of a town called Bel-Air

New Crud:
- Added a quick option for Low bitrate on the encoder.

This weekend I guess I'll update the website with some more options:
- Thumbnails for videos
- Include optional comment on site
- Include widthxheight + bitrate & size
- Search of course
- Some cheap API to grab video data and/or search for stuff.
- Organize videos on the front page by new release & popularity
- Option to use a black page background instead for those who want it.

Ideas for a bit later:
- Batch uploading + use pouet ID to grab screenshot/links off of instead for those too lazy to do so.
- Make links auto-update from pouet, which would be better.
- Spark version of videos so you can watch on older flash players and the nintendo wiiiiiiiiiiiii

Any other ideas [or ones here I may have missed], [re-]post here and I'll see what I can do. Easy things I'll probably include over my weekend list.

I need to stop posting lists that I don't actually get to. Been sick, so been in bed most of the weekend.

Anyway,
- Added in background color changing for those who like black instead of white. If the javascript doesn't work for you [or save the color], try changebg.php.
- Added a back to home button in the player page.
- Added statistics logging into the player. Those will be used later.

Capped.TV

kudos! the quality of the videos is pure awesomeness! keep it up!

nice quality indeed.. but.. videos load rather slow, imho (and i get quite some buffering)

so much better than youtube =)

i would maybe increase the default buffer size...

looking great!

Coded the past few hours making a converter that ports my little nfo files, which the entire site ran on [read and parse, fun fun], to mysql. Already moved most stuff over [at least where it made sense to].

New:
- Added thumbnails to index [should be shoved into your cache with fun expire headers]
- More video info on the index, including comments
- Now actually has a mySQL database as mentioned above [Which means I can do a lot more fun stuff soon]
- Statistics are visible now [sorta]. They started logging a few days ago, and I don't think they log every view properly, but it's something.

More later.

Capped.TV

could you remove the redundant copies of Invoke then? :)

also, heh heh, http://capped.tv/playeralt.php?vid=1205500904-1-0 still has a problem with accents :D

micksam: http://flashvideo.progettosinergia.com/

I've seen that site already, helped me a bit to setup my encoder. :p My encoder is set to be pretty much as efficient as possible [that's why it takes about 20+ minutes to encode a 4 minute demo on the quad-core xeon capped is on :D], without being -too- excessive.

Gargaj - I'm now having titles generate in PHP/GD and then have flash load them as a PNG, saves filesize on the player [no need to embed the entire 200k+ font].

So!

New:
- Unicode does work on Capped-liner [I even went through the trouble to put in font-switching! So Japanese characters work]
- Index page has simple sorting now

A full cache empting might be required to get the new player code to load.

And oh yes: http://capped.tv/playeralt.php?vid=limpninja-unicodeworksoncapped

[make sure new player code is loaded ;p might need to empty your browser's cache if it doesn't show the correct characters]

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I uploaded, but it won't go. It said it converted right, but doesn't play in the embedded flash player, the video shows up as a 10 pixel high, 1 pixel wide image. Other videos play fine.

This was an avi encoded in 'microsoft video 1' format in kkapture, video quality 75% or so in that, 580 mb file or so.

http://capped.micksam7.com/player.php?vid=1209597108-1-0

I'll check it out GbND - If I can't get it to work, I'll go hand encode it on my system for ya. ;P

gb: video1 only works with 8-bit paletted or 16bit RGB data, whereas kkapture always produces 24bit. besides, even if it works, the quality is crap. if you want something for uploading without going through a long encoding process, try using xvid with fixed quantizer lower than 1.

er, meaning to say, i'm pretty sure the original video is busted already; or if it isn't, the quality would suck hard.

ffmpeg seems to have failed at color conversion and labeled it as "RGB[chr 0x0f]", which made the actual h.264 encoder crash [I don't really do error checking on it ;p]. I really need to get a more robust encoder together then the hack I have running right now..

Also, the entire video was blank frames when I tried to play it on my home machine. :P

I'll get my own cap together and reupload it for you, so no worries. :)

great site. somehow seeking seems to be broken here, will debug that tomorrow if i have an idle minute. :)
you should try adding fullscreen hw scale, should be much faster at large screen resolutions. or add it as an option, see http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:9:Update:Full-Screen_Mode_HW