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no photographs in the art portal. no live action in the video department. WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST REAL LIFE!?

Can anyone confirm whether or not the swf converter will be able to work on mac? God I hope so :(

At 4/15/12 03:16 PM, CrazyRock wrote: That's cool.

LITERATURE PORTAL IS WANTED TOM

WE ARE NOT BECOMING DEVIANTART.

I am having some serious problems with the Starbarians video. The audio in it is playing fine, but the video is jumping back and forth constantly, rendering it wholly unwatchable. Since I know I can't describe it accurately, I fired up CamStudio and recorded the first few seconds to show what I get in Firefox (with AdBlock) and Chrome (without AdBlock) when I try to watch it. Here it is (roughly 2.5MB).

Now, being the clever person that I am, I used Firefox to do some snooping and was able to download the mp4 file locally. When I play it here, both the audio and video are messed up. So I think it's the video file.

When you say that the video submissions will be on an invite-only basis, does that mean that it will run sort of like the Art Portal does, where approved people can approve of other people?

Then again, I'm not sure how this could work, unless 'unscouted' people uploaded their video work to their blogs and were discovered that way.

Either way, it will be neat to see how videos may be implemented into Newgrounds. I'd expect much higher standards than Youtube, of course, which as others are saying may increase some traffic to Newgrounds.

Best to keep this invite only forever. If live video is allowed, this place will just turn into a mini Youtube full of junk. Cover charge keeps the riff raff out, and making people post in flash format helps keep the portal solid animation and games like it always has been, allowing easy access to post videos will lead to an endless crapflood of little kids and idiots posting whatever they record on a camera all over the portal. Making formats easier just makes it easier for non artists to post the kind of stuff that's not wanted here.

The worst thing is, it potentially turns this place into a war for e-fame, as youtube is now to full for most people to get their foot in the door. With free video posting, every dick with a camera will post here and get all there non-Newgrounds friends and similar artists to flood this place and launch voting wars that will destroy good works here to promote utter crap. I don't want a bunch of people thinking they will be the next Fred or the big thing by posting moronic videos to Newgrounds thinking it will laucnh them somewhere. I seriously think free video posting could destroy Newgrounds.

Just saying.

At 4/15/12 10:51 PM, Blordow wrote: Can anyone confirm whether or not the swf converter will be able to work on mac? God I hope so :(

Yeah, Mac really needs it more then the PC crowd do since they can export things nicely as .mov's anyway. Most of the pro animators I know use Macs and we kind of need an alternative to taking things into AE or Premier to export them.

Starbarians is out FINALLY.

I was beginning to think it was all just a joke.

At 4/15/12 11:14 PM, MindChamber wrote:

At 4/15/12 10:55 PM, DiMono wrote:

Now, being the clever person that I am, I used Firefox to do some snooping and was able to download the mp4 file locally. When I play it here, both the audio and video are messed up. So I think it's the video file.

if it works fine for other people, then theres no way it could be the file

I fired up VLC Player as another test program, and it played fine. I guess the particular installation of GOM Player I have just can't handle that file. Weird.

So we're back to the player in the website then. Is anyone else having a similar problem to the one I posted about?

Nice quality, the player seems more solid than Youtube's even. Although I can imagine this costing a lot more bandwidth, but traffic will probably increase a lot with all the new animators coming in.

Wow thats awesome :D
No technical need for paralell youtube uploads anymore for the authors :)

At 4/15/12 09:31 PM, TomFulp wrote: We've been having some other issues where the video simply never loads - that might be the problem you're experiencing. Starbarians is 88 megs which should be manageable for anyone with broadband. Slow computers running 1080p video is another issue though. I liked to think we were late enough to arrive with video that we wouldn't need to cater to all the smaller formats for slower computers / connections... But then I know mobile people especially will likely want smaller versions... BARF.

Still pretty quality player. Everything worked great on my crappy netbook, and most sites that play in 1080p aren't capable of anything like that. Good job guys.

They don't work very well for me.. they have green "static" type stuff all over them.
Unwatchable :(

At 4/16/12 05:15 AM, Shaun wrote: They don't work very well for me.. they have green "static" type stuff all over them.
Unwatchable :(

Its a shame.. the audio makes it sound like im missing out on something special...

Wow, this is awsome! Newgrounds is getting better and better.
Takes a long time to load movies though :(

It only took me around 2-3 minutes to load 88 MB Starbarians.

Y'all have slow internet.

However, I do agree that you should probably get some kind of system that compresses the video after you upload it, YouTube style. But make sure it doesn't have the same problem the YouTube compressor has with red (it makes bright red look super ugly)

At 4/15/12 03:40 PM, PoopyMcButt wrote: video is a -no- go for me. I've tried 3 browsers and the videos will not work.

I hear audio only, I've tried chrome, opera, and explorer. I have all the latest versions.

I'm also using windows 7 OS

anyone know why this is happening?

I'm using Win 7 as well and chrome. Playback goes smooth until I cut the internet down below 1.2 mb/s or so. Maybe you have slow internet and need to wait for the buffer to fill up.

Hey Starbarians was all glitchy and flickery while BarfQuestion's video was fine.

At 4/15/12 03:15 PM, Patonion wrote:

At 4/15/12 03:13 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 4/15/12 03:09 PM, TomFulp wrote: Hey check out these two movies, they both have something in common:

they take forever to buffer?

I'm 60 seconds of loading later and there is ~5 seconds buffered. Teething problems? completely unwatchable...

Same here, although I do have a lousy internet connection atm, I think it's because it's buffering at full 1080p, I think you need to implement an option to turn down the quality Tom :(

Yeah, I have a good internet connection and it continues to buffer its self every couple of seconds. I hope this video player doesnt replace all flash animation on NG. Its a cool feature but at what cost?

I had no problem viewing Valentine's Day 2012. When I was trying to play Starbarians however, the video was unfortunately unwatchable. The audio runs fine, but the animation doesn't. All I get to see are what seems to be one frame every two seconds alternating all the while the screen gets flashed by green the entire time. This also happened to the Robocop animation MindChamber recently uploaded. I'm using Chrome on Windows 7. I don't understand what's wrong though as Valentine's Day 2012 worked fine.

Nonetheless though, it seems to work magnificently for everyone else though so that's good news. Mike has done a damn good job here. Newgrounds just seems to be getting better and better.

Mp4 support to upload converted large swf files? Awesome.