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gamevideos.com (wtf is this poppycock!)
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binaryburrito
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KennyL said:
Not that we expect anybody to know this, 'cause it's not advertised, but lately the flash-encoding streaming videos on the site are usually compressed out at 640x360(480). So, even though the player on the page is small, if you click that arrow on the bottom right corner of the player, you'll get 640x360(480) stretched fullscreen to fit your desktop.
like mark said, the site's in beta, and it won't come out of beta until it's in much better shape.
glad you like the content...
MirageDwarf
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KennyL said:
And left column too. Move these two column to the bottom of the page.
MirageDwarf
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Gattsu25 said:
Yeah. I just realized that I downloaded those videos on my desktop. So actual path would be bigger than 256. Use short names please.
Souldriver
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Oh, I didn't know that. That little arrow seems more like a "click here and you'll go back to the homepage of gamevideo's" kinda link.todayzee said:
Still, it's pretty stupid for a site completely devoted to video's to only have the video's themselves taking up 1/10th of the screen.
Azure Dream
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Streaming/Download connection breaks for me a lot, especially when I'm trying to DL things over dial-up, but not exclusively then.
Thank goodness I can take an URL catcher program, grab some of those FLV filenames when there's no download link, and stick it in GetRight. And press the "Reconnect" button a few dozen times along the way...
Thank goodness I can take an URL catcher program, grab some of those FLV filenames when there's no download link, and stick it in GetRight. And press the "Reconnect" button a few dozen times along the way...
MaddenNFL64
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I haven't had problems with 1up & gamevideos since I moved to Firefox. On IE, it would never load :\.
Aruarian Reflection
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As long as GameTrailers is around, any other game video site is redundant.
I had a lot of problems with gamevideos.com before. The starting image of every video when streaming (I think it's the gamevideos logo) would stay on top of the video even when I played it. It was weird, because along the edges of the overlaying image I could see the video moving, but I couldn't get rid of the image on top of it. I tried everything to fix this but to no avail.
And I don't know why, but some weeks ago it suddenly worked fine. I don't generally care for streaming though, because there's often issues with buffering and crap like that. Also, I guess those issues are more prominent for me in this particular case, not living in the US.
Anyway, it's an OK site, I don't see it offering anything special for me that would make me choose gamevideos before gametrailers though. Maybe the youtube-like community aspect is fun for some people. I basically go to the site if it's linked to at GAF for particular videos. Download speeds are decent, but recently the downloads haven't been working, as mentioned before in this thread. Nice to see it being fixed though.
And I don't know why, but some weeks ago it suddenly worked fine. I don't generally care for streaming though, because there's often issues with buffering and crap like that. Also, I guess those issues are more prominent for me in this particular case, not living in the US.
Anyway, it's an OK site, I don't see it offering anything special for me that would make me choose gamevideos before gametrailers though. Maybe the youtube-like community aspect is fun for some people. I basically go to the site if it's linked to at GAF for particular videos. Download speeds are decent, but recently the downloads haven't been working, as mentioned before in this thread. Nice to see it being fixed though.
MarkMacD said:Wow, really? I couldn't disagree more, that site is awesome and my favoritest!
...seriously, (I work there, btw) apologies for those who have any tech problems. We have top men working on it round the clock. Top men.
No offense, but gamevideos has been around for a year now - these problems should've been fixed a very long time ago.
I don't like how websites hide behind the "beta" tag excuse either.
KyanMehwulfe
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The whole site network is ugly and slow. "WTB Revamp" imo. The 1UP Show has earned it.
The site gets way too much hate, so I'm reluctant to pile on, but ever since the new player and site revision, I get alot of what I guess I'd describe as disconnects during streaming.
I usually pause when the video starts playing to allow a little extra buffering and prevent the hiccups, so that might be my problem, but often at around 75% of completion, the video will just stop as if it's reached it's end, and there doesn't seem to be any way to resume without reloading the whole video.
Again, not trying to bang on the gamevideo guys' heads about it, just thought I'd throw that in for whatever it's worth instead of the less productive "this site sucks" commentary....
I usually pause when the video starts playing to allow a little extra buffering and prevent the hiccups, so that might be my problem, but often at around 75% of completion, the video will just stop as if it's reached it's end, and there doesn't seem to be any way to resume without reloading the whole video.
Again, not trying to bang on the gamevideo guys' heads about it, just thought I'd throw that in for whatever it's worth instead of the less productive "this site sucks" commentary....
MarkMacD said:Wow, really? I couldn't disagree more, that site is awesome and my favoritest!
...seriously, (I work there, btw) apologies for those who have any tech problems. We have top men working on it round the clock. Top men.
The problem was right under your nose and you didn't even see it.
You've got all these top men, but no bottom men.
edit: Since you guys are reading, the front page for this site sucks. There needs to be more video links, suggestions should be viewable outside the player, and there just isn't enough content visible at one time.
Now make it snappy.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Both sites work okay for me. That ad with the guy in orange is annoying as hell though.
Open Source
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bud said:
Toughcheigh.
Pimpwerx said:
Don't give them ideas
Seriously though, gametrailers is better then most gaming pay sites, I'm routinely impressed with what they accomplish while still managing to remain free.
Gamevideos on the other hand... is horrible, streaming never works for me, the website is too cluttered and bunched up, its difficult to intuitively navigate the site and finally the downloads only work 50% of the time for me.
JonathanEx
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Blimblim said:
Don't worry, you know we all love you too~
Infernal Monkey
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I have no troubles with gamevideos, and I'm on shitty slow Aussie broadband. IGN's the real hell hole for me, takes like 10 minutes to stream a minute of footage.
IGN's the real hell hole for me, takes like 10 minutes to stream a minute of footage.platypotamus
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ram said:
I guess now is as close of an opportunity as I'm going to get to ask this question and have it be on topic:
what codec do I need to make the gametrailers videos not have their colors all ridiculously messed up. Their videos all look like they went through some sort of 80s colored puke.