How to watch the Videos. I am run Firefox on Linux. When I click on the videos, it tries to search for a plugin which fails.
At least provide the plugin at a reasonable place.
I think that Firefox is broken if it cannot display movies supposed to promote its usage.
Do you believe that only Mac users are able to make good promotional videos, and people using Linux and Windows are not to be solicited.
How about providing some alternate video formats too for Linux and Windows.
I was thinking of downloading these videos and showing it to other people here. But well, I guess I am just bitter that I cannot even see these videos.
If you’re running Ubuntu Dapper, be sure to have “totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin” installed. It worked for me (but if you’re not running dapper, beware it’s still a test version)
Otherwise,look for the words “plugin” “firefox” in your application manager.
I am confused by you default sorting on the View Flicks page… “Most Popular”.
Is this “Most Popular” in your opinion? It seams like it is just the order they were loaded on the site. If that is the case this field could be named a little better, don’t you think? I have checked the site several times and the default order “Most Popular” never changes. You think it would reflect who has received the most votes, most views… etc.
Might I suggest you use “Newest” or “Highest Rating” for the default setting. I am sure anything that can change is better than an unchanging order named “Most Popular”
The videos play fine for me in Linux with mplayer and xine. They plays mpeg4 Quicktime files without a problem. However, it seems that the mplayer plugin has a couple issues playing the file when it’s embedded in the page. The file will buffer and load, but it tanks after the first few frames. I actually have to download the file locally (click the download button or copy the location from HTML source) and play it with mplayer. My guess is that it has something to do with scaling the embedded video, but I’m not totally sure.
At any rate, the 6 that are up there look like they were great fun to make. I can’t wait to see the rest of them.
What surprises me most about this contest is even though I only run FireFox I had no idea there was a contest. Just happen to see a link at one of those funny sites. How many more fans have not been allowed to get creative simply because we were never notified. What a loss. Just an observation.
I can’t actually view the Firefox ads in Firefox on my Suse Linux laptop. In my Firefox browser, the Firefox “Plugin Finder Service” tells me “No suitable plugins were found”. I thought it must be pretty dense of the contributers to submit something to an open source project in a semi-proprietary format. Then I looked at the submittal guidelines. Kind of seems that it would have made more sense to require the ads to be in a universally playable format, like AVI or MPEG-2.
This is truly ridiculous and really unfair to financial contributers (me) and to the artistic contributers whose work is not readily viewable in some Firefox browsers. I think you should seriously consider converting the format of these videos.
April 13th, 2006 at 12:49 am
How to watch the Videos. I am run Firefox on Linux. When I click on the videos, it tries to search for a plugin which fails.
At least provide the plugin at a reasonable place.
I think that Firefox is broken if it cannot display movies supposed to promote its usage.
Do you believe that only Mac users are able to make good promotional videos, and people using Linux and Windows are not to be solicited.
How about providing some alternate video formats too for Linux and Windows.
I was thinking of downloading these videos and showing it to other people here. But well, I guess I am just bitter that I cannot even see these videos.
April 13th, 2006 at 5:21 am
If you’re running Ubuntu Dapper, be sure to have “totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin” installed. It worked for me (but if you’re not running dapper, beware it’s still a test version)
Otherwise,look for the words “plugin” “firefox” in your application manager.
April 13th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Dear Asa,
I am confused by you default sorting on the View Flicks page… “Most Popular”.
Is this “Most Popular” in your opinion? It seams like it is just the order they were loaded on the site. If that is the case this field could be named a little better, don’t you think? I have checked the site several times and the default order “Most Popular” never changes. You think it would reflect who has received the most votes, most views… etc.
Might I suggest you use “Newest” or “Highest Rating” for the default setting. I am sure anything that can change is better than an unchanging order named “Most Popular”
Thanks.
April 13th, 2006 at 11:24 am
I have to agree with Sam, I was confused too (and still am).
April 13th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
…aahh…. WHEEEEEEEEEE!!
April 13th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
The videos play fine for me in Linux with mplayer and xine. They plays mpeg4 Quicktime files without a problem. However, it seems that the mplayer plugin has a couple issues playing the file when it’s embedded in the page. The file will buffer and load, but it tanks after the first few frames. I actually have to download the file locally (click the download button or copy the location from HTML source) and play it with mplayer. My guess is that it has something to do with scaling the embedded video, but I’m not totally sure.
At any rate, the 6 that are up there look like they were great fun to make. I can’t wait to see the rest of them.
April 13th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Asa,
I think you should add a general blog onto the site, so people have a forum that is not a part of any 1 individiual video.
Aaron
April 14th, 2006 at 5:30 am
So there is only 6 flicks? :(
April 14th, 2006 at 6:13 am
Some nice Flicks though, good work!
April 14th, 2006 at 7:03 am
WHEEE! is hilarious! Great browser depictions…
April 14th, 2006 at 8:41 am
What surprises me most about this contest is even though I only run FireFox I had no idea there was a contest. Just happen to see a link at one of those funny sites. How many more fans have not been allowed to get creative simply because we were never notified. What a loss. Just an observation.
April 14th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
I can’t actually view the Firefox ads in Firefox on my Suse Linux laptop. In my Firefox browser, the Firefox “Plugin Finder Service” tells me “No suitable plugins were found”. I thought it must be pretty dense of the contributers to submit something to an open source project in a semi-proprietary format. Then I looked at the submittal guidelines. Kind of seems that it would have made more sense to require the ads to be in a universally playable format, like AVI or MPEG-2.
This is truly ridiculous and really unfair to financial contributers (me) and to the artistic contributers whose work is not readily viewable in some Firefox browsers. I think you should seriously consider converting the format of these videos.
April 19th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
why does firefoxflicks.com only support quicktime video, which turns out, is only supported on mac or win?
what about us *nix users?