MetaTalk posts tagged with video

Help me see this youtube video in Canada.

If only I had a penguin... — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:43:51 -0800

The youtube video in this FPP is not available in my country (Canada) due to copyright restrictions. I've watched it before and would like to watch it again. Can someone either point me to it somewhere else online where it might work (maybe on youtube at another account), or at least tell me the proper title or some info I can use to search myself? Thanks.

MeFight Club Fright-lu-ween invitations

boo_radley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:07:27 -0800

Greeting from Mefight Club! Come play with us on this special weekend! The madmen at Valve are having a special weekend of Halloween themed excitement, achievements and hats. Come over to the MeFight Club (run by MetaFilter's Own™ stavrosthewonderchicken and have fun with all of the regulars (and irregulars) over the weekend. Server information: Name: [MeFi] We Have Sentries - a public MeFi server Type: Team Fortress 2 IP: 8.9.15.132:27015

SearchFu: guy flies into a pool.

scalefree — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:21:58 -0800

There was a recent post of a video where a guy slides down the side of a hill, launches off a ramp & lands in a pool. I'm usually pretty good at this but my search-fu is failing me & I can't find it. Help?

A year in the making..

mediocre — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:38:21 -0800

Punch 'Em In The Dick video finally completed! In the interest of avoiding self-linking conflicts I won't put this in the blue, but if some other kind soul wants to link to MetaFilters most popular song ever finally getting the much-requested video treatment I certainly won't object..

Looking for a post on Metafilter, probably from around 2000 or so, about a guy who wrote a piece of software to slice up video in real time to make songs

RustyBrooks — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:49:27 -0800

Looking for a post on Metafilter, probably from around 2000 or so, about a guy who wrote a piece of software to slice up video in real time to make songs I've tried a lot of search terms with no real luck. Basically you'd feed it a bunch of video clips, and then in real time you'd say or sing something into a mic, and after a sec it would show you a series of cut-up video clips that sort of mimiced what you said. There was a video (videos) of it being demonstrated and I think also footage of the creator at a conference. I sort of vaguely remember it having "hacks" or something like that in the name. It's driving me nuts!

Should people posting videos to Metafilter watch the whole thing first?

Nelson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:24:10 -0800

Should people posting videos to Metafilter watch the whole thing first? Buried in his Dog's Life video post, the original poster makes an astonishing admission

I didn't watch it all the way through or even in one go, but some bits of it are neat and some aren't, that is all.

Is that bad form? I continue to be a bit bummed by all the single link YouTube posts and silly college videos and such. It's not what I love best about Metafilter, but I'll get over it. But it never occurred to me someone would post a link to a short video they hadn't even watched. PS: my first callout thread. I'm ashamed.

Scrabble Breakup Video...where is it?

milestogo — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:55:40 -0800

What was that video where an (old?) couple communicated through scrabble word placement? It was a short YouTube video. I'm fairly sure I saw it on Metafilter, but can't find it now. There was muisc, but no speaking. The man and woman communicated only through putting out different scrabble words. I think they were breaking up. Thanks!

MetaMovies

ageispolis — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:34:23 -0800

The Future of MeFiMusic: Video? Hello there. I'm inquiring into the possibility of incorporating video into MeFiMusic at some point in the foreseeable future. I understand video files are substantially larger than mp3s, and excuse my utter lack of computer knowledge, but is there a way to process them down the way YouTube does? I know MetaFilter's bandwith resources are significantly limited to that of an interweb empire like YouTube's, but it'd be neat to put moving faces to the moving music of our recording mefites. I can see this working with AskMeFi as well, allowing members to record little videos of themselves asking questions and demonstrating their queries with additional visual support. "Can I make a wedding ring from this?" "Should I wear this red dress or this green dress to my dreaded High School reunion?" "What the hell is this weird rash on my ass?" Reading through the questions on AskMeFi, I can see that many of them would benefit from a feature of this sort. Be that as it may, I see the contra argument as well, for who in their right mind wants to see an assrash. Regardless, am I in the realm of MeFantasy here? If it's impossible to actualize today, is this something we may see in say, three years from now?

Hiccup with embedded YouTube player thingy

Mister_A — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:17:31 -0800

"Video player" link to UK YouTube doesn't work. However, the regular link that opens up a YouTube tab works just fine. I tried this with another YouTube link (not UK YouTube though) and no problem. Some facts: I am in the US&A. Mac OS 10.5.3 FF 3.0.1

Meh.

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:07:05 -0800

Perhaps this does not belong on the front page. Grainy, sensationalist video footage of someone having a violent nervous breakdown does not make for a decent Metafilter post, in terms of quality or subject matter, though this might do just fine on another site. Perhaps the post could be removed, to make room for better posts?

Where everybody knows your name...

eurasian — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:49:12 -0800

Team Fortress 2 Metafilter Server So you're on the least aggravating public server, trying to avoid the porn sprays, the sailor talk (and I'm not talking nautical), and ear-cleaving yells that someone has indeed, owned you; not only because you are newer to the game than he, but because your sexual orientation is something he fears and denigrates. You might think to yourself. Well, a few things. 1) I wonder if there is a nice cozy server that's all passworded up the wazoo with 128 bit encryption to keep me safe from the unwashed masses? 2) Wouldn't it be nice to make a snide comment on the server about Edgar Rice Burroughs only to be rebuked in a style best described as Irate Lovecraftian. 3) Where have all the friendly people gone? Do they no longer play video games? Are they holed up play Settlers of Catan or Risk or some other highly geeky yet ultimately socially unacceptable game? They might even be fans of Diplomacy. Or, Ganesha forbid, Go. 4) Give me a place where I can call home. Where people do silly things for silly reasons, and every so often, they actually have serious games where the TEAM in Team Fortress actually means something. 5) Damn games to heck, I just want to be able to rub cyber shoulders with Stavros the Wonderchicken! That DaShiv guy! Or that fellow who made that short lived but ever amusing HL2 comic, "Concerned". GIVE ME E-CELEBRITY OR GIVE ME DEATH! Well, we have the place for you. herr.doktor and Stavros the Chicken and some others I'm sure I've missed has amassed their internets, weaving together the series of tubes to create a veritable basket of gaming goodness! A metafilter member only TF2 server! Password protected! With like, set game nights! Tournaments! PRIZES! And, most holiest of holies, a FORUM TO BLATHER INCESSANTLY ABOUT MEDIC CHANGES! So come on over, we don't bite. Hard.

Ancient MeFi Octopus Post Update

stefnet — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:46:50 -0800

Back in 2003, I posted a link to a video that showed an octopus transforming itself to look like its surroundings. If you read the thread, there was some doubt about it and I think we all wished that web video was better at the time. Well, a friend posted a link to a TED talk recently that shows this same octopus at a much higher resolution. I would have updated the original thread, but, well, it was 2003.

Embedding YouTube in [more inside]

carsonb — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:02:23 -0800

Bug/Feature Expansion Request: YouTube links in MetaFilter's [more inside] don't display the optional embed icon. It's been brought up recently on MetaTalk that YouTube linkdumps are possibly better formatted using [more inside]. I mentioned this issue at the time, but got no response from admin. It would be great if (for those of us who have the option checked) links to videos on YouTube in the [more inside] got the embed option too. Please if there's been discussion on this topic before or a reason given previously for NO do point me that way. I'm also curious what everyone thinks about YouTube linkdump posts. Don't forget to mention how much you love and/or hate them, or if you couldn't give Ratt's ass either way (bonus points for being creatively sardonic).

who was that guy, the one with the plane...?

jessamyn — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:58:33 -0800

UpdateFilter: while I was waiting in line for an iPhone with my friend yesterday (for him not for me) I was catching up on a little work. I was showing my friend the MeFi admin interface and someone looked over my shoulder and said "is that MetaFilter?" I said yes, was he a member? He said no but a video that he had made got linked on MeFi last February and had catapulted him to mini-stardom for a few weeks. He gave me some backstory on the movie....

video embedding (flash)

acro — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:20:27 -0800

The new flash media player from Jeroen Wijering can show mp3s, SWF and FLV video, photos and RSS/XSPF/ATOM playlists. Should MetaFilter allow FPPs to use this? Are inline video comments/playlists a feature to avoid?

suicide video link

null terminated — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:47:32 -0800

This comment links to a video of a real life suicide without warning (other than "I'm a terrible person"). Normally I'd flag this and move on, but this is possibly the worst thing I've ever seen on metafilter and I'd like to see it deleted as quickly as possible.

New stuff on MeFi.

mathowie — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:33:19 -0800

I finally fixed this, I gussied up the preferences page (more readable, easier to use), and I added inline magical youtube video streaming, which mostly works (enable it then click the icons you see on posts). Full explanation of the YouTube feature.

VideoFilter Debate: Take 42

aladfar — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:57:15 -0800

VideoFilter Debate: Take 42 - I like Tom Waits. A lot. But YouTube and a link to Wikipedia? Hardly the best of the web.

Video maker comments

OmieWise — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:52:22 -0800

This thread, which starts with a YouTube link to a video made by an autistic woman, was fascinating in it's own right, but now has a long comment added by the maker of the video.

MacSaber makes Gizmodo's Top 5 Hacker Vids

juv3nal — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:04:40 -0800

MacSaber makes Gizomodo's Top 5 Hacker (?) Vids.

Playing time of video in superscript? Annoying!

chunking express — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:17:09 -0800

Is this the first time someone has linked to videos with the playing time in superscript? Am I the only one who finds it really annoying?

Content creators sign on to comment

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:12:16 -0800

Bob and Bri (wtcbpc) sign up to respond to the thread about the 9/11 footage they shot and recently put online.

How do I search for video links?

bigmusic — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:25:22 -0800

Is there a good way to search for video links? It seems that so many have been posted and it's hard to tell from the context of a post what the video is about if they aren't discribed completely. Something that would make it easy to ensure that you are posting a unique video link would be very helpful.

One link video posts?

the giant pill — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:56:15 -0800

It seems to be acceptable to post videos with just one link now, but can we get some clarification on what makes a video a good video to post? For example, what makes this video a good FPP?

Star Wars Kid, Redux

karmaville — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:55:21 -0800

As an update to this thread. Thanks Matt, for making me laugh yet again.