xplsv.tv: motiongraphics tv is not beta anymore!!
It's been a very loooong time since we released first version of xplsv.tv. At that moment, it lacked lots of features, and other were not very well defined - we learnt by seeing what the users did and asked for.
In a given moment, trace (or mr.doob) decided to change from the winamp tv stream that we had to a flash based solution. This one was better and easier for the system maintenance as we didn't had to ask anyone at cdmon (our kind sponsors, after our other kind sponsor scenesp) to run a dedicated process for streaming the motions. Now it's just the client computer the one which requests flash video movies (FLV's) to the server. And those are simple http requests.
Also, the support for flash is much better than the winamp video plug in - which was just available on windows platform, at least on that moment. That way (by using flash) we had a legion of mac users being able to enjoy the TV too! no more complaints from jealous apple users… which are a big mass in the motion graphics creators population, by the way.
So there he went coding and improving the tv flash player. And finally yesterday he finished it, and I am very proud to announce it here too: motiongraphics tv is not beta anymore! - specially in this forever beta trend which is disperse all around the world wide web :)
I am very happy and would like to thank everyone which has been using xplsv.tv and has not sent me a threatening e-mail each time they found any bug or error in the php code, as it's been mostly my fault by ignorance. Work in the existing (and upcoming) features is in progress and I hope to provide some nice (whether it is new or improved) functionality in the following months. Thanks to all!!!!
sml
20051222
Congrats!
I know I would contribute more to it, at least watching the TV and commenting the motions and I have no real excuses.
It's quite difficult to me watching the online TV at work/home, even though the system works really well. But it's the same with films, shorts or long texts, I don't have enough time to concentrate on it during all the time :(
So I have to respect our effort, and I've a note on my to do list to review the motions, watch the TV, use the portal and spread all of them. So, time to time!
Keep up the good work!
sole
20051222
The great merit is trace's work!! Congrat him!! :D
I just made some buggy php :-S
shine
20051222
Congrats tb!
Y ademas viendo que el portal es cada dia mas conocido y usado :D
sml
20051223
My congrats were for everybody involved, I know what part every of you have made :)
sml
20051223
blaeh, my english sucks XD
sole
20051223
i've seen things much worse… and mine sucks too :D
Liso
20051223
worse things? are you talking about me?