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There's a very interesting new feature here at xplsv.tv: video embedding!

If you love a movie and want to demonstrate publicly, just grab the embed code in the movie page and paste it in your homepage :-)

For example, here are two demos I love:

Isn't it cool? :)

We did a quick visit to NetAudio London on Friday; it was also the first time I went to Angel, and it's way posher than I thought (I was kind of expecting a devastated party area with lots of alternative artists and Bansky-was-here or Mind-you-this-is-not-a-Bansky everywhere, like Old Street).

And after that and some well-deserved eight hours of sleep, came an intensive week-end with xplsv.tv - but we are still not finished with it. I thought we were going to advance more but I was wrong.
So far, most of the work I've done is focused on the motion management. Apart from refactoring lots of code, I have fixed a couple of little bugs, some serious ones, and also added some little enhacements which I believe every artist in xplsv.tv will love when we move these changes to the live server, as they increase the usability of the motion management area.

It's been really delicious to replace all the "rude error messages with an exclamation mark at the end" with something a bit more human and nicer. By the way, I still don't understand why did I enter all the messages like that, and I don't understand either why most of the non-english native speakers tend to write errors messages in that very manner. To my disgust, I have noticed it repeatedly these last months; maybe it has to do with the fact that (luckily) my english level has improved (or that I think).
Some examples:

• You must enter the title of the motion! becomes Please enter a title for the motion
• You must be the creator of the work! becomes Please confirm you're allowed to publish the motion here

Obviously if you're an artist in xplsv.tv and have any suggestion, you're more than welcome. (I could put funnier messages, like Hey dude, do not forget the title! but I am trying to be serious :D ).

I also experienced one of the joys of refactoring: things work better with less lines of code. I love that.
Meanwhile, mr.doob was working in the motiongraphics TV, and he made live a new version of the tv. Now you can resize it to suit your tastes - and this has made him feel the desperate urge to encode again the videos so that they have a better resolution. And if you like the new TV, do not forget to vote for it at digg! (yeah, let's do a bit of self-promotion, just for once ;) )

As a big fan of Space Invaders, I can't stop linking to the real story! Extremely funny… I don't know if it's Miguex's work or he's just linking to a YouTube video. In any case, the music by Ken Ishii really fits the images.

From the Accent blog.

Following (or inspired by) Madgoblin's to do list…, no strict priority order:

• fix more bugs and add more features to xplsv.tv
• learn more about vj'ing
• do more lives (vj + music)
• experimental vj live
• really learn ruby + rails
• improve my english
• learn how to play with my new keyboard
• compose another EP for roterfleck netlabel (I have the concept and one song)
• finish blue tuesday (just will need to finish a new scene and polish and clean everything a bit) done
  
• do a demo for mac (hence use the new code for mac & pc)  done with tube by xplsv
• fr…o demo (featuring madgoblin)
• secret demoscene project, number 1 was tube demo by xplsv (done)
  
• secret demoscene project, number 2
• music for tlotb experimental demo (will be the definitive challenge, either do it or die on it!)
• create video versions of my demos and add them as motions to xplsv.tv done
  
• adapt my events list implementation to the new code, including the impulse tracker exporter
• port ppg demos to mac (current blue tuesday code works on mac and pc)
• finish tlotb web
• add tags to all elements in my home page (that means restoring back the photos, demos, gfx and txt sections)
• play with flash8 and see what can be done
• go to breakpoint06 and release something decent there (and I already have the tickets!!)
• learn more standard, usable and accessible web techniques (or be more web2.0)
• read more books
• finish the almost finished songs that I have floating around my hard disk for more than 5 years now
• do more food experiments (but stop eating so many sweets)
• help sin with his demoscene search engine (salmiakki)
• help sml with his demoscene divulgation projects (scene school & related projects)
• stop doing to do lists, and get things done! :)

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!!!!