Codeproject Feature Request
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
Speaking of which, is there a way to save images from the Vista window thumbnail API? Better yet, has anyone made a screen cap app that uses it? Because the apps out there right now get really slow with medium sized windows even on my Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz, whether Aero's on or off or I'm on XP or Vista. I say hold off on the videos idea until there's a decent screen cap app that we can all like. Just so that people don't jump to the conclusion that the idea sucks.
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
You still can achieve this by hosting your tutorial video provided you have the ownership of the content. There are video hosting websites like Google Video/Google YouTube where you can upload the video and then using the embed code in your article. However, please verify with submit (at) codeproject.com on whether you are allowed to use Video Tutorials in your articles and it is within the Terms of Service and End User Agreement of a CodeProject Membership. However, a quick read of Terms of Use (http://www.codeproject.com/info/TermsOfUse.aspx[^]) has the following lines of text
"If your material has been previously published, that publisher may have rights, and if so, you must obtain all consents before posting on The Code Project. If your material contains images, audio, or video, we require that you have obtained consents from all persons depicted, seen, or heard, the owners of any places depicted, and any other rights holders."From the CodeProject's perspective, I also foresee a little to more implementation difficulties at least with respect to video content since CP Team now has bring a DMCA Team to monitor content for any infringements. I did a quick research on DMCA and a quick note about it can be found here: [www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf -](http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf -) [[^](http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf - "New Window")]Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson -
You still can achieve this by hosting your tutorial video provided you have the ownership of the content. There are video hosting websites like Google Video/Google YouTube where you can upload the video and then using the embed code in your article. However, please verify with submit (at) codeproject.com on whether you are allowed to use Video Tutorials in your articles and it is within the Terms of Service and End User Agreement of a CodeProject Membership. However, a quick read of Terms of Use (http://www.codeproject.com/info/TermsOfUse.aspx[^]) has the following lines of text
"If your material has been previously published, that publisher may have rights, and if so, you must obtain all consents before posting on The Code Project. If your material contains images, audio, or video, we require that you have obtained consents from all persons depicted, seen, or heard, the owners of any places depicted, and any other rights holders."From the CodeProject's perspective, I also foresee a little to more implementation difficulties at least with respect to video content since CP Team now has bring a DMCA Team to monitor content for any infringements. I did a quick research on DMCA and a quick note about it can be found here: [www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf -](http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf -) [[^](http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf - "New Window")]Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis LevinsonExactly. YouTube is one ofthe expert at hosting video contents, why should CP invest into something outside their core competency if they can aggregate from someone who does it better? Besides, I am here for the articles, not pimply, stuttering, overly excited, squeaky-geeky videos. Sorry for the stereotypes, but I think a useful video takes a lot of work and dedication, and I simply don't want to see shoddy videos made "because you can add one". OTOH, It might give CP an(other) edge, and I am just to imparient for videos. (god! 4:30 of sitting still, just consuming!)
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
Yes! Video! Reading a few articles people post here often, I'd love to see some videos they'd make!
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
If you just want to throw in a PowerPoint, you could use slideshare.net[^] and paste the embed code in your article. Allows you to add audio narration too.
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Yes! Video! Reading a few articles people post here often, I'd love to see some videos they'd make!
I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
"I don't now Y stupid site says video to short!!!!! so I post sum of britney"
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
Personally videos I feel are alright introductions into completely new techniques / technologies for people. However I personally am not a great fan of them because it "requires" you to sit through the whole video. An article I can skim through and jump to the relevant sections. Perhaps it's just because there are a far greater number of people who can write good articles than those who can produce good videos. I'm not criticising the idea, just expressing my views. So far the only person I have found who can pull of "talking" to teach programming so to speak very well (and that I enjoy) is Scott Hanselman[^] But then again I haven't looked through that many videos...
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Exactly. YouTube is one ofthe expert at hosting video contents, why should CP invest into something outside their core competency if they can aggregate from someone who does it better? Besides, I am here for the articles, not pimply, stuttering, overly excited, squeaky-geeky videos. Sorry for the stereotypes, but I think a useful video takes a lot of work and dedication, and I simply don't want to see shoddy videos made "because you can add one". OTOH, It might give CP an(other) edge, and I am just to imparient for videos. (god! 4:30 of sitting still, just consuming!)
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistAgreed. There is also the consideration that this entails seeing many CPians "in the flesh" for the first time, which is quite a scary thought.
'Howard
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We've done this once already and are happy to keep experimenting.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
happy to keep experimenting
i wished my better half was of the same mindset....
Small angry dogs
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Personally videos I feel are alright introductions into completely new techniques / technologies for people. However I personally am not a great fan of them because it "requires" you to sit through the whole video. An article I can skim through and jump to the relevant sections. Perhaps it's just because there are a far greater number of people who can write good articles than those who can produce good videos. I'm not criticising the idea, just expressing my views. So far the only person I have found who can pull of "talking" to teach programming so to speak very well (and that I enjoy) is Scott Hanselman[^] But then again I haven't looked through that many videos...
Ed.Poore wrote:
because it "requires" you to sit through the whole video. An article I can skim through and jump to the relevant sections.
And more ... (*) Acutely high demand of bandwidth and CPU usage for the server. (*) More bandwidth demands for the user. And if the user drags the slider here and there, the Media Player should be smart in adjusting the position too seamlessly.
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson -
You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
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LionsMouth.Insert();{ I took the plunge and did a series of videos on Mole v4. The link to them is on Mole v4 article. I have had outstanding response to this. I have 4 up there now and will do a few more when my cold is better. Cough, cough, sneeze. I plan to provide a link to a video for most of my future articles. I know that everyone in the Lounge reads the fine print on every article, but just in case the reader is from the video generation, I'll provide a short informative video on the articles key concepts. I thought about embedding it, but it takes up a good amount of vertical space and sometimes 2 seconds for the preview image to appear. Don't want to slow down viewers for any reason. }LionsMouth.Remove();Glad I got out of that alive, :cool:Cheers, KarlMy Blog | Mole's Home Page | Choosing WPF over ASP.NETJust a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.
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Personally videos I feel are alright introductions into completely new techniques / technologies for people. However I personally am not a great fan of them because it "requires" you to sit through the whole video. An article I can skim through and jump to the relevant sections. Perhaps it's just because there are a far greater number of people who can write good articles than those who can produce good videos. I'm not criticising the idea, just expressing my views. So far the only person I have found who can pull of "talking" to teach programming so to speak very well (and that I enjoy) is Scott Hanselman[^] But then again I haven't looked through that many videos...
I think I would actively avoid articles that had videos, as before long the trend would be for those articles to not have any real content in the article, and I wouldn't want to spend the time watching the video. A couple of images and the sample code should be enough if the article is written well. I speed-read with a high retention rate. Why would I want to spend 10 times as long absorbing the same information, and have to deal with accents, screen glare (some bonehead will use a video camera instead of video capture software), etc. Just give me the content without the flash, please.
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It would be great to watch old videos of people coding and see how coding is advancing over the years. See how peoples styles change and new thought processes. Ive had alot of people email me from my tutorials asking me to show them by example, but alot of my running examples are too complicated to post on a webpage. You know?
How difficult is it to show a head being pulled from one's ass? ;)
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
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It would be great to watch old videos of people coding and see how coding is advancing over the years. See how peoples styles change and new thought processes. Ive had alot of people email me from my tutorials asking me to show them by example, but alot of my running examples are too complicated to post on a webpage. You know?
Yes, would love to see the old hollerith punch card machines and an instructional video on how to use. NOT.
MrPlankton
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
You could always put a link in the article to a youtube.com video.
Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
:confused: I'm not sure I can handle seeing you ugly bum's faces! -- A great idea, if you solve the hosting problem.
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
I might be alone in this, but I hate having to view videos to get technical information. I can read the text of an article at about 200 words per minute, which far exceeds the information bandwidth of video or audio (which would be about 60 words per minute max). Do you really need to show people a video to teach them which buttons to click?