[Bf-webcontent] Watching videos

[Johan Ekström]

2013/11/23 Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> On November 23, 2013 at 11:06:15 AM, Gerard Maguire (
> nexial.protagonist at googlemail.com <//nexial.protagonist at googlemail.com>)
> wrote:
>
> Leaving the page and viewing the videos in YouTube is not ideal.
> Are there any bandwidth issues for running videos "on the page" ?
>
> Yes, embedding multiple YT videos slows down the page a lot.
>
>
> On 23 November 2013 09:06, Johan Ekström <anuga at anuga.se> wrote:
>
> And then add a Shadowbox / Lightbox (js, jquery) to the page for
>> displaying the videos, it adds that the cool overlay effect that Nkansah
>> suggested.
>
> Feel free to add the code for this and make a pull request on github.
>
> Francesco
>
Added shadowbox to the code, but to add it to the link's (to the images and
videos) Andrew or someone with Editorial Rights must add = rel="shadowbox"
to the links.

E.X. : <a href="/just/a/link" rel="shadowbox">just a link</a>
E.X. : <a href="/just/a/link" rel="shadowbox"><img src="/just/a/image.jpg"
/></a>

/ Anuga


>>
>>
>> On Saturday, November 23, 2013, Elijah Salberg wrote:
>>
>>> Yes! That is exactly what I was thinking. I think every 3d software
>>> except Blender has videos showing the features.
>>> Perhaps Andrew Price or Jonathan Williamson could make the features
>>> videos.
>>> Doesn't really matter who, though. So long as someone does.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:50 PM, "David Haymond" <
>>> haymondtechnologies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally, I think that the Blender Foundation should create a series
>>> of short (<3 minutes) videos on each subject, with a professional style,
>>> onscreen graphics, and recorded by the same person. That would greatly aid
>>> the unity of the features page. As it stands right now, the videos link to
>>> all kinds of videos from many different authors...bad idea.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Gerard Maguire <
>>> nexial.protagonist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On the features page the simulations video has this text beneath it on
>>>> you tube. "Neither Blender's internal render engine nor Yafaray
>>>> produced acceptable results, so I decided to use LuxRender in unbiased MLT
>>>> mode."  This would seem to imply that one of the Blender features is
>>>> inadequate. Does anyone consider this to be appropriate ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 22 November 2013 22:55, Gerard Maguire <
>>>> nexial.protagonist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to suggest that a review of the videos on the features
>>>>> page takes place as soon as is possible. As an example, the video about
>>>>> compositor is over an hour in length.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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