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Karel Bata
Junior Member
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 Posted - 04 March 2006 : 05:59:53
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I posted this in ForumCo's support forum, but thought it might also raise a smile here... 
- Ability to post a video within a topic.
- user definable poster frame
- Support for widths up to 480 (widescreen)
- An option for the user to enter how large (textMB) the movie is - ever sat there just waiting for a movie to load? Wondering if it ever will?
- a link to your local PCs file associations (if one player is proving troublesome, or is set wrong, the user can try another)
- Sub-forums
- the ability for the administrator to name the sub-forums box
- the ability for a user to set his first post as a sticky
- the ability to switch on/off the regular forums or sub-forums within a category thus leaving only forums or sub-forums running - I've seen forums with both running and it can be a little confusing
- Auto-moderation
- the first poster (creating a sub-forum) automatically becomes a local moderator
- the ability of the user to change the background color to complement the movie / other images they post
That'll keep you all busy. 
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Karel Bata
Junior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 March 2006 : 06:43:24
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"a link to your local PCs file associations"
Now i think about it that's kind of useless if you have no way of seeing what the troublesome file suffix is anyway. So, uh...
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-gary
Development Team Member
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Posted - 04 March 2006 : 11:40:21
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Everything with the video is actually very simple. If you take the uploads to your own server, you already know the size. If they give you a URL, use the XML component to request the file and get the size. Poster is as simple as adding a field for uploading along with the movie. It depends on the level of hosting of your forum if you have all the pieces you need.
Here's a shot of an attachment on my forum.
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Karel Bata
Junior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 March 2006 : 05:30:46
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Thanks Gary. That looks cool.
But what I had in mind was something more along the lines of www.break.com. There's already a bunch of guys here working on that, and I'm looking forward to seeing ForumCo (who host my current forum) give it a go. In my field, filmaking, it'll be extremely useful.
The other features would make it a killer!
And I can add one more:
- Allowing forum admins to upload a background picture rather than just a color, like the one here http://forums.afterdawn.com/ which is made up of lots of these:
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
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Posted - 06 March 2006 : 07:35:18
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Originally posted by -gary
Everything with the video is actually very simple.
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If they give you a URL, use the XML component to request the file and get the size.
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Gary, care to elaborate on that part ?  I'm verrrry interested!< |
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-gary
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Posted - 06 March 2006 : 09:55:42
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Originally posted by Karel Bata
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Thanks Gary. That looks cool.
But what I had in mind was something more along the lines of www.break.com. There's already a bunch of guys here working on that, and I'm looking forward to seeing ForumCo (who host my current forum) give it a go. In my field, filmaking, it'll be extremely useful.
I guss I misread, because I could've sworn that your first point was about sizing and poster framing an attached video. If you already have it, then why put it in a "dream forum" post?< |
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Karel Bata
Junior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 March 2006 : 15:26:29
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Because it's not there yet, and is still being shaped, and I thought other folk would be interested / amused in what an 'end user' (me  ) thought was important to him.
In addition I thought it might prompt some other 'my dream forum' posts. < |
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