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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"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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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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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!

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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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Originally posted by -gary
Everything with the video is actually very simple.
... 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!<

Originally posted by Karel Bata

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?<

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. <