Guess it'll go here, but I have a suggestion/idea that'll help me out a lot.
So while I have a lot of categories, I basically review a new film every week and I have monthly updates where I talk about site stuff for that month, news for that week, and then there's stuff where I cover things in parts. However, with so many technical difficulties, school, life and someone stealing my computer with months of work, Iv'e gotten behind on my video schedule by a whole year. If you look on my site, there was a video posted in October and one in Janurary of 2012. Right now, I'm moving forward with what's current, however, to keep things organized and chronological. I don't want to upload any new vids until Iv'e posted ones before them first so that the list is in the correct of time/date/film review etc. Even when I come close to finishing, Iv'e stepped back from uploading it because I don't want them all scrambled. However, I could continue uploading videos, and slowly over time, catch up and just scheduale the entry back to when it was first supposed to be uploaded. It's helped a lot with blogs and I'm able to move forward while catching up at the same time, thanks all to the scheduling option. Since there's the option for blogs. Is there any possibility that in the near future, Spruz might be able to add that option for videos as well? At least only for #9 super site admins? I'm paying like the middle plan I think, so it could come with that plan that I'm paying, maybe not even for free sites. The freedom of choosing dates works a lot for news sites, and review sites. The New York Times website was able to post 200 years worth of news onto their site because of the scheduling entry option. Look at the entry date for this blog: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D02E6DD1338E233A25752C3A9669D94639ED7CF 1892? They didn't even have internet back then. If you go to Roger Ebert's website, all his old written reviews for movies from the 80's were posted within the last 10 years, but because of the scheduling option, their dates match those of the movies he reviews. Youtube's website shows that some videos were uploaded 43 years ago lol. Only difference is I need to catch up on videos. Plus, it just looks uneven and stocked when, even if I uploaded them in chronological order, for example, you see a video talking about an event in June 2012 with predictions for July, but with an upload date of January 2013. Hopefully, you get what I'm saying. Thankfully, I'm only behind by a year, not 200 years like the NY times, so if this could get passed around. That would be awesome. Iv'e just had some vid difficulties and had to put this out there. Thanks so much for reading. I hope it gets considered as an add-on.
Oh and I embed videos from other sites, so Spruz's video duration sensor is unable to pick up a duration for any of my videos the same way it can't pick up a thumbnail. So all my videos awkwardly have a "duration" info thing with no duration. I don't think I can remove it (I would if I could though, then there wouldn't be a problem), so if there was a way I can manually put the duration the same way I manually upload a thumbnail, that would be convenient. I'm not trying to think of just me, I imagine there's a lot of Spruz sites that embed videos from Facebook, Dailymotion, Yahoo etc. and have that problem with the duration too.
Oh and last thing, sorry I know I had a bunch, but if you notice the link colors (Video Title and Uploader Name) are the same as the text colors (white). Same with every other Spruz site, I know they're bold, but is there a way to make the links in the video elements the same color as the other links? #8bb9e0
Ok, that's it, thanks a million. If you're a fellow Spruz site owner who supports these ideas. Feel free to reply or say you agree, so maybe the brilliant Spruz will look at these.
Wow! They had oil fires back then too, huh? Our group has been putting video links on Spruz and other hosted sites for a couple of years or more now. I'm not sure what all of your problems are, as I haven't looked at your site much.
Our experience is that nearly, if not all, video display issues on Spruz sites can be handled by one means or another. You might check out http://antigravity.spruz.com/videos.htm, and see how some of them come up or are arranged. You can also link directly to YouTube to get both their videos and the thumbs associated with them displayed in an HTML page. Go to http://springsteen-live.com/boss-wall.htm and check the source code to see how we displayed the YouTube links and thumbs in an HTML DOM.
The third party software which processes and assigns thumbs to your video display may not be aware where blip.tv stores its thumbs. YouTube stores them here: http://img.youtube.com/vi/IxuThNgl3YA/2.jpg. You will need to discover where the thumbs are if you are not getting them. Perhaps your video host can help.
Also, the colors for page elements on http://themcdougalbugle.com/blog.htm?b=&tagged=review have been set correctly by the Spruz style sheet style.css: #container .element-row1 {color: rgb(255,255,255); background-color: rgb(51,51,51); }, but something you have done has overridden that color-font scheme on your video pages.
Comment boxes div.SUI-CommentText, have white text on a white background making them very hard to read.
Also, I am using Flash Player: "You have version 11,5,502,146 installed" for Windows 7. The elapsed time is a function of Flash Player, and I have no problem seeing elapsed time. The duration is actually displayed in the frame of Flash itself.
I read all of your posts, but it's a bit like reading the Bible. I think I understand it, but I'm not completely sure. I think you might profit from reading a bit about the SWF API: YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters
Also: API Overview Guide most of your viewers will be using flash, some will be using the new HTML 5 to view, which could be problematic. We are just not sure yet. Also, if you want a video to autostart when the page comes up, this is how you do it:
The links in your videos box element are the same color of the text because you are using the "list" display style for it. That's nothing that you've done on your end to change the default, and it's simply how the list display style works. You can over ride it with some css.
This should work:
.SUI-VideoCard a{
color: #8bb9e0 !important;
}
to put the borders under each of those rows, first you'll want to get that elements unique id, and then add it into the code below:
UNIQUE ID HERE .SUI-VideoCard{
border-bottom: solid 1px black !important;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}
If the border doesn't line up quite how you like it, adjust the 15px padding to something else.
For the word "Duration" appearing when there isn't one given, you can report that in a support ticket and let Spruz have a look to see what is going on.
It makes it much easier to answer questions when they are done 1 topic at a time, and also allows them to be looked up by other people. Just a suggestion.
I didn't have the time on my last post to really look into the issue too deeply, but let's take another look. I assumed you had made changes that affected the text style of your video comments because:
No (sane) developer deliberately chooses to display white text on a white background.
The stock Spruz style for your site template was changed from the original.
The file which determines the default style for your template is imported as the Spruz style sheet, style.css. Scroll down the page of the style.css file until you come to the line beginning with:
td#content-cell determines the text and background style for almost every text box on your site on a global basis.
Looking at the gob of CSS above, we see that #content-cell text color is #F5F5F5, or light gray. Text is painted on a transparent background, with an underlying image, sectiontop.png.
Loading the video page, we see that the text in the comment boxes has changed from light gray to white, so the global default text color does not appear in comment box div.SUI-CommentText, but at this point we haven't pinpointed the source of the change. If you want to see the effect of changing the CSS for #content-cell, check http://ardent-webs.spruz.com/home.htm where everything has been set to white on powder blue.
You should either reprogram the text color, or select a more contrasty background for your video comments. Normally, the text would be painted on a dark opaque rectangle with the background image protruding at the edges for contrast.
Okay, I see what you mean by the duration issue. We never saw it because we never displayed Spruz videos in list mode. Instead, we programmed them as a list in an HTML page linked to YouTube directly, rather than through Spruz links.
The duration field seems to have disappeared. Perhaps Spruz removed it. I would just load a table of iframes linked directly to my video host in an HTML page..
