No Dom3 on Youtube?

[Endoperez]

While it would be nice to see battle replays, youtube quality is so low and the lack of controls hurts so much that it can be difficult to follow the battle even when you know what's happening.

Also, the videos shouldn't be about 50-turns-long battles with thousands of units. Troops just keep dying and dying, and that's not really interesting. A short battle that quickly ends in a show of superior magical powers would be nice. Preferably something with two-three different spells, so it's not just the same spell spammed 100 times. Something like Machaka throwing Blade Winds and Falling Fires and Magma Eruptions and such, and perhaps a Flaming Arrows too.

[Tifone]

Thanks for the link, that's a perfect example of what I was thinking about

[rdonj]

I think I have a turn file with a pretty major battle from a mod game. Sombre's lizards versus llamabeast's tomb kings. It's not quite the kind of battle endoperez was talking about though.

[lch]

Yes, it always had video commentary for battles, but he had to move those to another video feed hoster recently, as the one he used previously discontinued the service for records of video games or something.

[Horst F. JENS]

youtube sucks for dom3 videos. Did a commented turn and uploaded my first youtube video ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bifh7k45eI
given the bad codec/resolution of youtube, it was possibly also my last youtube upload ever :-)
have to look for a better video-sharing site. Too bad, because youtube has big potential for creating new dom3 addicts.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Horst F. JENS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bifh7k45eI

I really liked your narrative. And the Lesser Horrors. And the fact that the evil snake god got his comeuppance, it was very satisfying. Nice job!

-Max

[JimMorrison]

That was awesome.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Horst F. JENS

youtube sucks for dom3 videos. Did a commented turn and uploaded my first youtube video ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bifh7k45eI
given the bad codec/resolution of youtube, it was possibly also my last youtube upload ever :-)
have to look for a better video-sharing site. Too bad, because youtube has big potential for creating new dom3 addicts.

I should look into what it takes to have Dom3Minions.com host them. I can easily make it available for download, and a link so people can get it. Not so sure about streaming it.
I should look into that.

[Horst F. JENS]

That would be great.
Sadly i can not host the videos on my own site.
I'm a bit confused about all those different video hosting sites and still try to find out the differences.
My only experience so far is with www.showmedo.com , but that site specialize on open-source tutorials, not games.

[Gandalf Parker]

For people following this discussion....
it appears that making a video available is fairly simple altho not the easiest to find out about. Most searches want to steer you to fancy softwares that would be great if you wanted to control access and try to prevent users from downloading a copy.

The simplest answer:
is just a simple html link which leaves the viewing work to the browser at the users end.

From there it gets gradually fancier. Specifying which viewer, or putting it in a window embedded in the web page, or requiring the user to allow java or flash instead of using the viewer on their machine.

Here is a simply lowest-level answer I found if someone else wants to do this on their own webspace.
http://www.wikihow.com/Put-Video-on-a-Web-Page

Yeah I know. Im supposed to just do it and create oohs and ahhs about my server instead of continually saying how anyone can. I get slammed alot for that.

GEEK NOTE: this may just be a temporary answer since as of Aug 2008 there is a W3 workshop toward declaring video a first-class citizen of the web instead of an extension.
www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo