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Streaming etc.

Discussion in 'Suggestions' started by anandjones, Jun 7, 2008.

  1. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Maybe allow streaming of videos from sites, or games from sites in forum posts? I've seen this in other forums. Not sure if it slows down the forum in any way though.
     
  2. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Allowing flash is a security risk, we'd have to get a BBC tag to only allow certain hosts such as youtube. That's Loony's job though. :p
     
  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    it would as the site/forum is hosted on a slow connection. The eventual plan is to add gameplay video to the game description page.
     
  4. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Maybe just a YouTube could be okay though.
     
  5. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    I figured it was the ability to embed off-site flash videos right? We can probably find a mod at the SMF site that adds a BBC tag.
     
  6. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Yeah, and yeah there is a YouTube mod there, of course and plenty others such as GoogleVideo, MySpace etc..

    http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=936
     
  7. monter

    monter Guest

    Why not links to the video page ::)
     
  8. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    You guys do know that there are people who access the Forum via 56k dial up modem do you? If you allow video streaming those guys may not be able to log on or post or whatever :(
     
  9. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    It wouldn't download until the user clicked play...
     
  10. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Exactly, unless they automatically start. I find that some YouTube videos do that though.