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StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

July 07 2010 22:10 GMT

#41

On July 07 2010 21:32 LuCiD37 wrote:
I like the site,

It could use more links to youtube/ustream/livestream of streamed replays with commentary (to be in addition to the downloadable replay file). I see now that it does have some- my only criticism then is to make those VODs a bit more organized.

cool stuff

Hi Lucid

I'm interested in understanding what you're looking for a bit better. Atm there are about 2000 VODs of various sorts from 60 odd casters that are visible in the database with about 3-400 other VODS that are set to not display because they are not relevant. You can see them all on the single page display http://rts-sanctuary.com/index.php?portal=SC2&act=casters&cmd=02. You can choose to:
- view all the vods or just those from a single caster
- search the VODs by key words in the titles and/or description
- limit your search to periods of time like today, this week, this month,
- view vods from a particular stye of library (eg youtube only)
- order your search results by date published, views on the site or the caster in ascending or descending order

What else is it that you would like to see? I've thought about event tagging - I suspect the task would get overwhelming very quickly with the number of vods coming in but it could possibly be done. Certainly I'm thinking about ways to collect together the links to vods from particular events. I'm alos going to be adding the ability to comment on, and rate, individual vods but I probably won't go to the stage of making an individual forum topic for each vod.

Anyway give us your feedback and I'll see what I can do .. should start to see a lot more activity in the streaming and vods again now that the beta is starting again :D

LuCiD37

United States150 Posts

July 09 2010 18:08 GMT

#42

Robo,
When I first viewed the site I really did not take much time to examine all of its features. I just looked at it again and the problem is not organization, it is the lack of player tags on the VODs that are there. I understand it is a work in progress, so that's not a criticism as much as it is me stating a matter of fact. However, this is what gave me the impression that it was disorganized- as when I type in say "Sen" into the search option, nothing comes up. Usually I will search by player and not by caster whenever I think it is an option. I then searched a few casters and it is very well organized and easy to navigate. There is no problem with the caster side. In fact, the site is pretty awesome as far as that goes.
I hope to see a way for users to search for individual players and have a search return that is relevant or better. If I can just type in "Sen" or "Demuslim" and a large amount of videos are brought up (albeit the same videos from the caster VOD library) then the site has become that much more valuable to me.
That is my only criticism at this moment- a lot of people have certain individual players that they like to follow instead of, or in addition to, their favorite casters.

StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

July 09 2010 23:55 GMT

#43

Thanks for the feedback. You are certainly able to search VoDs by the title and/or description but when I set the system up I set the minimum length for a key word to be 4 characters which is why something like Sen wouldn't work. I can change that down to 3 characters without any problem. However this still only works if the player's name has been included in the title or description of the replay and this isn't always the case. I have found that most of the vods that come from Youtube and BlipTV tend to be well-labelled but the ones that are from the stream services are generally not edited to anything useful (hint to casters here ... )

I do have the ability to use 'tags' on videos but the job of manually tagging every video would be ind of huge. I'm in the process of adding the ability to comment on/rate vods atm so I might also add the ability for users to add 'tags ' of their choice to vods to help with future searches. If anyone else has ideas about how to make the VoD library more usable I'd be interested to hear them.

StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

July 17 2010 12:44 GMT

#44

Just a small update to say that we now have over 110 casters and over 8,300 VoDs entered into the database. About 2,000 of the VoDs are what I would characterise as simple recordings of live streams that haven't been edited or titled in any particular fashion and we have set up a mechanism to screen these from genral browsing of the library. That still leaves over 6000 VoDs that have been titled up and posted ... some people have been very busy.

Still open to anyone to add themselves the database .. new VoDs automatically appear on a recent content list on the main page of the site.

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