FIE bout videos on youtube

[Gav]

Rather spooky to click on the link and see your husband refereeing.

Ha Ha. The first link I clicked on had him refereeing in it too!

[Joe biebel]

I could not get high res videos to download after my initial post. Only regular quality. I did a bunch more research and found that if I downloaded and installed the add-on, downloadhelper for Firefox, you can download very high res quality. The match I tested with, went from less than 20MB to about 70MB. The quality is spectacular.

[Superscribe]

I guess it does in the first one, but in the other two he just smacks him on top of the mask, which puzzled me.

The motion of the blade looks like he's trying to land a coupe/flick to the front of the body, rather than a flick to the top of the shoulder or back.

At least that's what my wrist looks like when i'm trying to land a coupe to the front of the body.

[Gav]

I thought I would sticky this for the moment.

Is there an appetite for a stickied thread that contains all of the vid links we can find (e.g. this and the compilation videos)?

[oiuyt]

You don't think FencingVideos.net does a good enough job of listing all of their videos?

Could there be a meta-list, categorizing the offerings from fencingvideos.net plus this new FIE channel, plus whatever else people dig up? Sure. I'm not sure that it would add enough value to balance the effort of maintaining it, especially if it merely ends up being mostly a listing of the offerings from two primary sources. Unless the categorization scheme used in the meta-lsit is significantly better for locating specific material.

-B

[Gav]

You don't think FencingVideos.net does a good enough job of listing all of their videos?

Brad, I'm not talking about them ...

Could there be a meta-list, categorizing the offerings from fencingvideos.net plus this new FIE channel, plus whatever else people dig up? Sure. I'm not sure that it would add enough value to balance the effort of maintaining it, especially if it merely ends up being mostly a listing of the offerings from two primary sources. Unless the categorization scheme used in the meta-lsit is significantly better for locating specific material.

-B

Could go through and add tags to the relevent threads but that's time consuming and clunky. If you come to the site looking for vids you might not know the tags that have been assigned to them anyway.

Most forums I've been to have important topics stuck to the top of their listings. It's just a thought.

[oiuyt]

Brad, I'm not talking about them ...

They're the source of all of the compilation videos (as well as many others). They already have them listed, sorted, and organized. If you're not talking about them plus the new FIE channel, who are you talking about?

-B

[Mihail]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Unfortunately, I haven't been regularly updating the website, because of various responsibilities over the last couple of months, as well as just general summer break-iness.

Anyway, is there something immoral about indexing the videos on the FIEvideo YouTube account? If not, maybe I'll eventually get started on that.

I made the site on Google Sites, since I don't have to much time to build it from scratch and it's a simple enough concept. But I am frustrated by the lack of a RSS feed for the updates page. You'd figure that would be a "duh" feature.

[Gav]

They're the source of all of the compilation videos (as well as many others). They already have them listed, sorted, and organized. If you're not talking about them plus the new FIE channel, who are you talking about?

-B

There are other people putting vids up on the net. Personally I think a general index would help. When I came back to fencing there was very little useful stuff out there that told you where to get things. If I was new but wanted to view vids and I didn't know that site; how would I know where to look? Fencing.net wsa #1 on google for fencing last time I looked.

It's just a thought so I am a little perplexed by the hostility.

[Gav]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Unfortunately, I haven't been regularly updating the website, because of various responsibilities over the last couple of months, as well as just general summer break-iness.

Anyway, is there something immoral about indexing the videos on the FIEvideo YouTube account? If not, maybe I'll eventually get started on that.

I made the site on Google Sites, since I don't have to much time to build it from scratch and it's a simple enough concept. But I am frustrated by the lack of a RSS feed for the updates page. You'd figure that would be a "duh" feature.

Kudos to you for the site. I shall also rep you!

[Craig]

There are other people putting vids up on the net. Personally I think a general index would help. When I came back to fencing there was very little useful stuff out there that told you where to get things. If I was new but wanted to view vids and I didn't know that site; how would I know where to look? Fencing.net wsa #1 on google for fencing last time I looked.

It's just a thought so I am a little perplexed by the hostility.

I installed a mod at /forums/videos/ to do that where you can enter the YouTube URL, your own description, and tags to the video.

Thus far, I haven't had time to spend going through all of the videos that I've found. Ideally when input into the forum thing one would add a good text description of the video, what to look for, etc.

I would expect people to also link back to the original poster's youtube channel or web site within the description, so if someone really likes a video they can track down the author to find more.


Craig

[Gav]

Ah, I'd forgotten about that. I'll unstick this.

I think I am having one of "those days".