vlogs

[wretchedkunt]

Title
vlogs

Short, concise description of the idea
Id love it if we can upload video blogs directly to livejournal without having to go through another website like youtube first

Full description of the ideayou already added the voice blog thing, I think uploading other videos directly to livejournal would be beneficial. We could set it so only the

Comments

[boredinsomniac]

Previous suggestion from 3 years ago:
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/711248.html

[vvalkyri]

I'd think the space considerations would be the major issue, with potential copyright problems a second one.

[vvalkyri]

er, I just followed the above link, and I stand corrected

[wretchedkunt]

maybe there can be limits to how big your video can be like youtube 10 mins or facebooks 2 minutes

[azurelunatic]

I always find a time limitation for a video, rather than a file size limitation, to be counterintuitive. But it would be smart to have some sort of limitation on video size other than being as big as your remaining storage space can handle.

[lady_angelina]

How would this work for people who don't have the equipment to record videos? At least with audio posting, you do it by phone (which most LJers have access to... heck, even a shoddy pay phone will work). I just can't see how this feature would be fair to the have-nots who don't have webcams.

That aside, if it's doable, sure.

[wretchedkunt]

thats why it would be an Option just like the voice recording. obviously you cant cant do a voice recording without a mic..

[wretchedkunt]

so you wouldnt be able to do a video without a webcam or other kind of cam

[azurelunatic]

You wouldn't be able to make a video of yourself or your surroundings without access to some sort of video-capable camera.

Though I imagine that if this were implemented, self-and-surroundings wouldn't be the only sort of video hosted. Even discounting such uses as unaltered clips of TV/movies that belong to someone else uploaded without permission, there's also things such as putting together fan videos with clips from other video sources telling a new story, computer graphic animation, hand-drawn animation, slideshows with and without narration... all of which can be done with a reasonably fast computer with basic Microsoft this-stuff-is-included software, even though it's not particularly easy without a better program.

[dropsofviolet]

I think video would put a lot of strain on the servers. It takes up a lot more space than a voicepost does, and let's face it, LJ has enough server problems as it is.

If this could be implemented in a manner that doesn't slow down normal services, I think it could be cool.

[azurelunatic]

Storing large chunks of data that's never accessed is little problem. It's serving it up, and serving it up without having it memcached (when it's in that not-accessed-often-enough-to-be-already-there, but still getting accessed semi-regularly, level of use) that I'm told is the strain.

I understand ScrapBook has its own cluster(s); I imagine that it would be stored in ScrapBook on those servers, and thus any resulting cluster-suck would be limited to there; it oughtn't to be worse for the main servers to serve up than the same number of YouTube embeds. Though it's a moot point that non-ScrapBook items would load fast when you have a friendspageful of stuff that's taking forever because the rest of it has loaded but the server has not coughed up all the videos yet.

[matgb]

This, effectively. What put me off the suggestion was "I can't think of any drawbacks".

I can think of many many drawbacks, especially given the site's falling over a lot as is, but it would be a good mid term plan, especially with privacy options in scrapbook.

Hell, if it could be implemented tomorrow, it might be a sales point good enough to get people using the site again.

[pauamma]

IIRC, it's already possible to upload video files to ScrapBook. Can you explain in more detail what you think is missing?

[lady_angelina]

If I'm understanding correctly, they want to be able to create the videos via LiveJournal interface and upload them, much in the same way that you can upload an audio file via voice posting over the phone. Except it would require video-making equipment, like a webcam (or maybe a digital camera or mobile phone with video creating capabilities).