Videos on Vox

Jan 5, 2007 at 4:30 PM
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This just in, from the Team Vox engineers:

"We discovered that the quality of video playback has been suffering for the last month and a half. On investigation, it turns out that the software we use for turning the many formats of video by Vox members into web-playable video was modified somewhere around, well, a month and a half ago. We reverted that change this week, and video quality looks better than ever!

Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be re-encoding the videos encoded by the faulty software so that all of your videos look as good as they should. In the meantime, don't bother re-uploading your videos because that won't solve your quality issues until after we have a chance to re-encode."

Steve adds: "There is some mysterious, magical trickery - tomfoolery, even - happening behind-the-scenes that would prevent a re-uploaded video from appearing to be of higher quality. Brand-spanking new video, however, will appear to be awesome (lame content notwithstanding)."

For more information on video, read Managing Videos in the Knowledge Base. On that note, here's a little video for you:

Maddy stretches again

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Have a great weekend everyone!

- Krissy

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[this is good]

[this is wonderful] yay!! Thank you for fixing this.

What a relief. The poor video quality was a real bummer. Thanks for the fix.

[this is good]

Why is the dog wearing a cape?

Is is a Kryptonian Dog?

Uh, I never noticed this problem...but thanks for fixing it anyway!

oh thank god you guys got it fixed. i was getting worried when i saw a video i uploaded a couple weeks ago turned out terrible. so i ended up just uploading it to youtube and then embedding it in my blog.

THANK YOU for fixing it. you guys are on the ball, and that's just one of MANY reasons that you all are my favorite to use.

[this is good]

Yeah! Thanks - I was beginning to wonder if this was goin to be an ongoing problem. :)

Thank you very much. I was wondering why my latest video was looking so pixelated compared to my previous ones. Whew.

Thanks... any chance this will enable mms videos from Verizon Wireless (.3g2) to begin working?

Thank you for fixing this. I'm motivated now to actually post videos in my blog!

thanks very much for working on this. i did notice this problem over a month ago and was frustrated enough to stop uploading videos as a result. (even posted a blog entry about this.) please keep us updated on developments.

i'd love to be able to embed video from Vimeo or JumpCut on my Vox. I'd like to have those services added to the video tab in vox, or have a way to embed the HTML directly.

Other than that, I'm a happy Vox camper. Great work Team Vox!

Whoo! Hoo!