Moth3r wrote: "The flash media player doesn't work for me. However, I did find it was possible to extract the URL and download the MP4 file directly."
Thanks for checking it out, there's just so far I can beta. Added direct download links to the Mp4s, since the player might not work for a lot more people. Online video is fraught with complications. I ended up using the Mp4s and archive.org's embedded media player figuring it would be fairly universal, but it would seem that's not the case. I couldn't get it to work in windows explorererer but got cross platform performance from firefox when i was testing.
the nice thing about the player, although it doesn't work on my site but from files housed on archive.org, the player can automatically start playing the next chapter. So in theory, if OT.com members wanted their edits online, they could post the segments they've changed and with enough of those online, the whole movie could be recreated and 'edits' of edits could be set up to automatically stream.
Video compression was one of the major headaches making this thing. pulling sources from everywhere it seemed like every location had a different format which required a different program or codec to repurpose the video into the miniDV format i thought was fairly universal. major phucking pain in the ass.
Moth3r wrote: "And yes, I think this introduction does just make things more confusing..."
the intro does accomplish three things, first that the main feature is a shit load of tv clips, so people would understand that. (there goes half the audience) Second, a chance to read through the chapter titles to see if any of those ideas might be of interest to them (and another 40% dissipates) and third, people's reactions. (so after another set of fleeing clicks) The remaining .001% should get a kick out of it... if they can figure out how to download and play the clips!
Moth3r wrote: "It didn't help that the voice over is pretty much unintelligible."
%20 is a text-2-speech entity, for better or worse. So added to the page is the transcript. Part of the goal of a project like this is to get someone to realize that this kind of work could be created by a computer, so a computer voice as the pseudo-author leads a tad more credence to the whole thing. Now yes maybe i've used the wrong text-2-speech since there are many words which get mangled. I'll blame that on resources.
As the Sith anniversary (the all important 4th) approaches, we'll see where this things goes in the public's attention span. I'll be contacting random places as i think of who might be receptive. Not sure if i should go directly to blogs or post in message forums? but it's a time sink so that's a draw back, hopefully the splitting into chapters will help people become more familiar with the ideas?
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