WorldTV

We are pleased to report that issues concerning adding videos from Metacafe and Daily Motion have been resolved.

Somos contentes de informar que as questões acerca da utilizacao dos videos do Metacafe e  do Dailymotion foram resolvidas.

We are equally pleased to announce three new additions to our supported sites.  Vimeo is showing hockey stick growth and popularity and has been an early adopters “video must”.  Brazil is now a huge region of WorldTV users so we have dutifully added Dada and Leechvideo to our list of supported sites to hopefully offer a wider variety of content for our Brazilian/Portuguese channel creators and viewers.

Somos igualmente contentes de anunciar três novas adições aos nossos sítios suportados. O Vimeo está mostrando um crescimento de popularidade muito forte e foi um dos primeiros sites a utilisar “vídeo must”. O Brasil é agora uma região com uma forte concentracão de usuários da WorldTV portanto acrescentamos respeitosamente os sítios Dada e Leechvideo à nossa lista de sítios suportatos para oferecer confiantemente uma mais larga variedade de conteúdo aos nossos criadores de canais e espectadores Brasileiros/Portugueses.

Vimeo

LeechVideo

Dada.net

So why not visit your WorldTV Channel Editor and Add some URLs from these fabulous supported sites!

Então, por que não visitar o seu Editor de Canal WorldTV e acrescentar algums URLs desses fabulosos sítios!

Looking for more video content on the web?  Then WorldTV highly recommends OVGuide a super search site for all kinds of Online Video.

Voces estao procurando mais conteúdo no internete?  Então o WorldTV cordialmente recomenda a OVGuide um otimo sítio de busca de todas as espécies de Vídeos Online.

Unfortunately you may have been experiencing some problems adding (or viewing clips) from the very wonderful Metacafe - one of WorldTVs favorite video content sites.

We are doing our very best to resolve this issue ASAP and will keep you posted with any new developments.  Meanwhile please be advised that adding Metacafe URL’s to your channel may not be possible and videos added may also be temporarily unavailable to view.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

WorldTV Technical

Our record-by-webcam feature has been the one aspect of the site that we’ve been the least happy with for some time. We’re happy to announce that today it has been upgraded significantly.

There’s still a few things we want to do to improve it further but we wanted to bring you the main improvements right away. Notably the issues that many people were having with audio should now be fixed, we’ve simplified the interface to make it easier to use, and we’ve added visual feedback for volume so you know the audio is working.

Please give the webcam feature a try and let us know any issues or thoughts you have in the comments section below. Some more technical details follow…

Technical - We have removed the resolution options as they were confusing for many people. We have set the resolution and quality to fixed values which should work well for most people in most situations. We plan to improve on this by adding a feature that will auto-test your upload bandwidth upon initialization of the webcam and set the quality and resolution accordingly. This will mean that everyone gets the best possible quality for their connection speed. Naturally people’s internet connections vary a great deal in terms of speed, particularly when it comes to upload speed. This is the relevant aspect for recording video into our site. There is a known issue which remains relating to very short clips. In this situation you may experience the WorldTV buffering logo appearing, although this doesn’t affect the recorded clip.

Ok so this is a bit of a geeky post so feel free to skip if this isn’t your bag…

Tonight we moved all our DNS hosting over to a company called UltraDNS who handle hosting for MySpace, Amazon, Oracle, Digg and other major websites. Basically it means that accessing the website should be just a little bit zippier for our friends in far flung places, and make it generally more reliable. It’s also more secure, meaning our site is less vulnerable to so called DNS attacks.

UltraDNS operate servers all over the world, and although electricity travels at the speed of light, the milliseconds it takes to travel from one side of the world to the other (and back) can add up. By having servers located closer to our friends and users, we can reduce that.

Our new partnership with UltraDNS is all part of our never ending desire to increase the reliability and performance of our service. We’re proud to be in such prestigious company as the excellent sites above.

The WorldTV system currently has a limit of displaying 100 clips maximum in either the Library or the Playlist (upgraded today from 50!). This is because our experiments have shown that having more than 100 means the page takes too long to display (for most people).

We are working on a new feature which will allow you to organize clips into folders, which will go a long way to solving this problem, while simultaneously making the Library much easier to manage.

In the meantime, please be aware that if you add more than 100 clips to either the Playlist or the Library (or both), older clips may disappear from view. The older ones are still ‘in the system’ however, and if you delete newer clips, the older ones will reappear.

Since a few people have started to reach the 100 clip limit, we will shortly be implementing a feature that enforces the 100 clip limit more rigidly, until such time as the folders system is introduced. If you have any reason why you would like more than 100 clips, drop us an e-mail, and we’ll see what we can arrange.

N.B The Playlist and Library limitations are calculated separately. So this means you can have 100 clips in the Library and 100 clips in the Playlist.

Our popular World Page allows you to see Top 40 channel listings for over 100 countries, and we’ve now made the top 40 even better. We’ve improved the way the ‘best’ channels are calculated, and the new charts are now much fairer and higher quality.

We’ve also added an Editor’s Pick icon for channels that we think are cool.

Watching channels from around the World can be addictive!

We love Daily Motion, it’s a great video hosting site, unfortunately some WorldTV users are currently experiencing problems with Daily Motion clips in their WorldTV channels. We have an idea what the problem is, and assure you we’ll be on the case with fixing it as soon as Xmas is out the way.

Have a wonderful holidays and don’t forget to show your relatives how easy it is to create their own channel on WorldTV!

Earlier problems have now been fixed.

We’re aware of major issues with the system at this time which we are looking into. We will post updates on the situation as soon as we have more news. In the meantime please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

There are currently some problems with searches from Yahoo! and AOL. We are working on these issues and improving the reliability of search results in general.