Thread:Raadec/@comment-3547390-20130307195655/@comment-3547390-20131110204724

We will see how it turns out, I guess the best ones for the job! My computer works much better with Quake now that it is set up properly with OpenGl, so that's a plus. I try WinQuake on my computer with limited success, maybe because I am too lazy to set it up. So this time around I will be playing with the best official effects possible while exclusively using 1rst party software (Darkforces being the latest bane of the wikia due to how much it changes, it is okay when seperate but not good for original pages). Audio sounds good on this end so I will definately be able to crank while playing :p.

Now that I have music in Quake I feel almost sad that I missed out on it for so many years. The intro video is ten times as awesome!

Upon replaying the original walkthrough videos, I recall how bad the picture really was. The only thing interesting is that it seems my gamma settings are rather bright in the video when they are dark when I play. I guess it is kinda personal preference and it doesn't seem to deter from the video. It runs smooth and sounds great (sounds the same really, but that is a positive when a lot has been changed).

Wikia seems to have evolved as well. Seems it supports more sites than just Youtube (which I think cuts down the original video quality quite a bit). Dailymotion though seems like the only viable alternative (the only in English that isn't a premium service and allows for over 15 minutes of video and has a large filesize limit). Playlists also seem cleaner and quick to setup. Unlike youtube, I didn't have to convert to some other format before uploading. I can also be more active as it is connected to my primary email instead of a gmail account I was forced into (at some point Youtube required it, don't know if they still do). Upload times seem slower (16 seconds takes a little bit to load), but then again I have the time to let an upload run while before I didn't have stability (A laptop is never something I love to let sit for any length of time and only the last few videos showed my old desktop computer which I was using prior to the last month). Plus it might be slower as it is a higher quality compared to the compressed format I used to have to convert it to.

Dailymotion also intrigues me due to a group feature which can perhaps be used to create an entire group for official QuakeWikia content (pretty much anything we have now as long as it is more regulated) instead of all these seperated videos. With the last set it felt too much like a disconnected thing to just create videos on youtube because that suggests that nobody can view any other sets of videos besides those I create. I might still need to be the admin there, but it might be an interesting feature to expand.

Have you guys checked out both services and have an opinion which is better? I am uploading a very short test video on Dailymotion and will add it to this comment when I am done. For youtube try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRJLVAT0m1c.

EDIT: Here is the video. Maybe it is me being too used to HD, but I cannot stand any quality less than 720p. (hover over the video and select the button that says either 420p or auto depending on what it is preset to if your bandwidth can support it). At least it can be visible in a better quality than what youtube goes up to by default. Youtube had 420p for a maximum on my videos (maybe it has been improved since recording time however). - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x171hj9

Also, interesting tidbit, the gamma issue I mentioned fixed itself when uploaded. Perhaps it is hardcoded into the data but displays differently on my system.

P.S. - Anyone get the bit7 links on the wikia to work lately? - http://bit7.org/quake/maps/quake/end. I am starting to wonder if the website is dead and thus the links should be removed (the image based website seems to not appear attractive even remotely on the Internet Archive where pictures are not shown). I will wait for your input before deleting these links.