Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to SlashdotTV! (Video)

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You may have noticed that we've posted quite a few original videos on Slashdot in the past few months. Rather than being the work of a few rogue editors with newly-acquired Christmas cameras, this was part of the groundwork for a new site we're launching today. SlashdotTV, found at http://tv.slashdot.org, will let you easily find and watch all of our videos in one convenient location. In addition to Slashdot content, you also can watch videos from our sister sites, SourceForge and ThinkGeek. The site is brand new, and we're interested in hearing your feedback -- what you think about it, and what kind of videos you'd like to see. Currently, you can embed our videos on your own site or show them to your friends with our share feature. Commenting is coming soon. Check back often for new videos, and keep watching!

Stop doing it in Flash

[SgtChaireBourne]

Stop doing the videos in Flash. It's a proprietary wrapper usable on a decreasing number of platforms. Better formats for video already exist. If you want old, then go with MPEG. If you want new, go with WebM. Either way, you'll both reach a larger audience and future-proof your work.

Re:Just make a YouTube page

[vlm]

They Could follow the advice of the comments and use modern container files, modern html to display it, high res (like HD res, not 360 px instead of 240 px like youtube), make torrent available, working RSS feeds of the video files ready to feed into mythnettv and the other TV appliances...

bug or feature?

[Anonymous Coward]

Flash 11.1.102.63 here on Fedora and none of the slashdot videos have played on this machine.
Good luck with the "linux" category :)

Re:Stop doing it in Flash

[TheRaven64]

That's not all that they're for. They also stop us having to see videos - or even still images - of Timothy Lord...