Add subtitles to the speedrun videos
7 years ago
Puerto Rico

Hello again guys! I came with a better idea. My idea is to add subtitles in order to know who made a speedrun.

Example: <Game title here> PLAYED BY <Gamer tag here> SPEEDRUN.COM

Another suggestion: encode speedrun videos using AviSynth script and MeGUI (at least the latest version)

I hope you can consider my suggestions. Sorry about my English, lol. Cheers!

Germany

Ehm..you do know that speedrun.com is not hosting the videos? and that they are not encoding them?

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South Carolina, USA

@Brapchu it's possible that they don't know that. Not everyone is as experienced with uploading videos as you are :).

Vienna, Austria

@Kasumi This like Brapchu pointed out, speedrun.com is only referring to the videos and "only" gives us the leaderboards and forums. To do something like that you need a quite huge server which will process that, since encoding a video again is thousands of times more resource heavy then generating a website/view. Then you also need to have some kind of security checks, since otherwise some bots or idiots spam the uploading and cause like 1000 videos to be rendered again. There're tons of flaws in that and it's also not a good practice to use YT as a server again, since the content of the videos is not speedrun.com's, it's YOURS. Maybe you do some stupid talk in there which could result in problems for speedrun.com again etc. And all videos would be listed to be by speedrun.com instead of you so to make that work out again is just ... no.

BTW, your suggestions for editors/encoders is ... why? You need to run these things automatically on the server, otherwise you'd need to have extra people using their pc to encode the video again which upload it again. And no, you surely don't run such a server on windows, so you would at least have to look for a linux Encoder.

@DarkerStix They? Experienced in UPLOADING Videos? What kind of experience do you need for that anyways? DansGame

South Carolina, USA

@PreFiXAUT I got a bit confused the first time I uploaded a video. Maybe I'm just not all that computer savvy, but it's not automatic for everyone. In other words, it's impolite to make assumptions in regard to a person's knowledge. And I said they because Idk if Kasumi is a male or a female. :)

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