SNOWJAPAN.TV:
http://www.snowjapan.tv

This season we wanted to do something with videos and we eventually decided to create a new site just for videos called snowjapan.tv .

This is a very new and exciting project for us. We are confident that the site will be fine from the beginning, but it is new and quite complex and so especially at the beginning there might be some issues that we need to deal with. Please bear with us as this part of the site grows.

Any videos that you upload to the site will remain yours and you can delete them at any time. The only initial guidelines we have are that the videos be relevant to the theme of "SnowJapan" and also no advertising videos please.

You can also embed the videos into the threads on these forums. On each video on the site on the right hand side you will see the code needed to embed them into the forums. The code to use is basically [snowjapantv] videocode [/snowjapantv]

Here is a sample:



[All videos that were previously on the videos section of SnowJapan have been uploaded to this site under the name "SnowJapanTV". If you are the owner of one of those videos and wish for us to delete it, please contact us].

Hope to see lots of new video clips online this season:
http://www.snowjapan.tv

News on other updates can be found here:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/240797#Post240797

TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!

Video! Excellent.

Hello bandwidth... will get expensive! Hope it doesn't affect the main site.

On a sepearete Server, so no compromise =)

Love the fact U can embed here too.
Now I just need to take some footage when I visit =)

We have a totally separate server for snowjapan.tv - on a totally different network connection - and so there is no connection between the two.
So there are absolutely no bandwidth or security issues between the main SnowJapan site, the Forums and the video site.

We shall see about bandwidth - of course how much bandwidth the site eats up is going to depend on how many people use the site and how many videos go up there. Some unknowns for us as well right now, but we're going to do what we can to adjust and grow as necessary.

We have also tripled our bandwidth for the main sj/forums site, so we think we are ready for the season.

excellent

great idea

Fantastic!
SJ, with all the diversions you provide I'm getting the distinct impression you really don't want me to pass my uni course!

Love the idea, looks great.

Question - how much time do guests get with vids?

If you're not logged in just a few minutes a day.

If you sign up and login you get unlimited access. So if you are going to use the site we'd be happy if people do that.

These things are subject to change as we assess how bandwidth issues etc go over the coming days and weeks.

Thanks.

"Remember Me" functionality has been added to the snowjapan.tv site. If you now check the Remember Me box when you login to the site, it should keep you logged in for the next time you visit.

http://www.snowjapan.tv/

Over the next few days the tv site may be unavailable for short periods as we make some necessary changes to our server setup and deal with some network issues.

Sorry for the disruption - hopefully it will not be for long and things will be back to normal speed soon. Thanks.

The network issues we were experiencing with the snowjapan.tv site are now (fingers crossed) behind us. Videos should now be loading at normal speed.

Thanks.

http://www.snowjapan.tv

The snowjapan.tv site is only a few weeks old but we have had a fair few behind-the-scenes issues to deal with since it first went online! But the good news is that - fingers crossed - the site is now perched on a brand new, nice server with a good connection to the intertubes and should hopefully now be settled and ready for the season. We are hoping that things from now on will go smoothly, but if you do find any issues with the site please do let us know at editor@snowjapan.com and we will look into them.

If you are not logged in, you can view videos for a short time each day. If you are signed up and logged in you have unlimited access to all of the videos. Please do sign up if you intend to either upload videos or view videos this winter. It's a really simple process and totally free - you can do it from this page:

http://www.snowjapan.tv/signup.php

Please note that you cannot login using your Forums username and password - you will need to register over at the .tv site.

Thank you

http://www.snowjapan.tv

You can now view the videos on snowjapan.tv in full screen. Just click on the icon in the bottom right of the video on the site to change the full screen mode. (Clicking on Esc will go back to normal size).

When a video from snowjapan.tv is now embedded on these forums, the first frame of the video now appears on the initial paused screen (rather than the black screen that appeared previously). As well as looking better, this will give you an idea of what the video is about before clicking on Play.

Example:

this was a really good surprise



great work guys this year again.

Good job on the site guys!

PS: I'm so glad I didn't go there that day.

Thanks Tesselator

Yea, this is the first thing I tried, after attempting to share the link to a good video (in this site) with some friends in other circles, and stumbling upon the "sorry, you are over your quota today" or some such whilst testing it myself.

Strange.