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Created by: VS_Brad

12/16/10 @ 3:54pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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Many of you may have noticed Mia Miho's room today, she was the first performer to use our new and improved video format and the results were amazing! Over the coming days and weeks you will see more rooms transition to the new codec which offers much improved video and audio!

The new video is 640x480 native broadcast instead of 320x240 that we used previously. We've also switched to using a new codec that transmits this larger video using less bandwidth. The new codec is also better at handling connection hiccups.

When you see it ... you'll know. Soon we will push out an upgrade to the model list that will begin to identify the rooms using the improved video to make them easier to find.

Enjoy the new video!

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12/16/10 @ 4:06pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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Video was nice .
There was no chat in the old interface to talk to the model

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12/16/10 @ 4:52pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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Video was nice. There was no chat in the old interface to talk to the model

Interesting, not sure why that would have happened but we'll look into it.

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Created by: vs_scottl

12/16/10 @ 6:19pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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Video was nice .
There was no chat in the old interface to talk to the model

I just noticed that when I have the resolution on my monitors set to 1024x768 the chat area in the old interface gets cut off due to the video being so large. The new video is, in terms of height, the largest we've ever broadcast.

Did you happen to try it in the 'new' chat interface?

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Created by: VS_Brad

12/16/10 @ 6:20pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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We confirmed that it works fine in the new interface. We're working on a fix for the old interface. Another reason to use the new interface ;)

Brad

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Created by: purgatory

12/17/10 @ 4:45am (EST) |UTC - 5:00

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Enjoy the new video!

Brad

Xmas really is coming early this year

, didn't get to see the test room but will keep an eye out for this new video codec setup

What sort of bandwidth do models need for this new codec to work right at a decent frame rate and are all models able to switch to this now ? Also do they need to update their performer application for it to be available to them ?

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Created by: VS_Brad

12/17/10 @ 9:29am (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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What sort of bandwidth do models need for this new codec to work right at a decent frame rate

We're suggesting that performers have at least 600k upload speed to use this. We're not going to remove the old video codec though so performers will still have the other option.

and are all models able to switch to this now ? Also do they need to update their performer application for it to be available to them ?

Nope, not to everyone yet. We're still testing some things and need to wrap up some changes in the VOD process. We hope to open it up to all performers as an option before the end of the year.

Brad

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12/17/10 @ 11:07am (EST) |UTC - 5:00

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We're suggesting that performers have at least 600k upload speed to use this. We're not going to remove the old video codec though so performers will still have the other option.

Sounds good

Nope, not to everyone yet. We're still testing some things and need to wrap up some changes in the VOD process. We hope to open it up to all performers as an option before the end of the year.

Brad

Yes can imagine new codecs means new headaches for the backend VOD conversions. I know very well the headaches of video conversions and keeping audio/video in sync and playable over Flash video players. Wish you guys luck with it and looking forward to seeing it in action. :thumbsup

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Created by: easyfellow

12/17/10 @ 12:09pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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We confirmed that it works fine in the new interface. We're working on a fix for the old interface. Another reason to use the new interface ;)

Brad

For me the new interface is superior. Most important for me are the chat window and the video window.
If the chat window is maximized first and after that the video window is dragged to max, both windows together fill almost the whole screen.
The experience could be even better if the new codec would improve the video quality.
Of course its just from a Vip point of view (what the hell "vip", i am just a normal guy!) and maybe its worse for other registered users.

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Created by: VS_Brad

12/17/10 @ 7:28pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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The experience could be even better if the new codec would improve the video quality.

The tests we had today went well. Going to open it up to more performers early next week so you should start to see more of these rooms in the coming days and weeks.

We're going to start identifying which rooms are HD as well; that's in the works.

Brad

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Created by: VS_Brad

12/20/10 @ 3:38pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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We have opened up the new software with the improved video and audio to all performers as of this morning. It will take some time for performers to go through the setup process and start using it in greater numbers.

We have added an "HD" overlay to the sample images on the home page of performers using the new video to make them easy to find during these first few days.

Brad

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Created by: purgatory

12/21/10 @ 7:01am (EST) |UTC - 5:00

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Just checked a couple of HD rooms and they are so far much better than they were in the past without the new codecs

Nice work guys

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12/21/10 @ 1:42pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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Just checked a couple of HD rooms and they are so far much better than they were in the past without the new codecs

Nice work guys

Awesome, glad you like it. Definitely exciting to see performers starting to use the new video. In several cases it has been like seeing the performer for the very first time!

Brad

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12/21/10 @ 2:13pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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A big

on this improvement

I do have trouble getting the video, chat and room list to display at times but overall I think this is a great improvement.

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12/21/10 @ 8:12pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00

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Seems the HD video currently is only capable of displaying in 4:3 and not a widescreen ratios like 16:9 like the old codec setup. Is this going to be updated to support widescreen too ?

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12/21/10 @ 9:58pm (EST) |UTC - 5:00
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Seems the HD video currently is only capable of displaying in 4:3 and not a widescreen ratios like 16:9 like the old codec setup. Is this going to be updated to support widescreen too ?

Yes, just not in this first release. We have to do some custom stuff to get the necessary width/height information flowing through the system for the new video rooms re: the 16:9 aspect ratio. Normally we'd try to hold off until the 16:9 worked as well, but the quality improvements for 4:3 were just so great we felt it better to run with it.

Brad

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