ALL MEMBERS & PEOPLE POSTING TONS OF VIDEO NOW PLEASE READ
 

With all the bandwith problems Alex has been having around here things are not going to get much better if not worse now with people trying to post videos trying to access the videos section. The biggest way everyone can help around here right now is to make a cap of the video you are uploading because bandwith is being used up on downloading stuff that has already been seen hundreds of times. alot of bandwith would be saved if you made one simple cap with the video you upload . There is NO excuse not to because there are many FREE ways to do this. The one i use for everything is the bs player all you do is simply hit the p key and you have a nice jpeg of the video & it caps 99% of all videos that i play. Here is the link to download the free player http://www.bsplayer.org/ capping your videos should be a must before things get out of hand around here with so many videos getting posted now. Please help the bandwith problem by doing this " there is no excuse not to " By the way i know i have been gone a long time but i have just got a whole new system and i am working on brand new stuff for the OCC right now. I'll be able to get back posting on a regular basis very soon :) Kitt 5000

Looking forward to your return Kitt and couldn't agree with the above comments more. Please everyone, post caps. It really does only take an extra minute and will be a great help.
:)

Not to make too fine a point, nor single anyone out, but a lot of stuff is being uploaded now that
has been around for years. Also, as long as I'm whining, why start a new thread for each new part
of the same video series? It just clutters the pages and pushes the other threads down.

I couldn't agree more about including a cap or two, it ain't rocket science.

It really helps to see a cap because some of us have a modem and slow phone line connection. When you waste ten minutes downloading a vid you all ready have you just wasted time better spent downloading something else.

Thanks

I totally agree as well, and you all make a good point. I have noticed several reposts and/or very old videos lately and felt I wasn't helping the cause by downloading something I didn't need. My brother told me about BSPlayer but I never got around to trying it out. If anyone else would like to recommend other alternatives to capping, please feel free to post it in this thread, until hopefully everyone will find something that suits them and we can greatly reduce all the bandwidth usage. This site is way to good to let any ignorance or laziness get in the way. Finding good vids for this site should be a priority, but so should doing our part to keep it running smoothly.

It's good to see you agian kitt 5000.

The vidcaps really make a big difference. There is a thread here that gives advice on making vidcaps:

Tutorial: How to make vidcaps

Hopefully people that are new to posting videos will get the message and start adding vidcaps.

I would also encourage any other members to help out by making vidcaps of some of the recent posts that are lacking vidcaps. Everyone would apreciate it.

Thanks,

Just tried out BSPlayer and while I don't like it for viewing, damn it sure does make "capping" easy as hell. I just capped every vid I downloaded this evening (at least I don't feel like such a slacker now :) ); there shouldn't be any reason for uploaders not to do it. It takes a whole extra 30 seconds per video.

I have to agree...
 

There's nothing more irritating than downloading something you have seen or have had for years. I recently made my first upload and I had no problem uploading caps cuz I know how it feels. I use zoomplayer, Alt F gets a framegrab with that. Easy peasy.

from download.com
 

i use no. 1 video converter it is free from download.com
however many frames per second u want
downloads in bmp but use any picture editor to convert to jpg
easy interface had no problems with any format
supposed to convert from one format to aniother too

I assume all of the suggestions made here apply only to PC's. Does anyone know of a (free) program that will make vidcaps for .wmv files and will work on a Mac? There is one called "Play it Cool", that I know will do caps from .mpg's. It only works on System 9, but that is good enough.

Another tip
 

I found that, early in my experience with OCC, I reposted a couple of things that I had downloaded from OCC. To avoid doing that, I have created an "OCC" file, so that I know I got the vid from OCC and there's no way I'm going to repost it.

Hey jawsfun or Kitt 5000, or anyone else who can help me with BSplayer capping. I'm trying everything I can think of, and nothing seems to be working. I checked the preferences to make sure I was hitting the right key(s), etc. All I keep getting is similar to the pic shown here. Could someone perhaps explain exactly what they're doing. Maybe I'm just missing one little step or something. Thanks.

cross platform vid capping
 

Dear All,

Use MPlayer (Linux: www.mplayerhq.hu, Windows: www.mplayerhq.hu, MacOSX: mplayerosx.sf.net) to create vidcaps: run this: (mplayer -ao null -vo jpeg -frames 1 VIDEO_FILENAME). The created vidcap will be 00000*.jp*g in the folder you started mplayer from.

For XP users:
 

For those running Windows XP, just throw the clip into MovieMaker and play it. On the bottom right just below where the vid plays, there is a little button that looks like a camera; click that and it'll take a picture of what is in your little movie screen.

This is literally one click capping; just click and say where you want to save the cap (I default mine to the desktop so that I can delete it as soon as I post the vid). :)

Tons of Reposts .This not helping THE OCC
 

With all the problems of late nothing is more irritating then seeing this happening. People that have never bothered to post are flooding the forum with reposts. Please before posting look at the vid or pic if its been out their all over the web its been posted by now here. Check the past posts before uploading.

Thanks
 

Thanks for the recommendation. MovieMaker locks up a lot and I couldn't find anything else that worked. So far I haven't had a problem with BSPlayer.

Well I finally figured out what my problem was. I had to go into preferences and switch from YV12 format to YUY2 format. In case anyone else is having the same difficulty.

I was Having The Same Problem
 

Thanks for clearing that up. I was having the same problem. Over the past few weeks I've been trying to find ways to contribute more, I thought vid capping some of the threads that had not already been capped would be an easy way to do so. However, I could not get BSplayer to work properly. Now I have that problem fixed thanks in large part to your explanation of the problem. Again, thanks for your help.

In the interest of conserving bandwidth, a "thanks" for every new thread is being discouraged.
I definately agree when the intent is to boost one's post count. However, if I sense that somebody has
put forth a little extra effort, I feel a thank you is in order. We each have our own areas of special interest,
and if a contribution trips my own trigger, I will respond positively. Much of what I've posted is my own stuff,
and its nice to know whether somebody liked it.

I'd like to add that the message about caps with a video post seems to be working. Thanks.

VidCapping in Mac OS
 

To make vid caps in Mac OS 7-9.x I pause the video and then use Command-shift-4. This gives you a cross-hair that you use to outline the area of the screen you want to save. The area you save shows up on your hard drive as a simple text document called "Picture". Rename it with .jpg extension.
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come on let's all make vidcaps of what we post, it takes us 10 seconds and we save Alex and the rest of people lots of time