Guess I Should Explain

Okay, so here is what exactly is going on with Veoh. They have an incredible price they have to pay for bandwidth. They host millions of downloads and uploads per-day. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that it is expensive to host that kind of bandwidth. In order for them to be able to afford to survive they had to make some cuts here and there. One of those cuts is the ability to download the files in the original format. When I wrote openVeoh I pulled the original file name and the extension from the information in the database and I name the file you download according to that. Well, as of late you may think you are downloading an AVI but in reality you are getting an FLV file. There is an exception to that rule however. If you are downloading from a publisher who has a “PRO” logo then you are getting the original file. Basically if you are a pro publisher you are paying to allow users to download the high-quality content. But for everyone else, too bad. Most people who watch videos on Veoh aren’t interested in downloading retarded shows that are posted by pro users. You are most likely wanting to watch a bit of anime or something cool like that. As you probably know, FLV is kind of lacking in quality and tends to be fuzzy and a bit glitchy. Like I said before, I’m not interested in busting my ass writing code to download videos in crappy quality. Hope that clears things up a bit.

Time To Move Else Where….

I have to say as much as this is irritating me and as much fun as I’ve had writing openVeoh that it is time to move on. Veoh just keeps killing features and spiraling downwards. Sadly enough I have no interest in doing essentially the same thing as many Firefox extensions already do and downloading FLV files. Veoh no longer offers the original videos files for download and all you can download is an FLV file from them. If you are looking to download great quality videos then I recommend going to Stage6 which doesn’t require a special client. I don’t know how much longer Stage6 will stick around but they have a pretty good collection of stuff. Also note that DivX has asked me not to write a Linux uploader since they have already added it to their road-map. I do have a new project in the works but I’m not going to disclose much about it yet since I haven’t figured out what all I’m going to do yet. From this moment, openVeoh is frozen. Use it while you can.

Sorry,

Daniel

openVeoh

Download Queue Removed For Now

I have went ahead and disabled the download queue in vget for now. After I fix the SQL stuff a little bit more and have more time to test it more rigorously I will add it back. If you would like to play with it you can uncomment all of the blocks of code in “openveoh/src/tools/vget/vget.cpp” and rebuild the sources.

Another bit of stupidity in my part

I didn’t think about this before but when I wrote the Makefiles I did it in a horrible fashion. You must do:

make clean

make

To build the new sources from what I’ve seen. I do this out of habit but some people may not realize this. Anyways, sorry about the bugs here lately. Guess I’m getting a bit sloppy in my old age 😉

Sorry About The Last Commit…

Alright, I would like to apologize about the last change I committed. Veoh changed their Firefox plug-in and I went ahead and added a new source to compensate for this change. However, when I committed the new Makefile I forgot to add the new source file. This has been somewhat of an annoyance for some people. This is now fixed… Please note the formatting on this file may be annoying since I am still stuck on Windows for a few days until I return home.

A shot in the foot with the download queue?

I almost feel like I shot myself in the foot with the download queue. So far I have received nothing but feedback with people having problems with it. I may just disable it in the sources until I can test it and work on it more.

I Know, I Know. Vget Is Broken!

Seems that in the last couple of days Veoh has changed some things and now openVeoh isn’t working correctly. If you are command line user then you have nothing to worry about, everything is peachy. However if you are using the Firefox plugin then you have problem been seeing the “Update Required!” page. I analyzed and fixed the plugin but for some reason it isn’t sending the links we need. I checked out their sources and the link still exists and still works. But it isn’t getting handed to vget properly. I will try to get this worked out today or tomorrow. I am awaiting Will (Veoh engineer) to be available so that I can complain to him a bit and try to get some answers. Will let you guys know when I know something.