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tom — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:56:30 +0100

longer latest videos

hey, just a random idea to make my life easy and maybe other users. was wondering if you could implement a drop down on the latest videos so show more in case you missed them, sometimes they slip of the front page and it makes them hard to find as i am intrested in watching the latest videos whatever they may be, so im not looking specfically for a certain catergory of show. it be nice to see either a drop down for the last 20 latest videos or a search function...

Some insides about the site

pokercast.tv — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:51:30 +0100

Well since the streaming update, not much happened.

but after HSP ended, I decided slowly that it would be good, as a reward for your fidelity, to make some changes.

This site has never been as many others are, that means, big enterprises doing investments . It's a one man operated site, and therefore , it takes a lots of work to be competitive in a daily basis, to be up to date.

It seems that poker tv show are appearing more and more often on cable tv, that means p...

Pseudo Streaming and video optimization

Administrator — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:02:57 +0100

I spent last 10 days working on a more reliable solution for streaming videos.

With some external help, it has been implemented on this site: a similar setup as youtube for instance, using lighttpd with its module h264

We get a bandwitch reduction and moreover the possibility to seek in the video's timeline, giving a lot more confort to users, especially with videos that are over 40 minutes average.

The system is running for few days now and it s seems to be o...

How to - Tutorial - Setting up ffmpeg

Administrator — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:42:45 +0100

I have recently been working on compiling ffmpeg from svn. doing a built from svn including all recent librairies, such as x264, latest lib theora and many others. Since the goal is the quality for this site and its future server, coming next month (we will be running a 2TO quad core , top notch box believe me) I m working on all server side installation..

Most of the aspects are pretty easy in fact. FFmpeg, so important for a video site, is pretty much the most complicated task tha...

For the few of you who will read this

Administrator — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:38:04 +0100

Since I have a poker site, I have been constantly struggling against everyone.

As a small unknown site, it is very hard to get advertized by bigger site. And there is several simple reasons for that:

Look at the following: you go to a forum and post a link to pokertube, no one will say shit about that. If you post about this site, then they ll call it spam. How funny is that, since from my point of views, videos available on here are way better than the one of the concurre...

Small mtt

tangerine — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:08:46 +0100

Yesterday I played a 5.5$ rb/addon

it started with 2880 players and I made 15.. just before the money prize was getting serious. Still a 220$ cash: I bought one rebuy and one addon

won my first mtt

Administrator — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:54 +0100

Since I am back at pokerstars, I decided to play some micro mtt's, mostly the 40k gtd 5$ RB/A that starts at night (in europe I mean).

I have been running very good I guess. Doing like 5 itm in 6 tournament. Yesterday I felt it wasn't going my way on the 5rb so I register for a 4.4$ 1k field capped, 2k gtd.. (pretty low yea..)

It was a 4 handed table, I gotta say this fit my donkey style way better than full ring.. really dislike fr..

I started running pretty ...

Mail server

Administrator — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:31:35 +0100

This server is up for over 2 weeks now and yet , we don't have any mailing system working..

When this doesn't seems a big issue, in fact it can be a problem: a public site should be able to be contacted for any kind of reasons.

Plus, users are not really able to interact between each others, new accounts can't be verified via link click confirmation, no newsletter... well , kinda bad right?

Let's hope this will be solved in the next few days ;)

x264 Video Compression = big success

Administrator — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:21:41 +0100

After some hours, Robert Swain from the ffmpeg project had done most of his job.

He tested mp4 conversions on several quality levels and commands; some results were incredibly good, using HD original video from vimeo, but as expected, very heavy sized.

He found a good consensus for .avi movies and I personally love the result. Just have a look at the latest Poker After Dark and it is really top notch.

So now on , I can seriously start working with videos.

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Videos settings being tested

Administrator — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:46:06 +0100

Since I am in charge of everything, this includes uploading latest videos.

Apart from this weird episode with 2M2MM that took over the rest for the last 2 months (lol indeed) , I thought time came to put serious stuff on here. Quality stuff, unlike this show.

For example, the season 6 of Poker After Dark is a big success in the general opinion: the line ...

2M2MM episode 7 - Not here

Administrator — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:55:22 +0100

Hi all I was ready to put the seventh part of the show, waiting like so many for its appearance somewhere on the internet. Then I decided to stop streaming this poker show. Since this started, pressure on people in the poker internet world have been made constantly in the way to stop "ilegal" files or streaming.

This started with Pokerbay.org that stopped to offer the torrent file, ...

New server

Administrator — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:07:00 +0100

Wow this has been a long week once again

I spent all this time setting up the server side config for your new server for pokercast.tv

So maybe you don't see any differences right now but theses things usually are not meant to be seen by average visitors.

But in concrete what you will benefit are:

Better videos: since the server is fully dedicated now, it provides a more reliable service for users, especially has it connects directly to a default 100mb/s...

2M2MM Ep 6 - 2 Months 2 Millions Ep 6

Administrator — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:53:07 +0100

Another week for the show.. It is available soon on here, prob next week

At the moment you are able to watch all episodes at http://www.freepokerbankroll.org/2M2MM-Ep-6.html

After tomorrow, I will probably change the host for www.bankrollbuilder.org

Where is Guy??

Mark Varela — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:17:00 +0100

Should be on the russian spaceship, gl to him

2M2MM ep 5

Administrator — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:17:51 +0100

2M2MM ep 5 is now available at this page

inside Pokercast.tv

Administrator — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:16:28 +0100

Hey all

This is another Tv show day on here. I know thousands would come to see if 2M2MM is available for streaming on this little place.

However, I have to tell you this is not possible anymore. The data center where this site is hosted just won't let me have it, nor even with some embed code.

And for what I have been reading when I tried to get some documentations about this issues, you can't even link to "illegal" copyrighted content.