Sometimes the player gets crazy here too!!

Yea I found that, too. More often than that, the playback stutters, especially at times the site might experience high traffic. I guess this happens because the video now gets embedded using html5 rather than using quicktime like it used to be.

Yea for a while I was thinking it might be my machine, the playback is just really jittery, and laggy, atleast I am not the only one who noticed, and agreed edwin, some great entries so far, I still have more voting to do.

I had problems, too. I thought it was just my laptop. The video kept freezing while the audio kept playing... a lot of times I just thought the animation was unfinished or something, but when I played it again the video was fine.

Speaking of the audio, did anyone else notice that a lot of people left off the last part of the audio? The "swipe" noise.

bog wrote:

Can you all note what browser you're using and version?

here....

firefox 5 = very bad playblack, even after the video is completely load.

explorer 8 = smooth playblack

bog wrote:

Can you all note what browser you're using and version?

Firefox 6.0.1

looks like a firefox issue so far.

I'm using the latest Firefox, but it doesn't seem to be every video for me, just some (such as my own). Dunno if that helps!

@characteranim78, you wouldn't believe how much time I've spent ensuring that our encoder doesn't introduce sync issues for the majority of uploads.  I've listened to many encodes frame by frame, 100ms by 100ms to ensure we're encoding things properly.  I've found we're often more accurate than YouTube.  That said, we get a lot of different formats thrown at us, and some of them cause issues.  That's why we have articles helping people to encode to formats we know won't cause sync issues.  Whenever I see a major sync issue while approving the entries, I check what the user uploaded, and 99% of the time, it's in the actual file uploaded in addition to ours which means it was either animated that way, or the user introduced the issue when they encoded it.  So, if you have specific examples, let me know, and I can get you the originals to compare.

@all, as to the HTML5 video issues: HTML5 is still a very new standard.  I've ensured the player works reasonably well in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and IE9.  But, I can't test every version on every platform.  If you're having issues, please let me know EXACTLY what version you're using on what operating system and version.  Thanks!

I use google chrome, which one works fine?

bog wrote:

@characteranim78, you wouldn't believe how much time I've spent ensuring that our encoder doesn't introduce sync issues for the majority of uploads.  I've listened to many encodes frame by frame, 100ms by 100ms to ensure we're encoding things properly.  I've found we're often more accurate than YouTube.  That said, we get a lot of different formats thrown at us, and some of them cause issues.  That's why we have articles helping people to encode to formats we know won't cause sync issues.  Whenever I see a major sync issue while approving the entries, I check what the user uploaded, and 99% of the time, it's in the actual file uploaded in addition to ours which means it was either animated that way, or the user introduced the issue when they encoded it.  So, if you have specific examples, let me know, and I can get you the originals to compare.

@all, as to the HTML5 video issues: HTML5 is still a very new standard.  I've ensured the player works reasonably well in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and IE9.  But, I can't test every version on every platform.  If you're having issues, please let me know EXACTLY what version you're using on what operating system and version.  Thanks!

Def sounds like a firefox issue, and Bog I trust you have done plenty of work, so please don't  think otherwise, It def must be my process of making the movies, because it never fails I get ripped apart on lip sync but on my end it was pretty darn spot on, in my experience making flv and then uploading to the web has always given me good results, but maybe its biting me in the ass for the competition.