Sprkus

The video section of Sprkus.com has finally been retooled.

Instead of linking directly to the videos which forced a visitor to the site to have to wait for the whole video to download before it could be played, I’ve uploaded the videos to Google Video enabling me to stream the videos on my site similar to how videos are handled on YouTube.

The video’s are unlisted, so nobody can find them by doing a Google search. They’re still only available on my site. But by using Google Video, visitors can view them instantly.

I first tried using YouTube, but the functionality was very sporadic. Most often, the video would never play. It would just provide a loading symbol and never actually load anything.

Google Video, even though it’s still in its beta testing, performed perfectly for me. There were some server errors when uploading videos, but they play perfectly on the site.

There are no new videos on the site, but classics like the “Dickey Chronicles” and Baumann and Van Culin on The People’s Court never get old.