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 ::For the record, screenshot thumbnails are generated automatically by the wiki, and they are extremely small. Dialup can load that sandbox in no time, trust me. In fact, I just downloaded one just to check. [http://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/images/thumb/d/d1/Brawl-RSBE01-1584.jpg/120px-Brawl-RSBE01-1584.jpg 4KB]. Yea, that'll bring your browser to a crawl :P. Anyway, we can have any as many screenshots as we want on the page, without worrying about load times. The only reason for a cap on the videos is because they were causing a stall as browsers loaded them, due to the crappiness of the flash plugin. As for the one video of each type thing, I don't think that's a good idea, simply because we only have so many videos to pick from. I think we should just pick the best ones, taking into account HD, any glitches present, and overall quality of it. - [[User:MaJoR|MaJoR]] ([[User talk:MaJoR|talk]]) 13:46, 8 November 2012 (CET)
 ::Okay, I didn't know the wiki generated the thumbs, so that's good news. Alright then we'll see how it plays out without the cap. And yes, we don't have videos for every game, but I hope people will post their videos here now that the forum threads also link to the wiki. If there are enough videos then what I said could be applied, if you all agree with it ofcourse. I just think that it'll be more interesting to have different parts of the game shown than just the same gameplay style. Generally we'll want the best possible videos to show off Dolphin yes. Glad we agree. :P - [[User:Garteal|Garteal]] ([[User talk:Garteal|talk]]) 13:53, 8 November 2012 (CET)
+:OK, here are my thoughts:
+:*'''Number of items''':
+:**As already mentioned, the in wiki image resize should handle screenshots fairly smoothly, unless someone goes really crazy.
+:**It would be preferable if an ad hoc number of things could be used for either, though I understand the limitations of starting up many copies of the Flash player. The ideal here might be to generate a fancier embedvideo go between template that could:
+:***Accept an arbitrary list of videos (preferably inclusive of those outside of YouTube).
+:***Select a random position in the list (1 to length-3) if longer than 3 elements.
+:***Display 3 videos from that position
+:***Perhaps if we really wanted to get fancy actively rotate through the full list of videos
+:::...the main goal to enable long video lists without requiring significant admin overhead to review/prune them.
+:*'''Listing videos post embedded videos''': Not sure how much I like this, since it will mean going through some process to review and select how to handle each new video >3.
+:*'''Pruning/Selection Rules (Though I don't like them)''':
+:**I don't think the videos should necessarily be "recorded without any emulator glitches", unless we intend to separate bug related videos into the problems section. Some games simply can't be played without glitches, and I'd still like to capture video of them. Also some glitches can be difficult to describe/communicate outside of videos. Perhaps this is just a matter of where glitchy videos are located on the page (Gameplay Videos vs Problems).
+:**HD/Higher resolution should be preferred
+:**Non-camera sources should be preferred (i.e. there are a number of videos recorded with handheld cameras that tend to be of low quality compared to in machine captures)
+:**Outside of cases of compatibility losses (i.e. 3.0-113 breaks XXX, so we keep video from 3.0-112), videos of more recent releases should be preferred.
+:***This one I'm cautious of, mainly since I feel the older videos do a better job of capturing past compatibility than test entries do. Again probably just a difference of where video links are included (i.e. Testing vs Gameplay Videos)
+:*'''Unrelated Side Issue''': The current layout for embedded videos when wrapped position oddly, seems like a misused float:right or text-align:right somewhere.
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