Tuesday, 1 November 2011

My list of movies, updated!

I wanted to do something with this page, so I asked my good friend TaTooKa, who has helped me out with HTML coding a few times in the past, to walk me through this one as well.

Sure enough, he agree, and we embarked on an epic quest to make my page not suck balls. Basically, all I did was add mouse-over dropdown menus for each of the items, so you can see more detailed info on the movie. It took about half an hour to fix a bug in our code, and then a bunch more time for it all to actually be written. The page is only about 1/4 done right now, because I'm writing everything by hand, and it's not very fast this way.

The only thing to be wary of is that these filesizes are the sizes of the movie files ONLY, so if the download is a .rar or .zip, it's probably bigger than what's written on my page, because there are other files inside. Or, it could be up to a few megabytes smaller, because there's only one file, and it's been compressed (although most of these use incredible compression, so there isn't much more space to be saved).

I'm thinking of adding the MD5 and editor's names to the info sections, but I don't know if that's the best idea. Editor's name, sure, but MD5 seems pointless for most of these because you won't know if your file is broken or anything unless you extract the archive, but if you extract it without errors, then your file isn't broken. Even if they weren't pointless in that respect, it just seems like an unnecessary waste of space. Nobody really cares, anyway. If the video doesn't play, or gives an error, then try fixing it, or re-download it.

Also, all of these files are hosted by Maverick, and they will continue to be. Every update I make to the list will be hosted only by Maverick himself, that means no megaupload, no youtube, no fileshare, nothing. This is best for everyone, though, because his site is "ad-free", he doesn't encrypt the URLs, and he has incredible speeds.

Any movie I download and consider high enough quality to add to this list, I will add. If any of the TWO or THREE people reading this even CARE, then suggest what sorts of things I should add to the info sections, or what I should add to the page itself. I might not replace the download buttons, just because they're so $$. I might add a stream one, though, and if the file isn't on youtube, I could upload it, or get Maverick to upload it (it would be nice to have both a stream and download available for all movies).

Since I now have limited access to Maverick's file tree, I might take a look at what movies he has there, and download any that look interesting.

This seems almost like a substitute for own-age.com! HA! AS IF! Still, it's pretty nice if I do say so myself.

HERE YOU GO!

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