Woodman Forum - chat with pierre woodman

Happy new year, Pierre and the support team!

Do you have any plans to upgrade the streaming experience on the website? There are two things that I'd very much like to see:

- Streaming in 4K
- A 'theater mode' where the video player gets bigger, but doesn't take up the full screen, like in YouTube.

I'm using a 27-inch 5K iMac and the video player is tiny!

The 4K downloads look superb. It would be amazing to get this quality (or something close to it) on the streaming video.

You've already got the best videos on the web. It would be great to see them in their full glory in the web browser!

Best wishes for 2019!

As maybe you have understood, I love the 4K quality and I'm always the first or second to start shoot with a new video format.
This site has been the first in Europe to propose the download of 4K videos but sadly if I propose the Streaming in 4K, that will cost me twice more than I already spend at the moment and I need more support for that.
If I had 10 000 members I could do many things I wish to do but I'm tired to spend and spend if at the end people prefer help piracy ...

PW

Regarding costs of 4 k streaming:

https://vimeo.com/upgrade

seems they offer unlimited bandwith

I think you don't get it !!!
I can do the 4K streaming from tomorrow if I want but the thing is I paid already a big amount to various worldwide servers I use to let you see my work.
4K means much heavier the bandwich and also much longer the encoding of the videos on these servers !!!
I was thinking to make a surprise to all members for January 10.2019 ( 10 years birthday of the site ) but I need feel support from you guys for this over cost in time and money it will represent for me ...
But OK I will analyse now with my team what will have cost me 2017 if all 1080p streaming was made in 4K and maybe I will give you this soon.

PW

For those who want to ‘stream’ 4K from WCX or other site to a UHD Tv or pc/laptop (also other streaming devices as chromecast,Roku, appletv…) you will need a STEADY internet connection delivering at least (read minimal) 25Mbps continuously. A 4K movie is about 7 to10 Gb of volume for an hour.so viewing a lot of 4K porn will have an impact on your subscription fee if you haven’t ‘unlimited download volume’

In europe most internet providers if you take a real high speed don't care so much of much streaming you do but download is another story.
My 4K videos on the site are 13 GB by hour ...
In USA it's a problem as they are really in later compare to Europe and specialy east europe or Asia who give much better internet.
When I am in L-A, it's a nightmare the net.

PW

Or perhaps offer 4K streaming as a premium tier of membership? The idea is to get the best video quality, not to bankrupt the site!

What about the theater mode? That is, allowing the video window to be resized in the browser? That wouldn't require any changes to the video itself, just revising your page layout.

I'll not do theater mode, I have enough work like that !!!

PW