EVE General Discussion

*cough* Bump

CCP Facebook linked to a video where someone used the final scene of the movie The Great Dictator in their CQ. I'm not sure if they actually are for people modifying the client since it could cause headaches for CCP because of inept people messing up the client, then yelling for help, but I haven't really seen anything yet telling people they cannot do it.

Technically it could be considered an EULA violation, but it makes for some really cool YouTube videos and I always suggest it to the Incarna Devs that this needs to be made into an actual feature.

Now keep in mind that the official rulings on EULA and TOS violations are decided by the GMs so if you haven't filed a petition and want some more information on this I suggest you bring it up with the GMs.

I know they are at least considering it. The discussion we had on it was all, "THIS IS AWESOME" and nobody disliked the idea of adding this, or something similar, to the CQ screen. Personally I'd like to see corporations and alliances make recruitment videos that can be broadcasted to other player's quarters and of course other player videos like Clear Skies or Spaceships are Magic. I'll poke around on Monday and see if I can find out any more information.

MAIN SCREEN TURN ON!

The only problem I can see is if people load clips from say movies or TV shows which could then break copyright laws.

wouldn't be more illegal than playing the clips in your local movie player...

/c

If you end up against some "upper management" types who want to put the kabosh on this, you need only go to the player base for support. There is something very cool about being able to port videos into CQ and with further development, players will be able to set up channels, have recruitment videos, and such things as you mention, without having to draw on the game resources.
However I sense that there are dark forces of yuppiedom at work in every aspect of life that always finds a reason to deny what is good in the world, and then repackage it and sell it back to us at half the strength and twice the cost. Just let us port Youtube or whatever video stream into the client, even a VLC player port (anyone can set up streaming with VLC media player - Eve Radio stream can be ported by a player), and the players will do the rest. Don't let some bean-counter or lawyer-minded sort prevent this.

Very true but CCP could not be held liable for what you play on your own computer.

I would love to be able to stream video in Eve.. I could watch the football in my own Quarters :)

For those looking for proof of possible future custom video features, there's been a video sub folder in the eve cache folder since August or so.