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Contents 1 Segments that won't play 2 Untitled segments 3 List guidelines 4 Title 5 More in the future 6 title?

Segments that won't play

I've been watching a bunch of clips, but for some reason, Baker #3 won't play. Has anybody else run into this? -- Ken (talk) 19:10, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

It's the whole beta thing; some segments won't play, the list gets jumbled between pages, etc. Hopefully it will be different soon...it has to. Grover said so. -- MuppetDude 19:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I've had this problem with "A: Alligator". Everytime I click on it, it doens't play. --Minor muppetz 21:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Untitled segments

What should we do for video clips that don't have any titles or descriptions on the site? There are a handful of such clips, where the search engine only shows an image. Such clips include a sketch where a salesman wants to sell Bob a circle. I forget what other nameless, descriptionless segments were there. Maybe we can put in a section for clips with no given title, and include a brief description? --Minor muppetz 19:16, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

For now, I'd say make a list here. Park them, with the best description you have, and most importantly, noting which *keyword* you used to find the clip. When we get an idea of how many we're dealing with, then we can decide how to integrate them. Also, if you haven't already, in the feedback section for the player, let Sesame Workshop *know* which skits don't have descriptions or keywords visible. Andrew Leal (talk) 19:20, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if this keyword rule for untitled sketches is a good thing. Today I wanted to watch that Bob and circle salesman sketch, and typed in "salesman", but that sketch is no longer included in that category. Weird. --Minor muppetz 18:25, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I just tried it, and it showed up. -- MuppetDude 18:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

It's a good thing because how else can one find the sketch? And like Tony, I just checked; the sketch is still there, on the third page, for "salesman". All the sketches now on this page without keywords really need them, because otherwise it's incredibly difficult to locate the sketch since the description is made-up. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 18:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't know why I didn't find it earlier (I checked all three "salesman" pages). But I did search for some other "untitled" segments earlier, and oddly enough, the images in the seacrh results for soem are just black screen (from either before the clips start or after they fade to black). That does make it confusing. I think I'll write to Sesame Workshop in their feedback section later today (though I have before, and have never gotten any responses). --Minor muppetz 18:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

It appears that SW may be intentionally leaving some titles blank. A search for "seven" does not bring up "Jazz #7", and the "C"--Carrot animation does not show up when one types in "carrot", "rabbit", or "bunny". -- MuppetDude 20:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, Grover does say that it's a beta version (whatever that means), so it's not surprising that things change. I think all we can do is keep the list updated to the best of our knowledge. user:Toughpigs 00:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

List guidelines

I'm all for the list (at least until SW should redesign it for easier access), but there seems to be a debate between editors as to how the segments should be formatted: should the titles be capitalized? And should the list be broken into different sections based on the alphabetical order (A # section, then A, then B, etc.)? -- MuppetDude 16:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Going through the history, I don't see any debates or variants at all as far as capitalizing titles; everyone's been doing that for the first letters, and the only difference happened exactly once when Brad added a bunch of all caps entries and immediately reformatted them (the only problem, which Danny left a clear note about, was using the precise titles Sesame Workshop uses, for easier searching). Since the list has grown in such a short time, though, breaking it up alphabetically might be a good idea. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 17:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Title

Reopening this thread from December... In the opening, Grover says "This is the Sesame Street Video Player!" I think Grover trumps the site graphic, which isn't really even there anymore. Can we move this to Sesame Street Video Player? -- Danny (talk) 18:28, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm fine with that. Who are we to contradict Grover? -- Andrew Leal (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

More in the future

Muppet Central's has a news article about the video player here. The article, written by Phil Chapman, says in two places that there's more coming:

• "The great news is that a lot more is yet to come in 2008."
• "And the great news is that Sesame Workshop will continue to dig even deeper into their archives and will be adding even more classic clips in the future."

Anybody know if there's a source for those predictions? -- Danny (talk) 00:52, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

As far as the video player goes and more clips, the best way to find out might be to ask. There's a feedback button at the bottom. I left an e-mail already regarding technical issues, and received a response this morning. Probably someone might also be able to answer any questions about content and future plans (though they could just be prioritizing questions and comments about how the player is functioning for different machines and connections). -- Andrew Leal (talk) 01:00, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

According to Phillip's forum post, Sesame Workshop are the ones that told him that many more clips would be added in 2008. -- Brad D. (talk) 06:57, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

title?

We might want to move this to Sesame Street Web Video Player or sesameworkshop.org Web Video Player or something similar. If anyone thinks there's good enough reason to be more specific. Also, I placed the debut date as the first week of December 2007. We found it today (I heard from Tony on the ToughPigs forum), but it could have been up for a few days (but certainly not as much as a few weeks since I check the site fairly often). —Scott (talk) 02:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I had contacted Sesame Workshop through their feedback link about some issues and in their responce they refered to the service as "the Sesame Street Video Player - Beta". I think "Web Video Player", as used in the one site graphic is describing the video player/application, whereas "Sesame Street Video Player" (used in the email responce, and also featured in the subject title on the feedback page) is more of the overall service/collection title. Although the page header and logo refers to it as "Sesame Street Videos - Beta". I think putting Sesame into the tile would be best because there are so many web video players out there, that calling this article simply "web video player" that is somewhat confusing and vague. -- Brad D. (talk) 07:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Also, to further the title "Sesame Street Video Player". Grover calls it such in his video introduction. -- Brad D. (talk) 04:20, 13 December 2007 (UTC)