User:C-3P0/Old StarWars.com videos

On this page you can find a list of the videos from the old StarWars.com video section. Unfortunately, with the redesign of the StarWars.com website in September 2011, many videos have been deleted and are not (yet?) transferred, while others are now viewable in a higher resolution.

This list has the purpose of helping Wookieepedians with correctly sourcing articles and finding more information about these (often exclusive) videos. While this list cannot replace the videos, it does contain the original titles, categories, durations and descriptions of the videos which are not saved on web.archive.org.

I encourage anyone to help with this list or point out errors on the talk page, but unfortunately I doubt someone has any additional information. Requests or questions on how to get these videos will not be answered here.

Detailed information
The old video section of StarWars.com has been active since April 2007 and contained approximately 1,000 videos.

The videos were internally divided into five channels:


 * 1) Exclusives: StarWars.com exclusive video
 * 2) Humor & Pop Culture: Humor & Pop Culture video
 * 3) Fan Movies: User Generated video
 * 4) Behind the Scenes: Behind the Scenes video
 * 5) All Videos: All StarWars.com video

They ranged from exclusive previews for The Clone Wars and video games as well as advertisements to Making Ofs, reports from conventions and events, as well as full episodes from The Clone Wars series, usually viewable only for a few weeks, and fan films in partnership with Atom.com.

Technical information
All videos were enumerated and could be viewed on http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000001.html (with 000001 being the id # of the video). The playlist for each video with the description and the URL of the thumbnail image was sent via http://www.starwars.com/webapps/video/item/000001 (with 000001 being the id # of the video) as a XML file. The thumbnails were saved at /img/video/thumbnails/ch1/yd_intro.jpg, with ch1 being the channel number and yd_intro the file name of the video.

The videos have been encoded into the FLV format with Sorenson Squeeze by Nicole Love (with a StarWars.com watermark added in the bottom left corner) and hosted on Akamai, a provider for streaming media, and totalled in file size of more than 20 GB. As a side note, Lucasfilm still uses Akamai for the current video section.

To view the videos, the Flash plugin was required, and the video player was hosted at http://www.starwars.com/swf/video/SWPlayer.swf. Most videos, especially the newer videos, had a resolution of 640x360 pixel (the new video section offers resolutions of 930x524 pixel).

For the full episodes from The Clone Wars series, StarWars.com geolocated the IP address of the visitor, only showing the video to US visitors.

Example xml file
 <![CDATA[ Exclusives ]]> /video/view/0000 <![CDATA[ StarWars.com exclusive video ]]> en-us <![CDATA[ You Can Draw: Getting Started ]]> /video/view/000001.html <![CDATA[ Artist Matt Busch, illustrator of the book You Can Draw: Star Wars, hosts helpful video tutorials full of tips on how to draw your favorite Star Wars characters. ]]>   <![CDATA[ You Can Draw Star Wars ]]> Apr 05, 2007 00:00 0000/0001/000001 4177936         0000/0001/000001 