A bit of a bummer about the filesize

it is very good news and we should not complain about the ability for fast divx and even though i am not willing there a lot of people who will split and upload happily for a bit of quality, if this plan continues it will be nothing but good news...

Megaupload videos aren't streaming. I'm assuming they're down.

Vreel has gone and fucked shit up proper again....



after click on "free view" apparently you have to wait 8 minutes before watching.

...tonight i tried to watch this http://beta.vreel.net/watch_13226.html and i got the same message as SEB,only difference is mine said wait 5min, i dont mind waiting for 5min in order to watch a film but by the time the countdown timer went to 04.59sec, 13min had elapsed,so yeah i agree with SEB, VREEL fucked up big time...

Firefox users that have the Greasemonkey add-on, I did a very simple script to bypass the timer.
If you don't already have greasemonkey, you can install it from Here. (restart Firefox after installing the add-on)
Once greasemonkey is installed and enabled, click this link to install my one line script: Userscript

Important announcement: Jan 29th I come to you today with some difficult news to deliver. Firstly, some of you may have noticed our intermittent downtime over the past day - this will likely continue tomorrow, as we are switching to a new host in order to cut some costs off of our budget. (Backbone server host - we still maintain our global delivery network)

The last few months have been extremely difficult for myself in managing VReel, and having to make some decisions which can be viewed as harsh from our free members in feature restriction. These restrictions were placed down in order to curb our growth as much as possible - being at previous popularity levels (450,000~ visitors per day) would have amounted to both a horrendously large running cost, and our advertisers literally not having enough ads to serve to all of our users.

Regardless, although we have slowed our growth to an acceptable level, advertisers are crashing all around us. While some might say that a Business Plan formulated six months ago is literally useless today, I would go further than that - I would state that one formed a month ago is meaningless now. Following the financial crash of 2008, advertisers were paying roughly around 40% less than their usual amounts - we're now probably closer to the 5-6% range. I would not expect advertisers to begin recovering from this until Q3 2009, and spend the following two years licking their wounds.

Currently, I would expect VReel to start turning a profit around May/June 2009. While we do have some funding left in our bank accounts, I am currently seeking a buyer for VReel. I believe that the community members of VReel have worked incredibly hard with myself, the staff, and eachother to create VReel "In their own vision" - as claimed as the only true "Stage6 Successor", with most websites falling apart at the seams after mere days on the scene, the community here has banded through thick and thin and waded out some extremely difficult times to eventually come out on top.

I am of the firm belief that all of you deserve to stick with eachother, and continue creating what I believe is one of the best community and video websites on the planet - and I can't tell you how proud I am to have been a part of it all. It's without a doubt brought me some of the happiest times of my life, and introduced me to so many people that I'll never forget. I do not believe that my bowing out should result in all of you being disbanded - and will ensure that VReel.net survives for all of you to stick by eachother.

VReel has become so important to me over the past year that it's literally become a real attachment to myself - selling it on is not a decision that I or any of our staff want to make, but may be neccessary for the continued survival of VReel through the roughest economic climate we've ever experienced. Please bare in mind that we will do everything we can to keep VReel running under its current administration - my looking for a buyer at the moment is only to protect the community in a financial "end of times" in the case of worst coming to worst.

To reiterate - none of you should be worried about this. What I'm currently doing is simply to ensure that in a case where the financial climate continues to worsen, the only result will be myself stepping down as VReel's Owner/Architect.

Thanks for reading, and as usual - I'm more than happy to answer any queries you might have

my inbox had this message in it (even though i have marked vreel's communications as spam)
how much would someone pay for a dog like vreel with huge amounts of debt incurred already? whoever would be interested in vreel would have to have brain damage because of the mess that eoin has brought it to.

here's a link to the post i have copied here. http://vreel.net/board/showthread.php?t=3468

also Supernovatube has an advertisement to watch their videos with the vlc player, when you mouse over it it has some zango address, below is the link as you see it on SNT.

Watch this Video in High Definition with VLC Player (Free)

i never clicked on it, but i wanted to let people know it is a link to videolan just as much as the banner advertisement on QSS forums is a link to emule.

Vreel is down.

Are RGhost links not working for eveyone? I just get this:

Access to the file was restricted: no movies

Tomorrow we will restrict movie upload to our servers.

There are many reasons for this step: high disk & network load, disk space shortage, copyright holders complaints.

We apologize and hope you understand.

UPDATE (Feb, 03) : There are a lot of movies blocked automatically. If your video was mistakenly blocked, write a comment or email us. You have 7 days before it will be deleted.

I just tried 2 links using FF windows xp and had success with both thanks mrbrownee70 for all your hard work

when i hear things like that there is tears...

risky business?is that always your test video?haha...but ye i am gettin 403s like a mad man,even when i use the old method i still have trouble with the streaming,godam 0%