Throw Cans, Upload Video, Become Famous
It seems that you only need a crazy idea, record everything on video and upload it to YouTube to become famous. Five friends from France decided to record their (successful) attempts of throwing empty cans into trashbins and upload a video with their best scenes to YouTube.
They released two videos on YouTube. Their second one received more than 1.5 million views which is pretty impressive. I think one reason for the success of the two movies is that everyone can try what is shown in the videos individually as it is all about throwing trash into trashcans. The videos are well done and enjoyable, have fun watching them.
A lot of copycats movies have been uploaded to YouTube after the initial release, maybe we will see a professional can throwing league one day?
I'm a little bit puzzled that no waste removal organization has yet hired the guys to promote proper waste removals. Think it would be ideal as they could reach the young crowd which may not yet have the same sense of responsibility that many adults have. I'm not saying that all adults throw trash into trashcans, no, there are certainly enough who do not care about the environment as well and simply throw their trash on the street or where ever they happen to be in at that moment in time.
Update: The second video has been removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim. The first however is still available and embedded above.
Update 2: The second video has also been removed due to a copyright claim. You find a best of video below that is considerable shorter than the two first videos but still highlights some of the throws.
Here is a second video that is equally as impressive. While it is not only about throwing cans it shows some throwing abilities as well that you may be interested in.
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Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?