English RSS German RSS| Générations Digitales released |
02-01-2010 16:52:34 - X2X
If you want to know more about the documentary, just watch the trailer (Featured Video for this week) or read the following summary:
Générations Digitales brings you to the heart of the gaming community of Trackmania. Real dive in one of the many communities of the internet, Générations Digitales tackles a variety of topics concerning: the use of the Internet, the creative aspect in the formation of sharing groups, the unifying factor, as well as the steady decline of the attraction of television at the hands of the interactive media Internet.
With more than 5 million players, Trackmania is certainly representative of the diversity of use generated by a video game in "connected" mode. From the simple entertaining tool for some, to tool box pushing to create for others; meet a gallery of over 40 people aged 12 to 55 years, all passionate gamers recounting their experiences and feelings.
See how many uses are made of the game Trackmania, from gamers’ meetings to the school bench!
Participative Web; will to invest the space, the creative potential of each; as many components that are completely changing the media landscape and pushes us to thinking about the uses of tomorrow.
| Movie-O-Matic: New article series at Trackmania.se |
01-23-2010 21:19:06 - X2X
UPDATE: Third article online: Movie-O-Matic #3: TEK9 contest & GSA On The Road 2 & KarjeN - Betten Than Good & Bugs On Fire
UPDATE: Second article online: Movie-O-Matic #2: Team WebOne - The Movie
With "Movie-O-Matic" RoB starts a new series of video related articles on the Swedish Trackmania community page Trackmania.se (article language is English). The articles contain information and a detailed review of certain featured videos and will be published every one or two weeks.
In the first issue, RoB reviews the current featured video "Nitrolicious 2" regarding soundtrack, quality and editing.
Just take a look at the first article here :)
For everyone, who can understand German language, the German Trackmania Blog "TManiacs" also features a new video related article series. Just switch to the German TM-Tube version, to read the news regarding that ;)
| Official TM-Tube IRC channel: #tm-tube @ QuakeNet |
01-04-2010 23:08:14 - X2X
Additionally there is a bot in the channel, which announces new videos at TM-Tube, models/skins at Carpark and news of other TrackMania websites, so you are always informed, if you stay in the channel. In the next few weeks, we will add more features.
| ManiaCity track released! |
12-23-2009 19:00:44 - X2X
To play the track, you'll need the Mediapack, which you can grab either from TM-Tube or from TM-Creative.
We don't recommend you to play the track with very high graphic settings, cause it takes a lot of performance (you should have at least 2 GByte of RAM to play it).
If you want to use the 3d objects in your own track, you should pay attention to the Christmas Special: All 3d models can be downloaded for only 10 Coppers from the 23rd until the 25th of December 2009 at the Manialink ManiaCity.
| Official StarTrack-Update for TMUF launched! + Gameserver |
11-26-2009 23:10:56 - X2X
(France|Nord-Pas de Calais|Nord|tm-tube'startrack)
Please note, that this update won't work with Trackmania Nations Forever, you'll need United Forever to play the new tracks!
The update will be downloaded automatically, when you start the TMUF Launcher, but if you want, you can download it directly from TM-Tube (maybe a bit faster in the next days):
http://www.tm-tube.com/downloads/TmUnitedForever_StarEdition_Update.exe
| CCCxkCCC - lolwhat? |
11-19-2009 18:45:07 - X2X
You can upload your creations at cccxkccc.tk, a page especially created for this contest. You can do this until the 24 December 2009, after that date, your creations will be rated by a jury. The results will be published early in January 2010.
You can win a lot of virtual cash, at the moment there are 221,000 Coppers in the jackpot. If you want to help filling it, send your copper donations to the TMUF login leader - the more coppers are being donated, the more coppers are available for the winners ;)
More information are available soon on the international and French TM forums.
| GIGA Homepage Award + Video conversion tutorial |
09-21-2009 17:13:15 - X2X
To win this round and get access to the finals, we need you - the community! Just click every day on the logo at the top of this news and vote for tm-tube.com. Although the page is in German, it's really easy: just decide about your star rating (5 stars = the best ;D) and click the "Voten" button at the bottom of the page.
So, let's show them the power of the international TrackMania community! :)
But please be fair and don't use any cheat tools!
By the way: if you haven't found optimal settings for video conversion yet, just take a look at the new conversion tutorial written by community member gecko235 (Thanks!). He made a detailed overview for the most common file types, so you will never have any problems with video encoding anymore.
| Update: TM-Tube 2.1 |
09-01-2009 21:19:22 - X2X
Thanks for your patience guys! Finally here is the new TM-Tube feature update 2.1 now. This is the first update, which has been made according to the feedback by the community. So here are the changes:
- Finally a really fast TM-Tube - we've fired the old FLV format and are using MP4 with the H.264 codec for the videos now. That means, that your videos will have a smaller filesize (= they'll load much faster now) - without any quality loss. Au contraire - the quality will be better now, as the video size is now FullHD (1280x720). To ensure maximum performance, we've got a brand new extremly fast server for TM-Tube, which will also speed up the conversion times for example.
- We've updated our ViMP Media Player to the newest version, which is much more performant and easier to use. There is also a new embedding code, where you can use again at last the Video-IDs instead of the Media-Key. So, website and forum admins: please update your code ;)
- Oh well, how many times was I asked by you to do that - so I did it: you can now switch the Video-Top 3 between the classic All-Time-Top 3 and the new Best of the week Top 3. I hope, you are satisfied now :D
- Save the scroll wheel of your mouse - the little rodent will thank you. To help you with that intend, we've minimized the scrolling: only five news on the front page,the video comment form is now above the comments and your guestbooks are now smaller and extendable with a simple click.
- As we are not a dating community, I've removed the senceless relationship status from your profiles - please use your local party establishments to find a partner!I've also removed the Audio-boxes - we won't ever allow you to upload music, you should better buy it!
- What did they say?! No more foreign language E-Mails - all mails are now written in English, so that you don't have a problem to understand the mail, if someone from another country sent you a PM/friend request/whatever. I've also fixed language problems with the editor forms.
- You can now drag-and-drop videos in Playlist mode, so it's easier for you to create and share your playlists.
The FAQ has also been updated a little bit, the updates are marked, so you can easily find help about the new features.
There are many other features, I'm still working on, but they weren't ready yet, so I've decided to implement them later on.
Have fun with the new update - if you've got questions, use the Live-Support :)
| Featured Video Vote Reset |
08-11-2009 14:10:14 - X2X
Ok, it seems like some people here are thinking, the admins of TM-Tube are stupid. Last night someone created a lot of accounts with mail adresses from laposte.net - and every account was only used to cast a vote for the video "Team 402 The Movie". I don't know, if it was the author of the video who created the accounts to push his video in the vote - but if it was him, then: shame on you! //EDIT: The author of the video has warranted to me, that he didn't create the fake accounts.
If some guys here are thinking, they don't have to play fair, then I'll have to think a second time about making more votes in the future. I thought it would be a nice feature to add a vote function to TM-Tube, but then someone abuses the system...
I appeal to the sanity of the "culprit(s)" and request him/her/them to write a PM with an apology to me.
Vote reseted - please be fair now - or there won't be any votes in the future!
| Community with Heart |
07-03-2009 23:43:23 - X2X
All you need to do, is to add the <3 symbols to your nickname, and register your <3 on the action webpage http://hearts.et-generation.com, on which you can also find more detailed information about the initiative!
Let's participate! :)
| The pink experience |
04-01-2009 21:58:05 - X2X
Only a April Fool's Joke! Sorry, in the near future, TM-Tube will stay dark ;)
More and more girls are playing video games today. We, as a video game portal for everyone, decided to change our color theme. To make the page more attractive for girls, we've redesigned the whole page in a decent pink. We hope you like it :)
| TM-Tube 2.0 - The biggest update ever |
02-21-2009 14:47:28 - X2X
For 11 months TM-Tube is existing now. There were many updates, but the basic parts haven't been changed a lot. Now after 11 months, this is the first big update for TM-Tube, let's take a look at the Changelog:
- We are now using the new Auvica ViMP HD-Widescreen-Player with many new features like Fullscreen-Antialiasing (no pixelated videos anymore), "Lights off" mode, sidebar, etc...
- HD-for-everyone: your videos will be converted in the resolution 1024x768 with a high bitrate (note, that this is still in testing status and can be changed in the future) - Comparision: Old Quality - HD quality (Source file: avi with DivX codec)
- Playlist-Mode - create your own playlists or let TM-Tube auto-generate a playlist for you
- FAQ - we've collected a lot of questions which were asked via Chat, PM and Live-Support, this section should answer you all your question
- Didn't find an answer to your question in the FAQ? Then use the Live-Support, which will open now in a seperate window, so that you can browse further on TM-Tube!
- Hall of Fame - we've replaced the HD-Videos section with the Hall of Fame, which contains Must-See-Videos collected by the TM-Tube team
- Musicbase - listen to the Soundtracks of all TrackMania games
- Rich-Text-Editor for video descriptions, PMs, etc...
- Avatar resizing (you can now use every size you want, your avatars won't be cutted off)
- PM History
- FLV time detection and thumbnail creation
- Optimized embed mechanism for external websites (we would recommend you to change the embed code on your websites!)
- Correct thumbnail resizing
- Some layout changes
- Some other little changes and bug fixes
Thanks to suicidefury, manuel, TStartGermany and v000nix for beta testing :)
If you encounter some bugs, use the Live-Support or send a PM to X2X to report them. Please do not use the general chat to report bugs!
| Live-Support |
02-04-2009 19:37:44 - X2X
From now on there is the Live-Support-Chat at TM-Tube, which you can access via the link on top of the page. The little light before shows, if the support is currently available (green) or not (red). In this way you can easily get fast, direct help for your problems with TM-Tube, without using the PM-System (if the Live-Support is offline, you should use this further on).
| Finally it's back! |
12-08-2008 15:40:52 - X2X
After a two week downtime, TM-Tube is finally back! We had some hardware problems (details on TM-Forum), so we are very sorry, that TM-Tube was offline such a long time. But the good thing is, that you can enjoy now working tags and faster loading times (I hope ^-^ we'll see this, when more people are visting the page).
| TM-Tube - Fix Weekend |
11-19-2008 19:23:37 - X2X
The weekend TM-Tube won't be available, cause we'll fix some things on our server and on the page. We will set up the server with a new more up to date operating system and a second hard drive to give you any more space for your videos (should be enough for the next 5-6 years then :D). In addition we will try to fix the tag problem and to decrease the loading time of the page.
| Higher quality for videos |
10-05-2008 17:40:31 - X2X
From now on your new videos will be uploaded in the resolution 640x480. Additionally there is a 150% higher bitrate then before, so your videos will shine in a much higher quality then before. Especially in fast scenes you will notice this change. In order that you notice the higher resolution while you watch the videos, we have also increased the size of the player to 640x480. Many thanks to kevin916 for his excellent help in realising this proposal.
| Translators wanted |
10-01-2008 09:03:14 - X2X
We are currently searching for people who want to translate the page. Every language will be accepted, so just PM me (PsX2X) if you want to translate it for your language.
Translations already in development:
- Russian (by USSR Gluk) - Done
- Turkish (by buZZer & Oliverde8) - Done
- French (by TnT MAXOU) - Done
- Dutch (by Olivier)
- Estonian (by magnus0)
- Italian (by EDR Alex) - Done
- Hungarian (by NGcs) - Done
- Czech (by Paces) - Done
- Norwegian (by MNM)
- Lithuanian (by richux)
- Ukrainian (by Farspacer)
- Icelandic (by stebbi92)
- Danish (by vH4x0r)
- Slovenian (by Kobe)
- Finnish (by MikoZ)
- Polish (by Xemit)
- Hebrew (by adamw210)
- Slovak (by Odar486)
- Croatian (by Toni93CTT)
- Swedish (by illern)
- Spanish (by TaoK)
- Bosnian (by leleCTT)
- Japanese (by pmigneous)
- Greek (by grmac)
- Latvian (by <>< C4RASHy ><>)
- Serbian (by mcdjole94)
- Portuguese of Brazil (by P1V0Andrade)
| Technical Problems [FIXED] |
07-30-2008 21:16:13 - suicidefury
Most of the people surfing on this website might have recognized that we have some technical problems with our website.
Since our root admin PsX2X is away, no one is able to handle the problem until X2X is back.
He will arrive next thursday and will soon solve the problem so you can watch videos and pictures of Trackmania again.
best regards
suicidefury
| Update - many improvements |
06-27-2008 17:41:27 - X2X
After about three hours downtime, TM-Tube is finally back - with many improvements. The following things have changed:
- Ratings now also show rating count
- Extended notifications in user profile
- WMV files are now being converted synchron (no asynchronicity of picture/sound anymore)
- Tagcloud now shows capital letters
- Thumbnails of videos are now generated automatically
- You can now use ' in chat without getting a MySQL error
- No blank mails anymore with Czech, Hungarian and Turkish language anymore
- Captcha-Code in registration
- Videos are now downloadable via a download link in the media details (as a FLV file)
- Some minor fixes
If you find any bugs, please report them to me (PsX2X) via PM :)
| Pictures now downloadable |
05-14-2008 16:32:59 - X2X
From now on you can download every uploaded picture to use them for example as a wallpaper. Just click on the download link at the media details, which is located below the media id.
| Video-Upload fixed |
05-12-2008 11:47:51 - X2X
We could keep our promise and have fixed the video upload problem now completly. So, from now on, your uploaded videos will be converted automatically and thumbnails will be created too. Again sorry for the circumstances. Have fun with TM-Tube :)
| TM-Tube is back |
05-06-2008 18:43:08 - X2X
After a biweekly down-time, TM-Tube is finally back. We had to change the server because of the high traffic and TM-Tube is now located on a fast root server in France (with unlimited traffic). Among others the storage space has increased, so we set the maximum file size limit to 500 MB. So it is now possible to upload bigger videos :)
Attention: The video upload is currently not working because of a server error. We are working on it.
Have fun,
the TM-Tube Team!
| TM-Tube, the open beta test |
04-05-2008 20:30:51 - X2X
Me (X2X) and $u!cidE Fur¥ are proud to announce a new community platform for TrackMania videos. After the last big portal für TrackMania videos "Movies Life" was closed some time ago there wasn't central place for TM videos anymore, so we decided to create a video portal like Youtube. So it's - compared with "Movies Life" - now possible to watch the movies directly in your browser. All the other important features of a video platform are also available. There are a lot of categories for the videos (you can put a video in more then one category), so it's easy to find the videos you want to see (nearly every type of TM videos was regarded). You can also upload screenshots.
After the internal alpha test, where nine testers were involved, we're now starting the open beta phase. The biggest bugs were already fixed in the alpha test, if you find nevertheless bugs, please tell them here. We have also an open mind for improvement suggestions. The open beta test is used to test the server occupancy rate and to see, how much traffic the page is generating with lots of visitors. So please upload your videos, test all functions and report every bug you find. The file size limit is currently 100 MByte, but we will probably increase it in the next days.
We are also looking for moderators, who check the uploaded videos, the comments and the user registrations. Preferably those people should already have experiences with moderator jobs and should know a bit about the TrackMania video scene. If you like work with us on this project, just send me your applications via PM ;)
Enjoy browsing the page, uploading and testing the functions. The TM-Tube Team :)