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Almost everyone who leaves China stops using QQ in favor of software that won't rootkit your laptop. Strangely, Tencent's attempt to reverse this involved hiring a director with a clear Woody Allen hangup, resulting in a bizarre mishmash that not only romanticizes the United States, but reminds many overseas students of the very reason they were so keen on studying abroad in the first place.
yeroc99
said on May 24, 2013
Is there supposed to be some content here? Like the video of a commercial, maybe...
mike_underhill
said on May 24, 2013
Works fine for me - Win 7 - via Youku.This is a really good addition to Popup Chinese - thanks!!
trevelyan
said on May 24, 2013
@yeroc99,Are you trying the "video" tab? The direct link is here:http://popupchinese.com/lessons/chinese-commercials/tencent-studying-abroad/videoRight now we've just plugged the feature into the existing lesson structure as a new page. If it works out we'll probably tweak the discussion intro with something that will launch the video. Right now we're just trying to iron out any technical issues and figure out how to integrate things based on feedback.Can you let me know if you can't view or use the video? And what browser you're using if so? I'm going to try to solve Huiyilin's problem this afternoon and the more info we have about the setup of people running into problems the better.
Echo
said on May 24, 2013
@mike,I really like this new feature myself :) We're able to put interesting Chinese videos on Popup for you guys now! A lot of hard work behind it since we are such a small team. Toast to my colleague David @trevelyan. Good job!--Echoecho@popupchinese.com
trevelyan
said on May 24, 2013
Ok. Just as an update, we're now defaulting to showing the video on the discussion page if it exists. Should help make it clearer that the video is free and hopefully help with usability too.
murrayjames
said on May 24, 2013
Wow cool new feature, 赞！I'm having some small technical issues with the page, though. Using Windows 8 with Chrome as my browser.I can see the video and subtitles using Youku just fine. With YouTube (through a VPN) I get the following message: "You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video." This is odd, because I watch embedded YouTube videos all the time.If I do have to update my software (or enable it), how do I do that?The Popup Review isn't working for me on this page.The background and link colors on this page are different from the rest of the site. Instead of the usual white background with red links, this page has a grey background with light blue links.The "mark as unstudied" link on this page doesn't seem to work. It seems that all the Chinese Commercial lessons are automatically showing as studied lessons, even though I haven't done them yet.
jonp31
said on May 24, 2013
Like murrayjames I'm also getting the "You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video" on each of these video lessons. I know I've met both of those criteria. I'm using Win 7 and Chrome (trying to view on YouTube from within the U.S.)
pefferie
said on May 24, 2013
I do not think Youtube mode works in IE or Chrome at this time. Youku, however, works fine.
trevelyan
said on May 24, 2013
Ok, thanks guys. I'll see what I can do to fix this.
Chinese Commercials
said on May 24, 2013
@murrayjames,The color of the background and links is what we did intentionally, because it's easier to watch the video on this page :)--Echoecho@popupchinese.com
trevelyan
said on May 24, 2013
@murrayjames, pefferie, jonp31, and everyone else....OK. I think the problem is solved now. Or at least we've managed to wrestle Chrome into shape and I'm guessing the same solution will solve things with Internet Explorer. Any luck?--david
yeroc99
said on May 24, 2013
I tried this on my work computer and it wasn't working, but I'm trying it at home now and it's fine. The page looks completely different now, so I wonder if something has changed.Both machines are running Linux, with Firefox 21.
trevelyan
said on May 24, 2013
@yeroc99,I'm guessing that the problem was a bug in the software that was just fixed a couple of minutes ago. I test mostly (ok -- almost exclusively) on Firefox, so this one slipped past me.--david
yeroc99
said on May 24, 2013
This technology looks eerily similar to FluentU. In some ways it's better, though, because I can use perapera on the caption text. FluentU doesn't allow me to use perapera on their caption text (yet... I think they are working on that).
尼古拉斯桑
said on May 24, 2013
This new feature is full of awesomeness. Well done Echo, David, and the entire Popup crew!
jonp31
said on May 24, 2013
Nice work, guys! Thanks for the fix, David. They're all working for me now with Youtube in Chrome (with the exception of the 7-Up commercial ... for some reason I'm only able to watch that one through Youku).
pefferie
said on May 24, 2013
Works fine on IE 10 (Surface RT). Good job, @trevelyan!
huyilin
said on May 24, 2013
Videos work fine on the iMac today, though not all of them, and not at all on the (first generation) iPad. Nothing happens when I click on the link or thumbnail. 加油！
deanbarr
said on June 1, 2013
Here in Bangkok I am using Firefox. On the Snow White and McDonald's videos if I paused it, the translation did not disappear or were in the video itself. On others, the English disappears so I cannot pause to compare the Chinese and English.
walton_206
said on June 2, 2013
Same thing happens to me with the English disappearing when paused. After continuing the video, the following lines will have the English, but it goes away again if i pause it.Using Firefox, viewing through YouTube.
tchantchong
said on May 4, 2015
Hello guys! Does anyone know the background music? Its so nice
