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Welcome to FlixQ!

FlixQ is a different kind of videosharing service. We make video sharing easy. You can download, watch, and share movies right from your favorite browser. FlixQ is free so you can watch your videos without getting interrupted by any advertising. And FlixQ is private, enabling you to share videos with just your friends and family.

The site is brand new as of July 22nd, 2009. You can follow the recent updates through our company blog. Please do let us know (via the user forums or feedback) if you have suggestions. Otherwise, enjoy! -- The FlixQ Team.

FlixQ 2.0

by rsp,

FlixQ 2.0 was just released! It's the biggest upgrade to FlixQ sincethe initial release almost one year ago.But why does it look the same?Everything under the hood is new. FlixQ 2.0 uses a brand newtechnology to make sharing and downloading movies faster and moreefficient. The FlixQ sidecar works together with the FlixQcoordinator, a server that we operate, to determine exactly how thesidecar should operate on your computer to improve the averagedownload speed for everyone. This ensures that... more

The College Life

by rsp,

FlixQ: higher quality than YouTube, more privacy control than Facebook, faster sharing than anything out there. And now, share your videos and files with your college campus--with people who actually want to see them--while ensuring that parents and potential employers never know about them.Find your school's personalized FlixQ site by visiting FlixQ.com and clicking your school in the "Communities" list (bottom-right). Start sharing sporting events, parties, concerts, and lectures with your c... more

Channel Your Life

by rsp,

You just got back from a Rock Band party, and you're about to share all the videos you took (privately, of course, so as not to damage your friends' future career prospects). But how will your friends ever find your new award-worthy work amidst all your movies from last week's trip to the bowling alley? Sure, you could send out a link to each movie, but there's got to be a better way...Introducing channels, a better way to share related videos. It's simple: create as many channels as you like... more

Why YouTube is Expensive to Operate, or Slow to Download.

by egs,

Location, location, location: it's about as important in distributed systems as it is in real-estate. Where a server is located in the network determines the kind of performance you're going to get when downloading data from that server. So the efficiency of a content distribution system is determined in no small part by its ability to direct you to nearby servers.To be slightly more precise, network location affects two separate metrics: latency and bandwidth. In theory, these two are completel... more

FlixQ Sidecar 1.2.1 maintenance release

by bwong,

FlixQ Sidecar 1.2.1 was released yesterday. It includes the following client-side changes:- Supports non-square pixel aspect ratio in the source video when creating thumbnails or when transcoding to a flash video.- Users can select the operating port of the FlixQ sidecar.- Improved NAT-PMP support for the Mac version.... more

Sidecar weighing you down?

by bwong,

One of the most common suggestions we receive is to provide a way to download or view movies from FlixQ without the sidecar running. Our users sometimes want to view a clip from work, where they may not be allowed to install third-party software, or share a video with a security conscious friend, who may be uncomfortable installing the sidecar without first verifying for herself that the site is legitimate (and awesome!).In response, we would like to announce our new, sidecar-free video d... more

Share More, Faster!

by rsp,

Thanks to our users for all the great content they've shared!Our users have told us FlixQ makes it easy to share their movies. But until now, sharing lots of movies was difficult, as it required adding them one at a time.To make sharing easier, just yesterday we released version 1.2 of the sidecar that makes it easy to share entire folders. Just go to my shares and click "share a folder." Want to customize your new shares or choose exactly which files to share from your folder? You'll get a l... more

Welcome.

by egs,

Welcome to FlixQ!!! FlixQ is a different kind of videosharing service. For one, we don't have a bunch of PR flacks writing this blog -- we're the actual people who built the service, so you'll always get a clear and crisp story without any corporate-speak -- but, more importantly, we have better technology than everyone else.We make video sharing easy: you can download, watch, and share movies using just your browser. Anyone can figure out how to download and watch from our site, and sharing is ... more