The great encode of 2005
Earlier this morning I got time to setup my Mac to encode the video for Evening at Adler, which is going to take awhile, but assuming there are no issues with it we'll be good to go. I've seen it about 3 times all told while editing the cameras, and these guys still crack me up, so you'll hopefully enjoy it. I'm going to be looking at hooking it up to a tracker (thepiratebay would have a certain irony), but bittorrent is still beyond a lot of folks.
To that end, some mirrors for the two files would be really helpful:
- The video - ~700 M
This may not end up being exactly 700 M, and more like 650 or 750, so be aware. I'm going from memory when I crunched it last night, and have slept since then, but I know it'll be around there.
- The audio - ~130 M
This is just the audio track from the movie exported to AIFF and encoded as an AAC m4a file for my small yet loyal blind base.
If you've got the space and bandwidth and are able to help alleviate some of the initial brunt, that'd make my day -- just send me an email with "mirror" in the title and which of the above you'll be able to mirror.
Posted by drunkenbatmanNovember 11, 2005, at 01:41 PM
Comments (35)
Posted by: kevin at November 11, 2005 02:05 PM
Dude, you're using cleaner!!!
Uh, torrents are just fine, thx. At least set it up as an option...
Posted by: Pascale Soleil at November 11, 2005 02:06 PM
Wow, that's a lot of encoding. What kind of box are you doing it on?
Posted by: nougatmachine at November 11, 2005 02:10 PM
I'm going out on a limb, but it seems highly likely that the vast majority of your small but loyal fan base would be people who are quite familiar with BitTorrent.
Posted by: Peter at November 11, 2005 02:16 PM
Non-bittorrent links are very helpful for those of us on networks such as my university's - where practically everything is locked down.
Posted by: Bryce Kerley at November 11, 2005 02:34 PM
I wonder if the university would appreciate my mirroring this (probably not).
Posted by: Matt at November 11, 2005 03:16 PM
Two words. Google Video. You may need to recode it though.
http://video.google.com/
Posted by: aaron at November 11, 2005 03:24 PM
Google video supported file types: .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .ra, .ram, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .mod, .mp3.
Looking forward to the movie. Thanks DB.
Posted by: oliver at November 11, 2005 03:30 PM
BitTorrent's fine for me please :-)
looking forward to it.
Posted by: Tom at November 11, 2005 04:11 PM
You should put up a Bittorrent anyway. I've come across many sites that have direct downloads and torrents. If you put a torrent up I'll take that, and I'm sure a few others here will too. Make both available.
Posted by: Retard at November 11, 2005 05:08 PM
I'd take a bittorrent too. Options are good, though only of course optional. Make sure it doesn't fry the mac mid-process!
Posted by: Rory at November 11, 2005 05:39 PM
Another vote for bittorrent here, if it's just http downloads the server(s) will go into meltdown if you get slashdotted.
Posted by: Daniel Parks at November 11, 2005 05:52 PM
This is kind of interesting:
http://www.blogtorrent.com/
I haven't tried it myself, but it can package torrents into executables for people who haven't installed the software before. Not sure how it handles users with other clients.
Might make downloading torrents easier.
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Posted by: Chris at November 11, 2005 06:58 PM
I don't know how good http://www.filefront.com/ is, but they keep pretty large files (successfully downladed over 350 mb big files). Downloading is a bit annoying, but it's free and speedy.
Posted by: Doerak at November 11, 2005 07:17 PM
I will seed from a dedicated server up to 100GB with bittorrent. Promised.
Posted by: Kurt Moore at November 11, 2005 07:29 PM
I run into this from time to time, where you just can not handle the bandwidth of certain files. I always wondered why more people dont put the stuff up at archive.org, its free, fast, and forever.
Posted by: Nicholas Pacheco at November 11, 2005 08:35 PM
Another vote for BitTorrent!
Posted by: cameron aka desk003 at November 11, 2005 09:02 PM
db: http://mirrorme.org.
AFAIK, free, unlimited BW.
Posted by: cameron aka desk003 at November 11, 2005 09:06 PM
Sorry. I'm an idiot. Forget mirrorme.org. Howabout archive.org?
Posted by: Nick at November 12, 2005 01:00 AM
Add my vote to the torrent option. depending on when this gets posted i can seed from multiple connections once i'm up and running. My parents hardly use their DSL anyway :) Chalk one nice thing up for having setup cheap servers at multiple locations :)
Posted by: cameron aka desk003 at November 12, 2005 02:14 AM
I sent you an email, db, with my site's info.
Happy to help out a good cause.
Posted by: Mike at November 12, 2005 02:34 AM
That screenshot reminds me of doing "portupgrade -arR" on a FreeBSD system (basically recompiles all software on the system for which an update is available)... My last round of recompiles took over 24 hours on a 1gHz system. Fun.
Anyway, I'd like to cast my vote with the non-BT crowd (or at least in addition to mirrors), since BT doesn't work well here.
Posted by: archive.org/ourmedia.org at November 12, 2005 06:37 AM
another vote for creative commons. do archive.org or ourmedia.org via http://creativecommons.org/tools/ccpublisher as i said before. it might take a tiny bit longer but you might do something good.
here is some foolproof tutorial for a manual upload: http://www.geocities.com/liebermanbros/archive_tutorial if you don't trust that foolproof app. and no, i'm not doing that linky-linky for you this time. forget it.
otoh: mtka would be irony- if it would be the only official source.
/anonymous sileo quidnam nunquam inquit vox
Posted by: Samuel at November 12, 2005 12:25 PM
You haven't thought of a video for iPod version? ;-)
Posted by: Stanley Turnteen at November 12, 2005 01:09 PM
I'd like to see a torrent, but do put it on archive.org. EaA is something that should be preserved for future generations!
Posted by: Anonymous at November 12, 2005 05:16 PM
Is it true that Wolf Rentsch has something to do with the Sony DRM rootkit?
Posted by: Michael Weisman at November 12, 2005 05:47 PM
I vote for torrent and http mirrors. Torrents work pretty well at home, but I'm at school all day and the wireless network firewalls everything but http. Would be nice to have a choice, but you're gonna get ./ed pretty quickly if you host the video on here.
Posted by: Andrew Escobar at November 12, 2005 11:54 PM
Please put up http mirrors. My ISP, Rogers Cable, has completely killed off BitTorrent. I'm not talking about port blocking. No -they've killed of all BitTorrent access through traffic shaping with no working solution.
Posted by: cameron aka desk003 at November 13, 2005 03:29 AM
Andrew: Call them. Hassle them. Show them legal reasons it should be allowed. Get rid of their service if they don't allow it. I know I would.
Posted by: g. at November 13, 2005 10:40 AM
If you don't want to be too closely associated with pirates, maybe gary gives you a promotional account on prodigem. Or ask scarywater.
I'm sure there are tons more I missed.
Or how about trying to put up a trackerless torrent? that would be a great way to test that feature (although it would require version 417 of the client) but we would all be making lots of new "friends" ;-)
For the video I'd vote having a torrent first and save the http download for the long tail.
Posted by: Jerry Kindall at November 13, 2005 12:30 PM
I suggest including a Coral CDN link as well. http://www.coralcdn.org/
Posted by: Cap'n Hector at November 13, 2005 12:50 PM
I'll be happy to host a HTTP mirror.
Posted by: marc nothrop at November 14, 2005 10:42 AM
You should definitely go with archive.org, that's what it's there for! : )
If you're prepared to do the encode, it would be really good to offer the video in 'iPod' format (if that's not what you're already planning, @ ~700Mb could be...)
If you're not doing 320x240 ~700Kbps MP4, then do please consider it; this would be good for iPods, PSPs and maybe for bandwidth (some 'broadband' has usage limits, and excess charges.)
...and the audio, could you encode @ 64, or even 48Kbps? AAC can be quite decent at these levels, and again, it could be a lighter download, and good for smaller devices.
But it's also more work!
Posted by: Trent the Uncatchable at November 19, 2005 10:07 PM
Have a look at Coral cache (http://www.coralcdn.org/) too - all you need to do is add .nyud.net:8090 to the end of the url's hostname and Coral will cache it automagically for you.
This is totally off topic, but you're totally using the Milk OS X theme. ;)