rocketman
flying low
First off, I don't want to be stepping on anyones toes here in starting this discussion. If whatever I say is a bunch of really dumb ideas, then I'll shut up and never bring up this topic again.
Secondly, mad props go out to Clarity for doing this whole thing, and for Mili starting up the movie clips section on the forums which has taken on a life of its own in the past year.
I was wondering, though, where this whole thing will go in the future. I don't know what Clarity has planned, but since no one has really talked about it, I'd figure I'd chime in and see what the mods, various members of the BP video production crew (me, timbuck2, sandgk, hilmerj, etc.) and more importantly what Clarity thinks.
When the bittorrent trend started last July I would have never known just how much it would have exploded just 6 months later. It went from me posting up 3 games from the 2004 season, to having every game of the 2005 season in atleast two formats, and numerous classic games going from the 2002 NC season, and dating back to the early 90's. On top of that, a few members have uncovered stockpiles of VHS tapes of OSU games going back to 1980 - begging to be ripped to DVD and put up here on bittorrent.
The way I see it is, to make things more successful with all the ridiculous amounts of media that we will have, I think maybe for next season some reorganization could be useful.
If it's possible, one thing that could get the job done is if there was some place separate to post the video files from the forum, like how the galleries are set up. This way we could organize the games by year, author, file type etc. New video releases wouldn't get lost in a sea of requests and you could also have thumbnails for each video.
Anyway, I just wanted to know what the mods and Clarity had in mind about this; if it's possible or not, etc.
Secondly, mad props go out to Clarity for doing this whole thing, and for Mili starting up the movie clips section on the forums which has taken on a life of its own in the past year.
I was wondering, though, where this whole thing will go in the future. I don't know what Clarity has planned, but since no one has really talked about it, I'd figure I'd chime in and see what the mods, various members of the BP video production crew (me, timbuck2, sandgk, hilmerj, etc.) and more importantly what Clarity thinks.
When the bittorrent trend started last July I would have never known just how much it would have exploded just 6 months later. It went from me posting up 3 games from the 2004 season, to having every game of the 2005 season in atleast two formats, and numerous classic games going from the 2002 NC season, and dating back to the early 90's. On top of that, a few members have uncovered stockpiles of VHS tapes of OSU games going back to 1980 - begging to be ripped to DVD and put up here on bittorrent.
The way I see it is, to make things more successful with all the ridiculous amounts of media that we will have, I think maybe for next season some reorganization could be useful.
If it's possible, one thing that could get the job done is if there was some place separate to post the video files from the forum, like how the galleries are set up. This way we could organize the games by year, author, file type etc. New video releases wouldn't get lost in a sea of requests and you could also have thumbnails for each video.
Anyway, I just wanted to know what the mods and Clarity had in mind about this; if it's possible or not, etc.
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. HD games probably compressed with the H.264 codec or something similar. Basically it lets you view files in HD quality on your computer without the ridiculously huge size. I think an hour is 1 GB, so a full game would be 2-3 GB, as compared to 1.7 or so for regular-def divx files that I've been making.