Haha, I came up with this idea - about some of the recently published TAS movies that lived long enough to become a classic. I'm talking published speedrun videos where the logos and the subtitles would point to bisqwit.iki.fi - now that is what I call "classics!"
My question is that would it make any difference if we decided to re-encode classic speedruns to where the logos and subtitles are current, pointing to tasvideos.org? Would this be a heads-up to everybody else that would want to finally try to re-work a classic movie and save frames off of them?! Especially after a number of years...!
Otherwise, I'll carry on. :)
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Just for reference, here is the list of the longest non-obsoleted movies. I'm guessing quite a few of them still have the bisqwit.iki.fi reference in their .avi.
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I wouldn't be opposed to having some old avi's updated. I think some published movies are still old enough that they don't even use x264 and have enormous filesizes.
However, our encoders have a full time job just encoding current submissions, let alone going back and re-encoding already published movies.
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Well, reencoding them would fix the seeding problem.
And at this point a lot of the movies that old are still here because they don't have long overdue improvements!
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Mitjitsu wrote:
I don't see the point in updating old avi's. Most of them aren't even seeded and many of them have long overdue improvements.
I don't think updating the logos is a real reason for the encoders to go to the effort, though I agree w/ adelikat that reducing file size and/or improving encode quality would justify a (low priority) effort.
With respect to old runs not being seeded (or obsoleted runs not being available), what is the technical limitation that causes this? I don't know if most people do this, but I like watching old old versions of runs if possible to better appreciate how good the current ones are, but often I can't get old movie files to sync and the encode is no longer up.
Is it disk space? Bandwidth? I wouldn't think making the old versions of movies available would eat up too much bandwidth since the vast majority of users would only download the most recent one, but I could be wrong...
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Yup, and Ice Climber, and a few more. But Bubble Bobble was played on Famtasia and recorded at bad FPS, so its re-encoding is especially justifiable.
For the old bisqwit.iki.fi-based URL, I'll try to keep it operational whenever bisqwit.iki.fi is operational, which I have no intention of shutting down any time soon.
That is your own personal website, and you don't have to shut it down if you don't want to. I mean, it's interesting to see things done outside this website. Perhaps that is where the TAS videos started to come in before you got the tasvideos.org domain...?
bisqwit wrote:
for the old bisqwit.iki.fi-based URL... I have no intention of shutting down any time soon.
Who invented tasvideos.org anyway? Not everyone will know.
