Walker: yeah we will try to have more AVI for Genesis games but right now, only Bisqwit can encode Genesis movies because the AVI recording version for Windows is in beta stage and still possible to have vid an audi in desync. So I can't help. The second reason is Bisqwit and I don't know the games on that system pretty much.
In April, I also got an offer from the Internet Archive (archive.org), speficically the Machinina movies collection, to store the timeattack movies my site publishes.
Figuring it would be too much work for me, I didn't take the offer, but I guess it is still valid.
I quote:
Hey guys,
I've been dealing with some of you with regard to a book I'm working on, and I've posted
everyone's speed run articles on Slashdot Games, since I'm an editor there. So I'm kinda a fan
of the whole speed run concept!
So, here's the deal. I do work for the Internet Archive (archive.org), which is a big
non-profit digital archive based in San Francisco. You may know it for the Wayback Machine
archive of websites. But there are also lots of audio and video items in the collection as
well (there's almost 600 terabytes of data at the Archive's data center in San Francisco, and
we're just starting a new data center in Amsterdam, Holland!), and we're looking to expand.
So right now, we're working with Stanford University, Machinima.com, and Machinima.org, to set
up a Machinima movies collection:
http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=machinima
[Please note it's hidden from public view right now - we're waiting for about 50gb of
Machinima.com archive to come our way - actually, I think QDQ is in there as a test.]
But I've asked about a Speed Run collection, and everyone's really excited about the idea.
Would you be willing to upload your content into your own Archive.org SpeedRun collection?
We'd love original replay files (if they exist!) and actual movies, to be put together in the
same item, so they don't get lost.
The advantages you get are as follows:
- people don't have to wait/subscribe to download movies - we have a 500 megabit pipe which
should be expanding soon.
- you get a nice details page for each movie, where you can put extra data about it - it's not
just a file link.
- there's a cool collection page and messageboard so you can keep the community updated.
- if you upload MPEG2 or MPEG4 or AVI (?), you get thumbnail versions of your movie
auto-created, and if you upload MPEG2, you get derivative, streamable MPEG4 versions
automagically created! Quite handy for different bandwidth needs.
I know you handle different speedrunning in some cases, but anyone would be able to upload
into this collection. You can even start right now - upload into the Open-Source Movies
collection by following these instructions:
http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-contribute.php?stage=upload_info
[and don't worry about the directory being the same name as the movie, that doesn't apply any
mire]
..and then mail me and tell me, I'll make a collection to put everything in. You can also
admin the collection yourselves (approve/edit uploads, add info about them) if you're
interested.
Obviously, I know some of you have been using FilePlanet for ages, and others use BitTorrent,
but think of this as an optional mirror for direct downloads? I wouldn't want it to replace
existing sources, but it seems like a cool alternative, and we want to save this stuff for
posterity, so that if FilePlanet ever shuts down, etc, we'll be around forever and ever.
What do you think?
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Oh [pretty flowers] yes, they're offering a mirror? If it's of ANY help whatsoever I'm sure any of us that has been leeching for a while would be glad to help upload (myself included).
;)
I think that everyone is just to lazy to actually get a mirror to work. I have plans (that may or may not work), but I'm busy with school (and lazy), and no one really talks to each other about it. So, it might be done...eventually
I don't know anything about an ftp server, but I'm thinking that would be easy to set up. But I certainly can't do that.
