Oh man, so all those videos are going to just disappear if their owners don't take care of them and upload them somewhere else? Yeah, I can only imagine how many good game play-throughs we're going to lose, for one thing. Just the other day I discovered that Slightly Magic has a walkthrough on Google Videos!
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Let's split up, gang. I'll take everything after 351M, whereas nitrogenesis will do everything above that. If anyone else wants to volunteer, we'll split it up again.
P.S. I'm sure glad I made the NoYoutube page now. :\
Edit: Oh, I thought this would allow anyone to download the videos for reuploading. Now I see you have to own the video first. In that case, I'm just going to encode as usual.
Edit 2: My queue has several items from this list ready to go. Still frustrated over the fact that Google could have made this transition process easier, but at least this is an incentive to get some high quality encodes for these movies on YouTube.
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Is there anything else that could be interesting to save from there that we didn't make? I've only just heard about Google Video closing down and there isn't much time, so other video owners might miss this completely.
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Oh man, so all those videos are going to just disappear if their owners don't take care of them and upload them somewhere else? Yeah, I can only imagine how many good game play-throughs we're going to lose, for one thing. Just the other day I discovered that Slightly Magic has a walkthrough on Google Videos!
Are you going to reupload any of these? I think it's probably okay to do so even if the authors are absent. In part because I don't think you can even see who uploaded the videos.
There are applications out there that let you download embedded videos like that, I know, so if you can view a video, you should be able to download it somehow.
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Is there anything else that could be interesting to save from there that we didn't make? I've only just heard about Google Video closing down and there isn't much time, so other video owners might miss this completely.
By all means, contact video owners if you know any in order to save the videos, but I don't think it's a good idea to download their movies and upload them elsewhere without their permission. The only reason we can do what we're doing right now for TAS is that we are re-encoding them all.
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If anybody wants to back things up from Google Video, you can also simply snatch the FLV link from any browser's developer toolbox.
Google Chrome has this built-in (I think it's Ctrl+Shift+I to open it on Windows, Command+Option+I on OSX). Just go to the Network tab and sort by size, and then download the URL.
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Um, aren't the videos there on Google Videos generated from our videos that are available via torrent or archive? Why not just take the one from there and put it on YouTube?
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By the way, I'll gladly help out, since I have an uncapped Youtube account.
Most (all?) of these videos seem to have an Internet Archive mirror, so I'll download the highest quality from there and upload that verbatim to Youtube. Would that be acceptable?
I'm thinking 450 >= 1053. Minus 474 since Brandon has that on his queue.
edit: downloading 450M, 474M, 506M from Archive.org. Will get 705M, 723M, 741M tomorrow.
edit 2: since we're doing HD encodes now, I've settled on 450M, 741M, 1053M.
Are you going to reupload any of these? I think it's probably okay to do so even if the authors are absent. In part because I don't think you can even see who uploaded the videos.
I don't know, right now I'm not really comfortable using my account to upload other people's work whole, at least without putting my own "spin" on it. Maybe I'll make my own walkthrough of a ZX Spectrum game like that!
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450M (Chrono Trigger in 4:21) first pass turned out to be 17.34GB (that's without any upscaling at 60fps, in the lossless TSCC codec). Now I just need to cull it to 30fps, upscale it to 3584x2688, add subtitles with run information, and add a logo.
edit: if I use this old logo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lev39SBngTM) and clean it up a little, like putting in the correct text and URL and maybe increasing the font size, would that be an acceptable logo?
450M (Chrono Trigger in 4:21) first pass turned out to be 17.34GB (that's without any upscaling at 60fps, in the lossless TSCC codec). Now I just need to cull it to 30fps, upscale it to 3584x2688, add subtitles with run information, and add a logo.
I did the ones that I said I would do. If we have decided to upload the remainder from archive.org, then please do so. That said, I believe they are candidates for replacement, though of course they are low priority.
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Nahoc wrote:
Dada wrote:
450M (Chrono Trigger in 4:21) first pass turned out to be 17.34GB (that's without any upscaling at 60fps, in the lossless TSCC codec). Now I just need to cull it to 30fps, upscale it to 3584x2688, add subtitles with run information, and add a logo.
3584x2688? You only need 1536x1344, for YouTube.
I was told that SNES videos should be upscaled to 3584x2688, ie (256*14)x(224*12), because otherwise there won't be an "original" quality setting. Could someone please confirm this?
Also, I changed my logo, it's slightly over 2 seconds (2.7 according to VirtualDub; mostly because of the fade), is that okay or should I trim it down just a little more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPG6Yh8Q6U
450M (Chrono Trigger in 4:21) first pass turned out to be 17.34GB (that's without any upscaling at 60fps, in the lossless TSCC codec). Now I just need to cull it to 30fps, upscale it to 3584x2688, add subtitles with run information, and add a logo.
3584x2688? You only need 1536x1344, for YouTube.
I was told that SNES videos should be upscaled to 3584x2688, ie (256*14)x(224*12), because otherwise there won't be an "original" quality setting. Could someone please confirm this?
Also, I changed my logo, it's slightly over 2 seconds (2.7 according to VirtualDub; mostly because of the fade), is that okay or should I trim it down just a little more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPG6Yh8Q6U
No. As soon as the height is greater than 1080p, it's "original".
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I was uploading 741M and 1053M, but the Chrome tabs crashed overnight. Reuploading now through a different browser. They should be up soon.
Chrono Trigger is just over halfway encoded.
edit:
1053M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4y9SHcC43A
741M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDyFTYadzg
450M
edit: chrono trigger will be a bit later. it'll probably be done in a few days. My upload is the problem, for some reason my internet decided to start being awful all of a sudden, I can download things quickly but establishing the connection takes forever.
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We will be working to automatically migrate your Google Videos to YouTube. [...] To do this, you’ll need to have a YouTube account associated with your Google Video account (you can create one here).
That's strange, how would they automatically move all of their content over to Youtube when some of the accounts used to upload them are Google-only? Maybe those videos will be removed after all.
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Now that they're no longer shutting down Google Videos, please restore links to all Google Videos.
Edit: On second thought, look at Grunt's list on the previous page.
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