As you may know, TASVideos's publication load has increased quite a bit recently with the change to publication rules adding the Vault tier. As a result, there is now quite a backlog of submissions to be published on the workbench. Would you like to help out?
Basic outline of the jobs of a publisher:
http://tasvideos.org/Roles.html
Rules to live by:
http://tasvideos.org/PublisherGuidelines.htmlhttp://tasvideos.org/EncoderGuidelines.html
Thanks to feos, we have a pretty capable set of scripts and tools that help automate the encoding process for publishing:
http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/PublicationManual.html
If you've looked through these documents and are still interested, hop in to IRC (link at the top of the page) and we'll get you started!
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Are you man enough to save the workbench? Our queue is overflowing.
If you're a publisher and haven't published in a while, please check in. What's doing?
If you're not a publisher but would like to be, show off some of your work, respond, and also speak with natt.
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Next time this call is repeated add a news announcement. Might help. But seeing how an Accepted list grows in 6 items per day is annoying. Four-ish people aren't enough, especially considering runs which require several days in a row to encode.
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Guga: Where are you?
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Nach wrote:
Guga: Where are you?
http://tasvideos.org/PubCounts.html
It's been a bit over two weeks for him, apparently. There are many other active-listed publishers on the list with much larger time gaps.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
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Mothrayas wrote:
Nach wrote:
Guga: Where are you?
http://tasvideos.org/PubCounts.html
It's been a bit over two weeks for him, apparently. There are many other active-listed publishers on the list with much larger time gaps.
I know. I'm asking about him, because I spoke to almost everyone else on IRC recently. He also used to published quite a lot in the short time he's been with us.
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Link to video
IS this encode good enough for publication?
Nope, at least the following things are wrong:
1) Lacks logo
2) Lacks subtitles
3) The resolution looks bizarre (usually NES runs are just upscaled 8x using point scaler, and yt:stretch=4:3 is used).
(There might be more, but those were the most glaringly obvious ones).
Marx wrote:
I can help encoding for youtube.(NES only)
Would be a lot more useful to be able to do more than that. There are fair amount of platforms that aren't too bad to dump.
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To add to what Ilari said, publication also requires more than just encodes on YouTube.
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And for all the things Ilari mentioned, we have documentation on the site explaining how, tools to streamline the process, and can also give you a live helping hand as needed on IRC.
We really just need people that have the time, and are willing to be involved.
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nanogyth wrote:
Someone to write/polish descriptions would be very helpful. Definitely not one of my strong points.
Several publishers have asked me to write a description for them for a movie they were publishing.
Just ask on IRC, if I'm not busy I'm usually happy to. If I am, I'm sure others can help.
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GabCM wrote:
Mister Epic is back as GabCM.
I'd like to apply again to be a publisher. I think I'll have to encode some stuff first.
And instantly a few questions rise :D
Were you leading both accounts? Are you really Mister Epic? Why not use MrE. original account? Are you okay with using the most up-to-date encoding methods?
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feos wrote:
And instantly a few questions rise :D
Were you leading both accounts? Are you really Mister Epic? Why not use MrE. original account?
To answer those questions, this is the original MisterEpic account, with a name change. Notice he has over 900 posts, and you can look at his post history to confirm it's MisterEpic's account.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
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Ah, I see. I liked the old name more :D
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
The submissions list now has intended tier for accepted/publication underway submissions.
Runs accepted for moons are considered to be higher-priority to encode than ones accepted for vault.
