Re: the FOSDEM 2009 videos are ready - now I need FTP space (got it)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 27.01.2010 um 17:59 schrieb Nicolas Roard:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
> <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> > After almost a year I finally finished editing the recordings from  
> > last
> > years GNUstep developers room.
> >
> > At first I wanted to upload the videos to some video portal  
> > (youtube, vimeo
> > or something else) myself. Then I realized that youtube is not an  
> > option
> > since it limits the length of uploaded video to 10 minutes for  
> > average users
> > (there are longer videos on youtube - I just don't how they did  
> > this). And
> > vimeo is also not an option: here a file size limit kicks in, you  
> > get only
> > 500MB per week as a free user - this is less than the size of a  
> > single video
> > I've got.
> >
> >
> > Fortunately the FOSDEM people offered help here (thanks go  
> > especially to
> > Christophe Vandeplas). They have a youtube account where they will  
> > upload my
> > videos. The videos will also be available at video.fosdem.org
> >
> >
> > My problem now is:
> >
> > How do I get those files to the FOSDEM people in a timely manner  
> > (e.g.
> > asap). FOSDEM doesn't have machines that support ftp. They prefer to
> > download it themselves from some ftp or http site.
> >
> > Does GNUstep maintain a ftp site where I can put the videos just  
> > for the
> > download by the FOSDEM people (after the videos are downloaded  
> > they can be
> > removed again)?
> >
> > I've got 10 videos, about 40 to 60 minutes each. That results in  
> > file sizes
> > ranging from 670MB to 1,39GB (all videos together amount to 9,04GB  
> > and are
> > in H.264 format in a .mov container).
>
> Maybe if you generate smaller resolution videos ?

That would be difficult. The quality of the source material is very  
poor (changing exposure and white balance, oversaturated colors, low  
audio level, noisy) so it doesn't compress very good. I tried my very  
best to improve the quality at least a bit (this is part of the  
reason the editing took so long) and if I increase the compression  
the already visible artifacts would become really disturbing.

The poor quality of my footage is the reason why I asked if somebody  
can bring a dedicated DV-Cam with FireWire cable to FOSDEM. The  
digital pocket camera I used last year is not very well suited for  
such a task.

> Then you could
> upload them on vimeo (that's what I did for the etoile hackathon
> --http://vimeo.com/user1762980/videos).
>
> --
> Nicolas Roard
> "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound
> they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams

Thanks,

        Lars

p.s.: Meanwhile Christophe Vandeplas of FOSDEM provided me with some  
of his private ftp space and I already have started uploading the  
videos. Many thanks to him!