by rose4emily » Sat May 01, 2004 4:24 pm
I have the FTP reconfigured, but you all should wait a few more hours before trying to use it, as I currently need all the bandwidth I can get to transfer my files back off of my roommate's computer.
It was mainly the file system tables that were corrupted, most of the files themselves were intact, so I was able to rescue most of my stuff off of my hard drive using a command-line interface off of an emergency/rescue cd-booting Linux disk and the FTP server, which was working even though my computer wouldn't even let me get to the login screen (I remembered that some of the daemon processes, like vsftpd, start before the login process, and appearently will still run). I was thus able to work around the missing portions of the file-system table (which for the most part defined system files that kept my computer from finishing the boot cycle but didn't have much to do with my data) by moving my data files to the FTP folder and downloading from the other machine.
All of my really big files (other than the ones for this project) were on an external Firewire drive, instead of the smaller internal drive, so that also helped.
The only really big thing I lost was the Huffman and PNG lossless versions of Third Stone, so there goes a little bit of quality. The compressed one wasn't bad, though, so I think it'll still be perfectly usable if I re-decompress it and clean up a few artifacts and the color section (which I had yet to do anyhow).
As to what everyone else should submit when it gets around time for compiling this thing - Huffmans if possible, very high bit rate whatever else if that's all your editor will let you do. There's no sense in doing more conversions than necessary, so if you can't directly export to a Huffman or XviD, there's not much point in trying to make a .wma an XviD .avi so it can be once again re-encoded into the final XviD video - that'd just add an extra lossy compression step.
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.