Do the local downloads on here support resume?

[Kalium]

Anyways, now onto the main topic of the thread. How about the members themselves uploading the previews on their own webspace? This will ensure that all of the vids have previews, and futhermore, there would no storage problems for the server. On the contrary, it will reduce th bandwidth usage of the server.

Minor issue: not everyone has their own webspace.

[Otohiko]

Well, you can do that easily on your own webspace indeed - you can add multiple direct/indirect links, and I've seen people use that to provide differently-sized versions of their vids.

[Scintilla]

Play around with it. You'll soon find something good & standard. Also, TMPGenc is a freeware software and more powerful then most of the encoding softwares I've used till now.

http://www.xvid.org

I visited that site. From the looks of it, xvid seems to be some type of software equivalent to the photoshop of video encoding. In that case, TMPGenc is the Paint Shop Pro of video encoding - easier to use.

Um, no, you're completely off. You must be thinking of VirtualDubMod, which is the closest thing I can think of to your analogy.
XviD is a codec, like DivX, HuffYUV, MJPEG, DV, WMV9, MPEG-1, or MPEG-2.
Around here it is usually used in the AVI container, though it can also be included in the Ogg Media and Matroska containers.

TMPGEnc is a great MPEG encoder, to be sure. But it is still only an <b>MPEG</b> encoder.
And the MPEG-1 codec, though it still has its uses, is beginning to show its age. In terms of compression, it simply cannot compete with the newer and more advanced codecs.

Like XviD. Which, as far as I've seen, simply owns MPEG-1 in basically every department except compatibility.

[The Winster]

Anyways, now onto the main topic of the thread. How about the members themselves uploading the previews on their own webspace? This will ensure that all of the vids have previews, and futhermore, there would no storage problems for the server. On the contrary, it will reduce th bandwidth usage of the server.

Minor issue: not everyone has their own webspace.

Anglefire, Lycos, geocities, myfreewebhosting.com, rapidshare.de, briefcase.yahoo.com, efnet etc etc. What are they for?

[Kalium]

Anglefire, Lycos, geocities, myfreewebhosting.com, rapidshare.de, briefcase.yahoo.com, efnet etc etc. What are they for?

Hosting of extremely small things with extreme bandwidth limitations. Next to useless.

[The Winster]

Um, no, you're completely off. You must be thinking of VirtualDubMod, which is the closest thing I can think of to your analogy.
XviD is a codec, like DivX, HuffYUV, MJPEG, DV, WMV9, MPEG-1, or MPEG-2.
Around here it is usually used in the AVI container, though it can also be included in the Ogg Media and Matroska containers.

TMPGEnc is a great MPEG encoder, to be sure. But it is still only an <b>MPEG</b> encoder.
And the MPEG-1 codec, though it still has its uses, is beginning to show its age. In terms of compression, it simply cannot compete with the newer and more advanced codecs.

Like XviD. Which, as far as I've seen, simply owns MPEG-1 in basically every department except compatibility.

Yeah, I visited that site late at night, so I didn't see the details. I assumed that it must be a program because the earlier poster had posted it as an alternative to TMPGenc.

How to use Divx, VP3, VP6 (XviD too, I guess) & other codecs with TMPGenc: -

Click on file-->output to file of type-->Avi

Now you'll get an option to choose the codec you want.

I'm surprised you in't know this. But by the look of your post, I guess you might have used this feature once or twice and then forgot all about it.

[trythil]

No, nope, never; not with TMPGenc. Its an intelligent enough software to keep synchronization. Give it a try man, you won't regret downloading it.

I have TMPGenc Plus. While I find it to be a good MPEG-1/2 decoder, I don't find its synchronization abilities to be anything really impressive. (Yeah, I've used them.)

I'm surprised you in't know this. But by the look of your post, I guess you might have used this feature once or twice and then forgot all about it.

Yeah, because VirtualDub[Mod] is simply a better tool

[trythil]

Anglefire, Lycos, geocities, myfreewebhosting.com, rapidshare.de, briefcase.yahoo.com, efnet etc etc. What are they for?

Hosting of extremely small things with extreme bandwidth limitations. Next to useless.

I would also like to draw your attention to the Terms of Service for a few of those providers.


Angelfire is part of the Lycos Network, and is bound by the same terms and conditions re: copyrighted material.

You agree to not use the Service to:
...
(f) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
...

You agree that you will not use Lycos Network Products and Services to:
...
Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or regulation or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).
...

rapidshare.de is useless for long-term storage, according to their site policy.

You agree to not use the Service to:
...
upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;
...

I guess you can see where I'm going with this.

If not for these services' restrictions on transmission, these services are useless because of legal and structural obstacles.

[derobert]

I tried:

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for pass in 1 2; do mencoder /mnt/Kuno/vids/1/01/1/2/Phade\ -\ Material\ Girl\ -\ Ranma.mpg -o /tmp/test-phade-material.avi  -endpos 30 -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=ac3:abitrate=64:vcodec=mpeg4:vmax_b_frames=4:mbd=1:v4mv:keyint=300:autoaspect:vbitrate=200:dia=2:trell:vpass=$pass -vf scale=-2:160; done

Those look pretty good, though that's at ~264kbps or ~1MB for the 30s preview. However, Phade says WMP won't play them --- no errors, it just does nothing.... Any idea why?

[AbsoluteDestiny]

1) It depends on the 4cc - what 4cc will this encode use? Is it really an avi or is it an mp4, if it's an mp4 then people need to install an mp4 splitter to play the file.
2) Most people dont have ac3 audio decoders installed for direct show use.