TLUG Sliding Scale

[Dave Bour]

How about a Bittorrent distribution.  Go higher quality, it downloads
faster and if everyone keeps the links open for a bit, it offloads the
server demand too.
D. 


Dave Bour
Desktop Solution Center
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http://www.desktopsolutioncenter.ca

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Subject: [TLUG]: TLUG Sliding Scale


Recording from DV to a VHS/VCR line-in is easy.
Thus, I transfered the recent TLUG meeting (Colins McGregors Knoppix) to
VHS.

However, I was thinking of recording a MPEG1 file also.
I thought of recording a high quality MPEG, say 4000Kb/sec.  But there
is a problem with that.
First,  the MPEG capture card is not the greatest, nor is the PC it is
in. (PIII-450) Thus I think recording about 2000Kb/sec is about the
maximum it will do without starting to degrade the video/audio.


So I decided on recording a lower quality MPEG1, say about the quality
of a VCD.
I am not making VCDs, since VCDs make no sense these days.
I am just recording it to a VCD level of quality MPEG1 file. (Assume
60MB/hour: 1MB/minute)

I was thinking of uploading these meetings to a server somewhere that
can do some moderate bandwidth, or perhaps bring some DVDs to every
meeting with all the meetings on them.

That means downloading 600MB for 1 hour of video.
It is up to your people to decide what level of audio/video you think is
best.


If it were me, I would choose about 500k/minute, translates to about 15 
hours/15 meetings per DVD.
Plus, everyone would prefer downloading 300MB as opposed to 600MB.

If you want, you can just get the .MP3 file of the audio...That would be

like 50 or 100kb or so!















































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