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memills on April 10, 2008 - 3:16pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Their streaming video isn't working for me either. Ironic that it is hosted by the "Ohio Supercomputer Center."

Downloadable video would be better. Gail -- any chance you could pass along this info and recommendation to them?

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Gail the Actuary on April 10, 2008 - 5:44pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I am going to try to make mine available as a YouTube presentation. I doubt that is downloadable, either.

I think the problem is that these files, in any reasonable format, are very large. They are much larger than I could upload on the server we use at TOD, for example. The streaming techniques seem to get around this problem. Colleges and universities seem to be more constrained on file sizes than others, perhaps since there are so many users, and states are rather miserly in their funding.

I will be talking to these folks again, and will let them know about the problems, but I am sure they are already aware of them.

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710 on April 10, 2008 - 5:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Barely acceptable video and audio quality can be had for about 300 megabytes per hour with DiVX or XViD, and about 150 megabytes per hour with QuickTime. I would not under any circumstances use Microsoft's ASF format for anything you intend to be watchable.

Filesharing networks such as BitTorrent or eDonkey work well for distribution, and would allow people to keep a viewable copy locally, rather than having to connect to Google Video or YouTube.

Email me at the updated address in my profile if you'd like to pursue this further, Gail.

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john milton on April 10, 2008 - 7:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The current version of the "Real" plugin for "Firefox" will allow you to download most streaming flash video to your machine, "Youtube" clips regardless of length are no problem. This is all "Free", but not all "Open" software.

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memills on April 10, 2008 - 6:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Youtube videos (and those on many other sites) are downloadable with 3rd party software.

See, for example, http://videopiggy.com/

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