Zipping / RARing video files that are compressed using a lossy video codec does very little, if anything at all. I won't bore you with the technical details, I'm sure you could find them if you're really interested in compression, but essentially no, I can't get them any smaller without decreasing the quality of the video.
I feel RapidShare is taking the piss.
For the whole of yesterday there were no download slots available so I went with the low-quality version which looks horrid stretched to full screen. Today I went back to RapidShare to download the higher quality video. Lo and behold, there was at least one slot available! However for a 200MB file the estimated download time was a whopping 30KB/s. With Mega Upload I was getting over 500KB/s and elsewhere I can get up to 1MB/s. This means that one section of the four-part video would take 80 minutes to download. It took three to download the LQ version from Mega Upload.
Oh, wait, as I stated there was a slot available. 64% through the very slow download there was an error thus it was cancelled. No I'm not using some crappy browser such as IE so if downloads fail I can request the rest of the file from the server. I forgot this was RapidShare and they don't allow this as you have to sit through the entire two minute wait before you can download. I'd very much like this to be uploaded to a non-sh*it hosting site so I can actually watch the HQ version this side of Christmas.
tl;dr
Anybody who's managed to download it upload it to somewhere else and post the link here pl0x.
High-resolution version uploaded to MegaUpload. Hope it works for you.
Lestropie
Crusty Demons for sure. **cking kickass by far the best video i have seen **CKING FAN**CKINGTASTIC! DAMN ROBOTS!!!Originally Posted by Hughsie
on the real, truly amazing stuff. well done for a robot![]()
john
ps redlynx should add a fan video award, or hold a contest for fan videos.
That vid is just awesome.
Luckily Megaupload didn't start whining about the download limit.
Awesome, simply breathtaking. I bet it was a bit like this back in the day when people watched Mozart playing (or video-best-ofs of him).
Why this isn't on Youtube for easier distribution and to show all the THD kids where it's at goes beyond me though.
YouTube has automated detection of copyrighted content (specifically music) - so when I upload it, the entire audio track gets muted.Originally Posted by Stulley
Please oh please upload this is as a torrent. For one no stupid speed limits or size limits. And two alot faster to download if alot people seeding. I always recommended Mininova but it listened to the stupid law. And deleted all torrents not upload by their "content distrubution" ****, I would try that first. Or maybe try the good old piratebay still strong and fighting stupid lawers every day! But of course you may have your own favorite. Will be waiting!
Too bad. I guess using some crappy copyright-free elevator muzak instead is not an option either...Originally Posted by Lestropie
Unfortunately I doubt torrent would be any better; it relies on having a dense swarm for getting a good number of high-speed connections. In this scenario it would essentially be you downloading off me instead of a server, and it would only be available at the times when I'm online and have my torrent program open. There's just not enough people to seed it and get the effectiveness out of the protocol.Originally Posted by RK360
No, because the entire video is edited in-time with the music; it's not just music dubbed over the top of a sequence of videos like most YouTube junk is... Plus then you'd miss the intentional puns in the song selectionOriginally Posted by Stulley![]()