On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:34:45PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest
Northwest.
They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based
streams available at ustream.tv. I have tentatively offered (with
stated caveat that Infrastructure had to approve) hosting space on the/a
torrent server for these videos.
Would these be torrented, or http direct download?
I thought the deal with the new torrent server was that we got disk
space and bandwidth to host torrents, not direct downloads.
I don't yet have an estimate on the total size, but there are
12~
videos, all somewhere around an hour in length. It may be a while yet
before they're all re-encoded into our preferred format (.ogg) but I
wanted to get the ball rolling here.
Is this something Fedora (Infrastructure) would be willing to provide?
Hosting videos has come up a few times. We host videos from FUDCon
because it's our event, but have not the infrastructure to host
significant amounts of video - it gets expensive (disk and bandwith
both) in a hurry, and so far we haven't found a sponsor willing to
underwrite this.
archive.org may be a good place to try hosting these.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com &
www.dell.com/linux