On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:53:34PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> >>> But you still haven't said why the final output file has to be so
> >>> small.
> >
> >
> > To be shared over bittorrent :P
> >
>
> Ummmm.... people share full DVD- size files over BT all the time. If
> it's an issue of not wanting to seed for the length of time it would
> take to get more seeders, well, then don't share over BT, because you
> 'have to' do that, no matter how big the file is.
>
> And heaven knows I wouldn't be happy with the file I got (a full DVD
> shrunk to 100MB), even if it only took me half an hour rather than 2 days.
I know I am more likely to download files under 1GB than those above.
Even with Bittorrent, which allows the sharing of large files, when
dealing with unknown content, I still prefer NOT to give up 4G of my
harddrive space. And I am sure a lot of users feel the same way.
>
> Or is the issue that the vendor doesn't want people to have to wait for
> 2 days to get the file? I'm not sure that's reasonable; it's BT (so
> people are used to it not being instantaneous downloading), and this is,
> after all, a full-quality file that is (almost) ready to burn to DVD. If
> that's what the expected customers want, then they'll likely be willing
> to wait.
>
> You might consider offering two versions; 'low-quality' (reduced to
> something like 320xwhatever), and 'high(er)-quality' (at either the
> original A/R, or a slightly lower one).
>
I think that's a good idea.
> I think you're trying to solve the wrong problem-- your actual problem
> is not that the file is 'too big' but it is in some way too big for you
> to work with in the way that you seem to need to, for reasons unknown
> (insofar as there is no bt-specific reason that a 4.5 GB file cannot be
> shared, but there clearly is a you-specific reason that you can't do
> this, presumably that your client has specified these restrictions).
Hum, my feeling is that his client actually wants people to download
the files? A brief scan of the various bittorrent forums/boards that I
visit tells me that full DVD sized contents can usually only survive
if it is a boot-legged copy of a full movie, or pr0n. Other things
tends to get ignored if it takes 2 days to download. Like I said: if
you don't know whether the content is good or not, would you be
willing to wait 2 days and sacrifice 4 G of harddrive space?
W
--
"Why does the chicken cross the road?"
Einstein: it's not the chicken crossing the road, it is the road crossing the
chicken."
Heisenberg: well, if you know it is moving, you can't know where it is; and if
you know where it is, you can't really know where it's going. Therefore
you can't know for certain that the chicken is actually crossing the road.
von Neumann: it satisfies the Minimax theorem for worm finding.
Schroedinger: not really. It is in the state of crossing and not crossing at
the same time. Until you observe it, you can't really be sure.
Pauli: Well, it must be that there's another chicken of the same shape, size,
color, taste, smell, etc. on this side of the road...
Newton: an unbalanced force
Bohr: Because it is excited, and because it can't stay on the road...
Feynman: (dum, dum, dong, dum-da, dum, dong)
Ah... Old MacDonald had a farm... E I E I O....
And on this farm he has a chicken... E I E I O....
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