Re: the FOSDEM 2009 videos are ready - now I need FTP space

[Nicolas Roard]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> After almost a year I finally finished editing the recordings from last
> years GNUstep developers room.
>
> At first I wanted to upload the videos to some video portal (youtube, vimeo
> or something else) myself. Then I realized that youtube is not an option
> since it limits the length of uploaded video to 10 minutes for average users
> (there are longer videos on youtube - I just don't how they did this). And
> vimeo is also not an option: here a file size limit kicks in, you get only
> 500MB per week as a free user - this is less than the size of a single video
> I've got.
>
>
> Fortunately the FOSDEM people offered help here (thanks go especially to
> Christophe Vandeplas). They have a youtube account where they will upload my
> videos. The videos will also be available at video.fosdem.org
>
>
> My problem now is:
>
> How do I get those files to the FOSDEM people in a timely manner (e.g.
> asap). FOSDEM doesn't have machines that support ftp. They prefer to
> download it themselves from some ftp or http site.
>
> Does GNUstep maintain a ftp site where I can put the videos just for the
> download by the FOSDEM people (after the videos are downloaded they can be
> removed again)?
>
> I've got 10 videos, about 40 to 60 minutes each. That results in file sizes
> ranging from 670MB to 1,39GB (all videos together amount to 9,04GB and are
> in H.264 format in a .mov container).

Maybe if you generate smaller resolution videos ? Then you could
upload them on vimeo (that's what I did for the etoile hackathon
--http://vimeo.com/user1762980/videos).

-- 
Nicolas Roard
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