The ai Frontier - My ups and downs

[ai]

I have started to create some video tutorials on how to create models for Nexuiz. In this case I've started with the MG ammo model. I'm not much of a writer (though I believe I will finish the documented approach sometime) so I went ahead and started creating it this way.
Now, I only have one video up so far, about 40~ min. This is just the first one of a series, and I'm including the modeling process. Once every video is done I might make an overview video explaining all the steps without having the modeling and alike processes included.

I have uploaded this on Veoh but when I watched it the sound started to lag and the video was going faster than the sound. I have watched the raw footage and it doesn't happen there, so as far as I know it's Veoh's fault. It could also be the MPEG 3 layer that I'm using. It said that recording longer videos than 5 mins could result in this problem. But when it didn't happen when I watched it I thought it was alright so I uploaded it. I might switch audio compression later, anyone have any good suggestions for that?

Here's the link for the video: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v17088806Qnqk6jAD

Now, you can download this video from Veoh but I think you need to download an application from Veoh first. The video is around 300~ MB. I will try to make a compressed version, i.e. re-encode it. But the quality will go down significantly.

Cheers.

[mand1nga]

It sounds really great

Please have in mind that Veoh isn't enabled in some countries like mine (Argentina). I think it wouldn't hurt if you upload it to many places, like youtube, mediafire, etc

Maybe it could be uploaded to the media page in the Nexuiz homepage too.

Keep it up!

[ai]

Wha, why is Veoh blocked for certain countries? Damn politics!
The thing is that my videos are longer than 10 min, and without a director account on Youtube (which I don't have) I won't be able to upload the videos there unless I split them in 10 min each, that's a hassle :/
I could upload it to several other though, how about Google Video? I believe it allows for longer videos but does it work for everyone?

This means I need to re-upload the level design videos as well.

EDIT: Currently uploading on Google Video now.

[Alien]

Veoh is not enabled in countries where it does not have contracts with advertising companies or smth (this includes mine country too).

[ai]

Bleh. It works on Google video but the quality is so bad it's almost not even worth watching.
For anyone who's interested here's a link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4558&hl=en

I'm gonna keep looking for more streaming sites. Pleh...

[Alien]

I havet used neither teachertube, nor schooltube, but these sites are supposed to be hosting educational material.

[ai]

Currently uploading on TeacherTube. SchoolTube was weird, I think you actually have to be a student, teacher or a member in some educational organization in order to register, and it has to be in any of the countries it has displayed when you're registering otherwise you won't be able to register. At least, I couldn't.
But I liked TeacherTube just from the name better than SchoolTube anyway so no loss, and I was able to register as well. So, gonna post when it's ready, hopefully TeacherTube won't do anything stupid like erase my account as I'm no official teacher or whatever.

Thanks for those sites though, didn't know they existed. ^_^

[Alien]

Actually I knew one supposedly better (hq thing), but that had strange name so I of course forgot. Now tried to search for that site, but only found those two.

[ai]

Teachertube seems to be out of reach, but also it seems to have the same quality as google video. I read that it converts its files to 320x240 (or something) to .mp4 or flv. Same quality as google have.
The reason why I cannot upload is that I don't have too high upload bandwidth and the account times out before the whole thing is uploaded meaning I need to start over and over. I've tried it like 4-5 times now, no luck.

Any other suggestions for streaming sites? Meh, that it should be this hard to find a good one. :/

[C.Brutail]

ai, do you have any kind of pm notification enabled?