I am in the (painfully slow) process of uploading the video review of the miner they sent me. I'll post the link as soon as whatever is throttling Youtube uploads gets over with. Right now it's showing like 1200 minutes to upload. Never really ran into that before on YT, but there it is.
Nice... How is the new daughter by the way?
One thing to remember, with high-speed internet... Usually it is only high-speed "downloading". Uploads are usually slow as hell.
Things to consider, with video, is the actual codex used to encode the movie. Google/Youtube will eat that up, and process it the way it wants, to deliver the multi-stream ability. The only good way to get it to go fast, is use the smallest video resolution that google/youtube has for display. (144p - 360p) Below 360p, is fast, but 360p is the native display that google/youtube defaults to. Thus, recording off-sizes or higher resolutions, will take a lot longer to upload, as it processes all streams (with assistance from your computer), and uploads all streams at once (using your upload ability).
Google/Youtube Tips:
- Use Mono-sound at smaller sample-rates. (mp3-stream or wma-stream google/youtube translates them all. Those save some bandwidth. Stereo and 5.1 SS is just a waste on google/youtube.)
- Remove sound, if there is nothing to hear. (Use google/youtube's insert music stream and notations instead.)
- Force standard video resolutions native to google/youtube. (Custom sizes get converted poorly by google/youtube. Plus, it adds one more stream called, "original" to the list of resolutions, which takes even longer to process.)
- Don't use xvid or AVI or MPG. (Google/youtube can read those, but those are horrible to convert to something the flash-player can actually display on all computers. Yes, google/youtube-player is still a flash-player.)
If you check your internet with speedtest.net, it will show you how deathly sad the upload rates are. (Unless you pay for high upload speeds, you will be lucky if it even does burst-mode uploading. Just like downloads are usually burst-mode speeds at the max you pay for, while constant downloading is usually throttled-down a few notches. Ours, actually bursts 10x faster than what we pay for, and throttles just below what we pay for. Each service is different. Not to mention, while uploading, mining in pools can slow things down a little. That is a constant stream of puked packets between your other uploads.)
The new daughter is hungry! Constantly and without surcease
Anyway, the video is up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyBQlj0nP7EI was aware of most of the above. I did a great deal of youtubing back around '07-'09. But that was just straight vlogging. This time, I used mostly screen capture, since the point of the video was to show the miner functioning. It filmed in AVI. No biggie, right? Except that every attempt to convert it to FLV ended up at 2 seconds, no sound, no video.
I gave up and uploaded the original file, which was way bigger than I had expected given the content. But it still shouldn't have taken 22 freakin' hours to upload! That's on Youtube's side. My upstream is pretty good.
Anyway... I have some questions for you about solo mining. I'll PM you, probably tomorrow. Today is going to be ridiculously busy.
