On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:07:12 +0200
"Rob T" <alanb@ucora.com> wrote:
> It would be even better if the torrent contained the original video. Is it available for download somewhere?
> 

No, not unless Andrei puts it somewhere. I'm still willing to seed
torrents of those if I can get access to them. He said the
original version of the keynote was ~600MB, looks like there were ~20
talks, so figure ~12GB - I should be able to swing that at least for a
month or so assuming people actually want the full original quality
versions (and then naturally archive them to, it'd only be ~3-4 DVDRs).
Or I could transcode to something in between the original quality and
YouTube quality if people prefer.

On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 05:15:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:07:12 +0200
> "Rob T" <alanb@ucora.com> wrote:
>> It would be even better if the torrent contained the original video. Is it available for download somewhere?
>> 
>
> No, not unless Andrei puts it somewhere. I'm still willing to seed
> torrents of those if I can get access to them. He said the
> original version of the keynote was ~600MB

this Firefox addons allows to simply download video from Youtube in any quality, there is also 720/MP4 (h264) for download
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtube-video-download/

On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 05:15:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:07:12 +0200
> "Rob T" <alanb@ucora.com> wrote:
>> It would be even better if the torrent contained the original video. Is it available for download somewhere?
>> 
>
> No, not unless Andrei puts it somewhere. I'm still willing to seed
> torrents of those if I can get access to them. He said the
> original version of the keynote was ~600MB, looks like there were ~20
> talks, so figure ~12GB - I should be able to swing that at least for a
> month or so assuming people actually want the full original quality
> versions (and then naturally archive them to, it'd only be ~3-4 DVDRs).
> Or I could transcode to something in between the original quality and
> YouTube quality if people prefer.

I'll seed whatever additional files get torrented.

Here's another FF addon for video downloading (and files too), it works for me quite well.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

On Thu, 09 May 2013 08:04:19 +0200
"Michal Minich" <michal.minich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> this Firefox addons allows to simply download video from Youtube in any quality, there is also 720/MP4 (h264) for download

Oh, I didn't even notice that. Downloading it now, will set up a seed.

On Thu, 09 May 2013 08:46:01 +0200
"Rob T" <alanb@ucora.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's another FF addon for video downloading (and files too), it works for me quite well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

Yea, that's the one I've been using. Fantastic add-on, and one of the reasons I hate to venture outside my FF ;)

Thanks to Michal Minich for pointing out YouTube actually did have higher quality versions available, I'm now seeding a 720p MP4 Stereo version of the video. The torrent is available along with the old one here:

http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/

Am Wed, 8 May 2013 21:56:50 +0200
schrieb Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com>:

> On 5/8/13, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/8/13, Dicebot <m.strashun@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Works-for-me (TM)
> >
> > Well I'll just use that Video DownloadHelper addon and view it offline with a proper media player.
> >
> 
> Well that didn't work, it downloaded 28 Mb and then it stopped, and there's no resume. This really sucks..

Just use youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

On 5/8/13, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:
> I've made a torrent (now seeding) with the video and slides. Hopefully it works ok, this is the first torrent I've actually created (if the URL is too long, just use the link at the bottom of this message):
>
> http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/%5bDConf%202013%5d%20Opening%20Keynote%20by%20Walter%20Bright%20-%20FLV%20Video%20and%20PDF%20Slides.torrent

Awesome. I'll be seeding for a while as well. Thanks!

(methinks it wouldn't be a bad idea to put the torrent on dconf.org and add a note asking for downloaders to seed for a while)

On 5/9/13 3:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Thanks to Michal Minich for pointing out YouTube actually did have
> higher quality versions available, I'm now seeding a 720p MP4 Stereo
> version of the video. The torrent is available along with the old
> one here:
>
> http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/
>

Awesome. Do you still need the original? I have it as a 600MB mp4 file, not sure of the other details.

Andrei

On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 14:23:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/9/13 3:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Thanks to Michal Minich for pointing out YouTube actually did have
>> higher quality versions available, I'm now seeding a 720p MP4 Stereo
>> version of the video. The torrent is available along with the old
>> one here:
>>
>> http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/
>>
>
> Awesome. Do you still need the original? I have it as a 600MB mp4 file, not sure of the other details.
>
> Andrei

Original is always better.