There mirror sites are up and running now. problem is i don't know how to do the ftp things and i have 56k connection. The files are pretty big too. would anyone mind downloading them and then burn it on to a disk and send it to me.
mirror1 appears down temporarily- presumably due to the heavy traffic, which has been 20GB or more per day. Will be back up ASAP. full instructions for ftp are at http://www.worldbadminton.com/videos/how_to_download_videos.htm Files are indeed large since they are mostly full matches and viewable video starts at about 1GB/hr. However if someone would like to start writing and distributing cd's or dvd's it is certainly fine by me! MORE MIRRORS NEEDED************** For the obvious reason more mirrors are needed. If you have a server available with decent disk space, bandwidth and capacity and would like to help badminton players worldwide see real badminton, please consider volunteering! (for full mirror figure 100GB disk space, 1Mb or wider connection and a TB or so/month traffic) regards Stan
Hi Stan, it's me, the 'flyinpig'. The server seems to be missing some vids that I remember from when I used to host a mirror. Have they not been put up yet?
welcome Stan.... and the flyinpig. thanks guys, that's a great contribution to the online badminton community. i am wondering though, how do you guys managed to afford the enormous amount of bandwidth for these videos?
My guess is this is coming them about $200 a month at least for a dedicated 1 gigabit connection. I'm not surprised the mirror had to be shut down... many people online have broadband now, and's a huge drain on the servers. I'm surprised you guys are still using compressoin technology from 5 or 6 years ago. Switch to Divx 5.03 and you can cut your bandwidth costs by almost 90% without significant quality loss.
can't download video I followed the instruction but couldn't log in. When I entered user name as anonymous, the web site prompted that 530 anonymous user log in denied. Someone can tell me what I should do with this?
Can't understand how anyone can justify the costs unless it is a charitable donation. There is certainly very little chance of recouping your money...or is there?? Is there a way of dong a poll in this forum? Mr moderator can we ask people how much they would pay if there was a professional/commercial service to download video? Maybe $1, $3, $5, $10, +$10 The person could then keep the video on their machine for a limited time period. I am sure it is possible to work an agreement to get a copyright to do this. Lord B.
free As Stan formulated so nicely, Consider it a (free) service to the World's Badminton Community - Mark.
There's another mirror online now! see http://www.haroboy.boltblue.com/FTP Badminton.htm regards Stan PS- more mirrors are still needed. As an incentive, note that mirror sites get the first copies of all new videos- and there are many more coming! PPS - answer to some questions- resources are donated as a service to the sport. Open stds like MPEG and MP2 are the principal formats at this time since they are universal. Proprietary formats like Quicktime or Divx or WMF are intentionally bypassed, though anyone is welcome to download and convert. Intention is to discontinue this service only after it is picked up by an "official" organization. 'Till then I'll do what I can with resources available.
mirror site hi Stan ... I could help to provide 20Gig hard-drive + 250 Gig transfer per month ... on my dedicated server. I tried to PM you .. but looks like you dont accept any PM
I SERIOUSLY AGREE!!! We REALLY REALLY appreciate all that you do by providing these videos.. but why are you serving MPEG files?? They are too big and put too much a strain on your computer! Bigredlemon is right.. compress the files and save yourselves Plus more ppl will then have access to the videos Calvin
Re: mirror site They use mpeg because it's an open standard, so more people have access to it. The irony is that fewer people can access it due to bandwidth limitations.
hello, I am only able to get 1 movie from the mirror site ... it's very slow ... around 1Kb/s you can download it from badmintongallery.com
Hey, that site has very fast download speed! I was getting around 160k/sec and finished that video download in about 2 min. So, since this site is so fast, anybody mind uploading some videos onto it for us to download? They look to have very high bandwidth. Please help the less fortunate who can't download off those previous mirrors.
many thanks swijaya0101, it is indeed very speedy. unfortunately i already have that video I believe it is mis-labelled? it appears to be the commonwealth games mixed doubles final game 1. am i right? gregory
yes ... it's mislabelled I will try to get Stan to upload his video to that site ... coz it's very difficult to download from the mirror site and it does not resume the download.
*cough* kazaa search for Badminton *cough* don't be greedy! have to limit my uploads! And please share 'em once you've got 'em!
