[Bf-webcontent] Convincing people to use BitTorrent for Video Tutorials

[Compman]

I don't know what format you use for video but it might help to find a 
smaller format.

-Compman

At 06:41 PM 11/13/2004, you wrote:
>A ton of people have been downloading the video tutorials. The BitTorrent 
>Tracker has been helping out a lot, but even with those the load was still 
>too great for two of our community mirrors (not to mention both of my 
>sites with a 5GB a day limit). I know that many people with BitTorrent 
>have been downloading from our mirrors. I have a few ideas on how to 
>convince downloaders to use bittorrent first.
>
>I'm considering having just the BitTorrent link on the description and 
>then another link next to it for a non-bit torrent downlaod. Then it will 
>bring up a pop-up page with a list of mirrors, their locations, and a 
>notice saying that it is recommended to use BitTorrent, and where to get a 
>client. Since a direct link to the mirror won't be on the main page that 
>might help BitTorrent users for using a mirror just because it's faster. 
>This is an idea, so tell me what you think.
>
>For now I'm going to limit the number of files that are linked to our 
>limited bandwidth users and make sure the others are listed first. If that 
>doesn't work than I'll have to remove the links to their sites just 
>because one file could still take down the site (one video was responsible 
>for 4 out of my 5 gigabyte limit, and it wasn't even listed as the first 
>mirror). I don't want to just use BitTorrent because some people for 
>hardware, firewall or other reasons just can't use it.
>
>I also want to redo the way the web page is designed. I tried to use the 
>same method as the tutorial section uses but I don't know how to use site 
>items. If someone can help me with that it would be appreciated. As far as 
>my goals with this site is concerned I want to somehow unify the 
>documentation, tutorial, and video tutorial projects. They have the same 
>goal. It would be benificial to people using Blender if they can read a 
>chapter in the documentation, and then have links to different tutorials 
>and videos about the topic they just read. This is in a bit in the future 
>but that is my goal with this project.
>
>- Glen Moyes (Metsys)
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