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

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi Glen,

personally, I'm not a big fan of popup windows but I see what you're 
getting at. The current Typo3 templates that we use also do not support 
popups, so I would favor an alternate solution. Do you think it would 
be a problem to offer *only* bittorrent files? We could have a good 
central page that explains BitTorrent on the site anyway, since the new 
Conference Videos page 
(http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender_Conference_Videos.481.0.html) is 
also BitTorrent-only.

I can help you to get started with the siteitems, but I would prefer to 
do this online with you. Do you ever use IRC, or some kind of instant 
messaging? We could use that to work on it. Before we do so though, 
let's decide on which model to choose. How did the suggestion I made 
the other day sound? (Combining the regular and video tutorials by 
adding a new category for video tutos)

Bart

Op 14-nov-04 om 0:41 heeft Glen Moyes het volgende geschreven:

> 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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