I’ve cut a one-act (Bec and Nick’s take on the English Advanced course) bit of The Revue and compressed it into a digestible chunk, and have published it on OurMedia.
Get the dialup-happy version here (it’s 5MB or something), or [25MB decent quality version coming, if it ever uploads. Their site sucks. Watch this space.] See this update for more.
OurMedia is terrible to use aside from the whole free bandwidth and storage thing. I honestly don’t mind supplying ridiculous amounts of metadata, but its interface is absolutely painful — and, to make things worse, if I do as they recommend and use their crappy “OurMedia Publisher Tool” (it sucks, don’t use it unless someone has a gun to your head, and think twice even then… the gun to your head may have nothing to do with OurMedia!), I can enter all the metadata I want in its “helpful” wizards, and none of it will make it through to the actual site. Thanks guys. I’m now uploading a higher resolution version again via HTTP, because… yeah, you guessed it, the Publisher tool crashed.
There must be something about that name and crappy software. Microsoft’s product was (I haven’t used it for years) far more stable, but equally pathetic.
I’m thinking about switching across to Google Video instead, but am reluctant to because it locks data in a little bit more… so, we’ll see.
Okay, I got sick of trying to publish it for free… so it’s going up on the same server hosting the year12.joahua.com site (appropriate, niet?). Audio is a little cleaner in the WMV version… but if you want near-source quality instead, get the DVD. Here’s the broadband version. If someone feels like contributing captions, be my guest.
“Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the proxy server is not responding. The proxy server might be temporarily unavailable or your Player proxy settings might not be valid.”
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I use WMP10 if that helps.
Right click on the link “dialup-happy version here” above and hit “Save Link As” (You’re a Firefox gal aren’t you?)… and then save it locally somewhere before you play it back. If that’s not working, then it’s not just your Media Player settings and I’ll try and figure out what’s going on/host it somewhere else.
Yes, I am a foxy lady. :p
I was trying to open it in a new tab, rather than saving it.
Thank you for your help!
Another thing, is there any way you could acquire the lyrics for the song? Some of it is a bit hard to understand.
Yeah, I’ll try and get an original copy of the lyrics… coz I can’t pick out all of it myself. I’m also hoping to get another video of the Revue to augment footage/audio (i.e. so it’s less crappy :P with all due respect to Kim’s camera’s microphone, of course).
any chance for a cable happy version?
actually yeah I agree on that
get us some lyrics (please)… the audio’s totally buggered
Audio is much better on the decent-bitrate version. I’m uploading by FTP to a less-crappy-than Ourmedia server. Will advise (and make a new post about it, as this post has slipped towards invisibility).
[…] So, as soon as I uploaded a moderate-resolution WMV version of the video to year12.joahua.com, Google Video decided it was going to approve it. However, it seems the Google version is pretty poor quality (yes, I uploaded the same version to both Google and my own site), so if you want quality it’s best to go with the year12.joahua source — though the audio quality on both of them seems to be about the same. […]