[ale] Pixieo (mp4) of Central MTG GPG prez by David Tomaschik available

Sat Mar 19 21:22:57 EDT 2011

This is why I don't do what you do :-)
On Mar 19, 2011 9:19 PM, "arxaaron" <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the posting, Ron!
>
> Your notice of the typo on the file size got me looking at what
> I did previously. My first attempt on the Warfield IPv6 was only
> ~365 MB. Looks like I limited the bit rate even further for the final
> and got it down to ~240 MB, and the only noticeable (added) quality
> compromise seems to be that the dissolve transitions were little
> more pixie-o-lated.
>
> I'll run another encoding pass tonight and see if I can get the
> GPG talk down a bit. I'm thinking I can get it to under 500MB
> and still have it readable. It's only about 20 minutes longer
> than the IPv6 talk.
>
> Doing a high quality, multi-pass b-frame encoding on my 8
> core 2.4 mhz intel Mac is taking several hours - between 4 & 5
> to 1 against source length. I ran the first attempt on my PPC
> dual core 2,3mhz G5 and that took about 16 hours, then the
> encoder crashed in the write file to disk phase. 8^P
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
> On 2011/03/19, at 19:30 , Ron Frazier wrote:
>
>> I've posted the file in the public folder of my dropbox. It's using
>> most
>> of my quota, so I might have to take it down in a few weeks. However,
>> you guys can use it while it's there. I was doing some download
>> testing
>> a while ago and getting 16 Mbps, which is about the limit of my
>> internet
>> connection. I don't know if they have any bandwidth limits that kick
>> in
>> later. The link is below.
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4
>>
>> If anyone's not familiar with dropbox.com, they're pretty cool. You
>> load
>> their software for Windows, Mac, or Linux and even some mobile
>> devices.
>> Then, anything you drag to a special folder is synchronized to all
>> computers and the internet. It's not public unless you want it to be,
>> and you can set up work groups and share specific files like this one
>> publicly. You get 2 GB free and pay additional if you want more space.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> On 03/19/2011 06:41 PM, arxaaron wrote:
>>> 1.8 GB is correct. Typo on my part to call in MB/
>>>
>>> It is an hour and 38 minutes, so delivering at any quality
>>> is going to be a huge file. At the restricted bit rates I'm using
>>> it is about a third of what it would be as an mpg2 for DVD
>>>
>>> peace
>>> aaron
>>>
>>> On 2011/03/19, at 14:27 , Ron Frazier wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Aaron,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for recording and posting. Question. My firefox is saying
>>>> that's
>>>> 1.7 GB (not MB). I just wanted to make sure that's correct before
>>>> downloading it.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>> On 03/19/2011 01:39 PM, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The live switched video recording of the GPG presentation
>>>>> given by David Tomaschik at the 2011.03.17 ALE CENTRAL
>>>>> meeting is now available for download or streaming at:
>>>>> <http://arxion.net/ale/ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4>
>>>>>
>>>>> File is 1.8 MB, h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper. Posting at
>>>>> additional host sites welcome - just let the list know where
>>>>> you make it available and I'll also add the URL to the
>>>>> ALE web page notice. Don't know if I'll get around to
>>>>> posting this to a torrent, but if someone wants to explore
>>>>> that adventure I can recommend LinuxTracker.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again for the patience of everyone who attended
>>>>> the meeting and sat through my 30 minute demonstration
>>>>> of setting up all the A/V connections and components
>>>>> needed for a small TV studio.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a little 60 cycle hum in the video, but outside
>>>>> of that it's pretty clean and readable. A caution that the
>>>>> audio came through very loud. I'll make an effort to
>>>>> squash those bugs for next time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry about the occasional buzzy digital noise in the
>>>>> sound track, but someone nearby in the building was
>>>>> apparently using a CrackBerry, and these are notorious
>>>>> for ignoring the valuable FCC regs so that they spew
>>>>> out-of-band digital RF puke that bleeds into all other
>>>>> electronic devices in the immediate area (like AV gear).
>>>>>
>>>>> Last note is that for anyone interested in the history
>>>>> and mathematics of gpg / pgp / public key encryption,
>>>>> our most senior ALE member, Zeb Morgan, is a fan
>>>>> of such things and forwarded this link:
>>>>> <http://www.livinginternet.com/i/is_crypt_pkc_inv.htm>
>>>>> The page mentions the 1977 Scientific American / Martin
>>>>> Gardner "Mathematical Games" column that Zeb and
>>>>> I recalled as the flint that first sparked our interest in
>>>>> the public key enigma. Though Zeb was unable to
>>>>> locate the hard copy he thought he had on file and
>>>>> web searches didn't turn up an archived copy, I did
>>>>> find some interesting branches on Wikipedia:
>>>>> <
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Public_key_cryptography
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/RSA-129#RSA-129>
>>>>> <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Martin_Gardner>
>>>>>
>>>>> peace
>>>>> aaron
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want
>>>> to
>>>> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate
>>>> energy
>>>> mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very
>>>> quickly.)
>>>>
>>>> Ron Frazier
>>>>
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>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want
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>> quickly.)
>>
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>>
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