I want to echo the standard format/naming conventions. It's a nightmare to put the videos in a database/retrieval system when you have to rename them. Last year was somewhat-standardized, but there were some lapses (which are time-consuming).
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Originally Posted by blakcheez
Something to think about as far as bandwidth goes, but how complex would it be to get teams with massive amounts of excess webspace and bandwidth to host their own videos and maybe other area teams, then get these sites to link to them?
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Well I can't speak for folks from TBA or SOAP, but it wouldn't be too hard to implement a system commonly used for open source software distribution that goes like this: on the back end, any number of web/FTP servers mirror the same file tree, usually through automatic synchronization. On the front-end, knowing who has what files, you use some scripting to randomly send each downloader to a different one of your mirrors.
It's essentially a form of load-balancing.
There's also bittorrent to consider, but you'd have to bundle match files and get a good swarm going for it to be effective. That totally eliminates the strength of the current system which allows you to select individual matches, but some do want ALL of them, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to parallel the web hosting with a torrent tracker for people who want whole regionals.
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I'd love to help the recording efforts but I'm usually way too busy during competition. I'll see if I get one of our members or parents to do the HI regional and let you know.
If you ever got a mirroring system up I'd be willing to offer up some of our storage/bandwidth to help out. We have way more than we'll ever need.