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Re: Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008

Blue Alliance Capability Low Down:
Some facts about The Blue Alliance's server:
  • The Blue Alliance runs on a dedicated server generously donated by Host Rocket
  • We have over 1 TB monthly bandwidth, and survived making the front page of Digg. I don't expect traffic volume to be a problem unless we see astronomically higher numbers than last year.
  • We have a 120 GB disk, which is enough to hold about two years worth of full-quality video at once. We are investigating upgrading it, but we also plan to phase "older competition" video off of The Blue Alliance's archive and into archives on sites like firstvideoarchive.com so there will be redundent copies online.
  • So far in January, we have served 23799 unique visitors, including 123813 views of our embeddable team badges.

The Blue Alliance system ought to have no problem with the quantity of video that needs to be hosted on it to add the 2008 Competition Season, nor should we run into bandwidth problems from serving it. We are running on a beefy box, and have systems that can handle the load we are expecting.

The Blue Alliance will be able to handle the load.

When competition season (and scrimmages!) rolls around, we will allow people with recorded match video to upload it to our site via FTP. We will then import the video into our database, and everything will be ready to rock.

The thing that took the most time last year was converting WMV files to FLV videos, since it required an intermediate step into an AVI, and converting out of WMV takes forever. I fully support a move to an mp4 video standard and it will greatly reduce the effort required to convert videos to be web viewable. In fact, h264 is embeddable by Flash 9 already. Theoretically the high-quality version of the video could be used.

I hope this has helped clear up The Blue Alliance's capabilities for the 2008 Season. If anyone has any other questions, feel free to PM me.

[edit]Hey look, my 1337th post[/edit]

Last edited by Greg Marra : 22-01-2008 at 23:01.
 


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