Like ive said to everyone , when i recieve the CD from Ben Miller ill be putting them online , but at the minute he hasnt posted it.Ill be posting it on the MB when i receive it , and the link where they will be at.

LOL Yeah but your one of many. Ben said to me yesterday that he is putting some of Alexs mario sunshine videos on the CD to , and will send it soon.So im just gonna be waiting the same length of times as you's.

Alex is a honest player if you didnt know.Plus he didnt join the site till about 3-4months ago or something , so didnt have to provide proof when others did.

Alex has already submitted proof to Ben Miller - the Australian Proof Moderator - in the form of a VHS tape. Just because you don't have access to the vids right now doesn't mean that he hasn't been proven. Thanks, and have a nice day.  

I'm sure Ben has watched them (in order to film them in the first place), even though he hasn't sent a CD yet.

Well, in our history of gaming competitions proof has allways consisted of VHS tapes. People sent their taped races to proof moderators. And they validate the times. That's more than enough to get someone officially validated.

With capture cards and digital cameras becoming more available lately, people also started creating mpeg's, so that players could demonstrate their strategies to all the other players.

Those movies are very useful and beneficial for the gaming community. However, they don't mean the normal VHS tapes are no good proof anymore. Sending VHS tapes to a proof mod is still the standard in validating your times. Creating online movies is just an added bonus (a very nice bonus though).

Creating online movies of every single race of all players is just impossible as well. It takes too much time to create mpegs/avis for all races of all players and there's not enough webspace/bandwidth for all those vids. And people aren't interested anyhow in seeing races of 30 different players on Baby Park for example.

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Most providers don't give enough space/bandwidth for videos. Almost every single free webhost has some restrictions that will prevent you from sharing large files on their servers.
Some players on this site did still manage to get a few hosting accounts with good space and bandwidth though. And with those accounts, we're already doing what you said. Check the video page on the site.


In conclusion: Alex is validated. And we're now working on getting his awesome races and strats online sometime soon, mainly for your viewing pleasure.

junamiaz   wrote on 04/30/04 at 06:40:33:



Not everyone possesses a capture card, and webspace is like gold on the internet - most free providers only give very limited bandwidth, or its a foreign provider with low usage anyway.

Paul Tanney   wrote on 04/30/04 at 10:14:34:


I don't understand, what's the problem if he made them on his sister computer? Won't he send you a CD? So just make the CD and put it on his computer.  ???

Moritz

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Space is not the main problem. The biggest problem is bandwidth. Most free providers give only 1 GB/month, which is 30MB/day which means that only 6 vids of 5 MB could be downloaded each day. That's not enough if 100 people want to download some vids. And most providers don't even allow you to put zip/mpeg/avi files on their servers.
Paid webhosts are better, but accounts with enough bandwidth are expensive. The average host that has 50GB/month or more are usually about 250$ a year.

Actually, with my site : http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr in only March, there were more than 6 GB downloaded !!   .. and I think there wasn't any problem   ...

penev has a tape right?

1gb Moritz?!?!?!

How much did that cost?

My host is pretty good, only £20 pa for 50mb/.co.uk and UNLIMITED bandwidth, which is sweet.