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June 14, 2003 Link to this post
More mirrors, and more formats
The mirror list for the E3 Demo Trailer continues to grow... more links were added overnight. We'll also be beginning to add alternate formats. Any alternate formats added will be created from existing files, so there is absolutely no need to download them if you've already got a copy that you can watch; these are for people who couldn't, for one reason or another, view the originals. None of these alternate formats will be available until 1) we can get them to mirror sites, and 2) current bandwidth demands drop far enough that the mirror sites can handle the load. (Mythica served almost 400 GB yesterday, with BitTorrent clients adding another 200 GB or so to that - and the Red vs Blue guys did double that. Add to those numbers the big boys like IGN, Gamespot, and FilePlanet, and all the smaller mirrors that served thousands more copies... there was a LOT of demand, and it's not gone yet.) There's a Sorenson3-encoded version of the QT movie for machines that aren't good with mpeg-4 encoding... and an MPEG1 version in the works for those with even more limits. Dropping to older technologies means losing the bells and whistles (like the WMP9 version's Dolby 5.1 sound)... but for those who can't PLAY the newest stuff, losing bells is better than not having ANYTHING. We'll probably put together a WMP7 version, as well, at some point. (Louis Wu 10:21:39 UTC)
