Instrumental Anime Project

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:09 pm

Yeah, um, definitely send me your ftp info when you get it set up.

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:51 pm

This is kind of funny and annoying, but my submission doesn't really use instrumental music I just realized. I put the translations of the lyrics on my video info page and now it just hits me. However, the lyrics in the song aren't audible really (some LOTR language). It simply sounds like a choir singing notes so I think its fine. Actually I think we talked about this a long time ago. The reason I'm posting this is that I don't have instrumental checked for my video. I don't remember that option being there before or I decided not to check it. Any ideas about this?

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:31 am

NEW IP: 66.66.32.38

Same login and so forth, just a new location.

The best upload times are between 2am and 12noon, Mon-Fri. I'm asleep or at class over almost all of that time frame, so it's pretty unlikely that my computer's going to be all that busy during those hours. They also seem to be the hours when the networks here are least crowded, since most everyone else is also asleep and/or at class.

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The only video files I know I'm specifically wating for are Jasper's. Anyone else can submit one if they have a better encode, but I'll use what I have if I don't recieve anything else. If you have something else to submit, you might want to say so on the forum so I know whether I've gotten everything I'm supposed to receive.

As to audio, I need Song to do a narrative for 13'37". Anyone seen her as of late?

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:44 am

Rose4Emily: I'm having some trouble connecting to your server. The connection aborts when I try to access the pub folder.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:36 pm

did you still need a bigger encode of Oratorio of ghibli from me? I still have the huffy somewhere and I can't remember if I submited a higher res version or not. If I do, what resolution were we going for again?

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:34 am

Bakadeshi, I sent a PM about sending you my mpeg-2, but I don't see it in my sent box, so I think it got lost in the twilight zone. Whatever, what I'm saying is I'm ready to send and all I need to know is where to send it to. Also check out my signature with a link to a picture of me and Phade!

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:59 pm

oh, you can upload it to my ftp, I'll create a folder and acount for it and PM you. right now its only setup for Ayu-mix.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:03 pm

anubisx00 wrote:Also check out my signature with a link to a picture of me and Phade!

So that's what Phade looks like!
The picture gave a fleeting impression of Robin Williams.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:56 am

Jasper-Isis wrote:Rose4Emily: I'm having some trouble connecting to your server. The connection aborts when I try to access the pub folder.

I dunno...

I checked the folder permissions. Those are all in order.

I checked the config file to make sure it allows anonymous logins, reads, and uploads.

I checked my process list to make sure the FTP was up. I then checked the logs to see if maybe it crashed and was restarted by initd (the Initialization Daemon, not to be confused with Initial D). No problems here.

Finally, I logged into a remote machine on another network through SSH and attempted to log into my FTP from outside both my apartment and my ISP. No problems. I logged in, entered pub, entered the inbox, saw the partial upload you left there. The one thing I didn't try was uploading something, since I didn't have anything at the remote server to upload.

Maybe you should just try it again to see if there was some fluke thing in the connection path between you and my server? It doesn't look like anything is wrong on my end.

If it fails again, it might help if you post all of the error-text junk you see when the connection goes down. That usually does a pretty good job of narrowing down what the problem might be.

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If anyone has any ideas beyond what I've already tried for troubleshooting this FTP thing, I'd be glad to hear them.

I'm starting to better understand why all the big companies have several servers in different locations to which you're routed instead of pushing everything out through one. It's probably a reliability thing, with the networks being a fickle as they are.

Could be worse, though. Anyone remember the internet about 7-8 years ago? That's when I started using it - and it was horrible. Good thing we had all that technological progress.

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If anyone sees Song, please give her a heads up on the narrative-switch thing. We still need to take care of that.

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Bakadeshi:

Mind listing what you have for copies of the individual segments? There are a couple I was hoping to see a cleaner encoding of - but of which I don't know if a cleaner encoding exists. I re-did mine - which was the biggest eyesore among the multi-generation encodings - but it'd be nice to see, for instance, a high-res version of "Warrior's Dance".

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I looked at the re-rendered narratives, and realized that the version of the animation script I backed up wasn't the final one. No big deal, though, since it was a simple program and I can re-write it in a couple hours this weekend. The one I backed up didn't do the eyes, and ran at the wrong frame rate, so I'll have to fix that and run the rendering process again.

I kinda wish I had a better spec for the MPEG codecs. Then I could encode directly to MPEG instead of making huge collections of PNG files - and probably do a better job with the motion compensation. Oh well.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:48 am

I'll try again with the uploading, but I wont be able to do it until Tuesday night at the earliest. If I still can't connect, then you can just use the old version for the online distro file. The differences aren't groundbreaking anyway.

OT - bakadeshi: try putting a space between the two images in your sig. IE likes to put them on the same line, and they stretch out all the pages that you've posted in.