{"id":682,"date":"2006-08-20T18:13:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T02:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2006-08-20T18:13:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T02:13:54","slug":"hosting-my-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/20\/hosting-my-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting My Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to host my own videos now in my Gallery: Videos<\/a><\/p>\n

The reasoning for this… well, let me just show you my usage for last month:<\/p>\n

Bandwidth Usage<\/strong>:
\nTotal Provided: 1314 GB ($1\/GB over)
\nTotal Used So Far: 5.432 GB<\/p>\n

Disk Usage<\/strong>:
\nTotal Provided: 26640.000 MB ($0.10 \/ MB over)
\n3 Day Avg: 1851.572 MB<\/p>\n

So last month, I used less than 1% of the provided bandwidth and I’m currently using ~7% of my alloted disk space. So I thought, instead of getting my account locked on YouTube again or having videos on PutFile get deleted after 6 months of inactivity, I thought I’d just host my own videos given I have so much unused space and bandwidth.<\/p>\n

Gallery does support videos (movies) which is nice, so I began transferring my movies onto Gallery. However, I hit 2 problems:<\/p>\n

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  1. Thumbnails weren’t being created for my .wmv files<\/li>\n
  2. Gallery wouldn’t recognize .mov as movie files (GalleryMovieItem)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was actually okay with the thumbnails not being generated as I know most of my videos were encoded with WMV9 and it is a ‘proprietary’ codec, but what was funny was that .mov files were recognized as application\/quicktime and as a movie before I uploaded, but after I uploaded, it was placed into the GalleryUnknownItem category. This was really mind boggling as I started to trace through the Gallery code and went through my database trying to find the problem. The ability to downlaod the movie was still there (there was a “Download unknown” link), but I wanted the video to play on screen.<\/p>\n

    I ended up giving up and posted on the Gallery forums asking for help, as it seems there’s also been other people that hit this same problem. So at this point, I started looking up info on FFMPEG as that’s what Gallery uses to generate thumbnails. Apparently there’s already support for WMV9, but required to get the latest nightly builds. What I found interesting about FFMPEG was there was no download for it. There download\/files page on SourceForge had 0 files. The only way to get it was to download the source code from MPlayer and compile it on my own, which I ended up doing.<\/p>\n

    I replaced FFMPEG and regenerated all my thumbnails and my videos now have icons. Yay!<\/p>\n

    Then I thought, maybe Gallery was marking .mov files as Unknown because it FFMPEG said it wasn’t a movie file. So I tried reuploading a .mov file and BAM, it worked! So both my problems were solved just by updating FFMPEG.<\/p>\n

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    Random Crap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

    Darth Vader Phones Home<\/a> – I believe this a scene from Robot Chicken on Cartoon Networks’ Adult Swim. The scene features what happened after they blew up the Death Star and Darth Vader phones the Chancellor. Really funny video.<\/p>\n

    Workers discover chocolate Virgin Mary<\/a> – Workers at Angiano’s gourmet chocolate company, Bodega Chocolates, discovered under a vat a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary<\/strong>.<\/em> Sigh… Another Virgin Mary resemblance…<\/p>\n

    Zune interface, features detailed<\/a> (from \/.) – Here’s a prototype of Microsoft’s Zune player, that is going to compete against iPod.<\/p>\n

    A truly bizarre crime…<\/a> – Thieves in Germany stole 7,500 euros ($9,554) from a man by throwing feces at him<\/strong> from behind and then pick-pocketing him while they pretended to help clean up the mess, authorities said Monday.<\/em> Interesting way to pick pocket.<\/p>\n

    Current events dwarfed by pop culture…<\/a> – here’s my score card:<\/p>\n