Daily downloads in decline

extrawurst via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 05:42:11 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 10:54:12 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 09:53:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 09:35:52 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:11:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 1. It's a big bummer that nothing has happened with chopping 
>>>> up the videos over the weekend. Right now DConf is three 
>>>> 6-hour blobs of unstructured footage. John has warned us he 
>>>> might not have broadband access to do so during his travels. 
>>>> In retrospect, what we should have done was to immediately 
>>>> arrange that John gives access to the videos to someone 
>>>> willing and able to do the postprocessing.
>>>
>>> Are the streamed videos the only videos available? What about 
>>> the original plan to record the talks, were those canceled 
>>> because someone started streaming with a laptop?
>>
>> The talks were recorded and will be at higher quality than the 
>> live stream, but I don't know when they'll be done. Given that 
>> postprocessing is being done to them to insert the slides into 
>> them and whatnot, it'll take them longer than simply giving us 
>> the videos.
>>
>> I would have thought that we'd just wait for those rather than 
>> trying to chop up the live stream and present that to folks, 
>> but I guess that Andrei wants to make the talks available as 
>> quickly as possible.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Personally, while I appreciate Johns efforts with the 
> livestream and then chopping the videos up, I'm waiting for the 
> professionally done versions. I just cant bring myself to 
> follow the choppy audio :)

Yeah me neither. I mean it was good for adhoc live stream but I 
even suggest taking them offline to keep everyone asking if those 
are the only videos and making an even poorer impression to the 
outside (of this forum)


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