2009/1/19 Ian Forrester <[email protected]>: > Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which we owned all the > rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video, but images, sound, > subtitles, metadata about the programme scripts, etc.
A ton? Assuming you mean metric tonne (1000kg) and you are using Seagate 1.5TB disks[0] that would be over 2 Peta Bytes of data. :D > How would you > 1. Package it? Something Open and Standardised obviously. If you just want to get the files to someone's machine then tar should be fine. Compression can be done with Gzip or Bzip but Media files don't compress very well! If you intend to update the files maybe some kind of Rsync or CVS, SVN (but these work best with isolated changes to the files). > 2. Distribute it? Almost certainly BitTorrent. Works on any platform. > 3. Licence it? (this isn't such a worry) Public Domain or something like CC-by-SA or GFDL (GPL for software). > I wonder how long it took to actually build the zip files and upload them? Depends on what kind of compression is used. Tar uses no compression (unless you Bzip or Gzip it) so should go about as fast as your Hard Drive can manage. If you really want to compress and you are worried about time, run command before you leave work, it should be done by the next morning easily. > We were considering MXF - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXF but it looks > difficult and time consuming to build, however the BBC did help build it so > we could get help. Matroska, Nut and QuickTime are also look worthy. Never heard of it. You have to pay to rent the standard (the EULA is very clear about it being leased not sold). Also have to surrrender rights to an unamed "Arbitrator" and submit to sole US jurisdiction. Not going to do that so I can't read the standard so can't say how good it is. It certainly has a lot more hoops to jump through just to read the thing. I can read RFCs so much easier (if it's not very knew I have it on my HD, ah bulk download). > Distribution wise, Bit Torrent, P2Pnext, Edonkey2k, Usenet, Archive.org, > Blip.tv, rapidshare (joking!) who knows, but YouTube isn't going to cut it. BitTorrent or Archive.org (preferably both). > What do you guys think? Are you sure you want to know what I think about? ;) Andy [0] http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_7200_11.pdf -- Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows. -- Adam Heath - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
