Another part of the problem might be that we got all excited about it, including making videos of it, before it was really a "feature" of Mefeedia. Verdi
-- Me: http://michaelverdi.com R&D: http://graymattergravy.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:13 PM, Devlon wrote: > I am still getting ramped up on all the inner workings, but it > isn't a perfect system yet, still being refined and it is possible > that the script went had troubles with some decoding, or missed a > post. > > I'll see if I can dig up some numbers on how many feeds are being > 'thumbed' but you'd be surprised how much chewing that script does. > > Then there's other things...we moved servers, the script was > stopped for a few days but people kept videoblogging :) Little > things like that. I wish it were as simple as number crunching, > but it's not right now. It will get more stable soon as we get > everything fleshed out. > > On 11/29/05, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dropped > a zero there obviously > but the argument stands > > > > Markus Sandy wrote: >> i understand all that >> but do the math: >> >> there are less than 2000 feeds as of today >> i think 500 videos per feed is grossly over estimating most >> people's *average* output >> that's 100,000 thumbs >> we have been told that they have been generating them for several >> weeks (months?) now >> let's assume only 6 weeks = 6 x 7 x 24 x 60 = 60480 minutes >> that's 16 minutes per thumb and counting >> >> more likely, there is an average of less than 200 videos per feed >> at this time >> so 40 minutes per thumb or higher? >> wow, that's a lot! >> >> this still does not explain why older video thumbs are not slowly >> showing up for me and why some new ones aren't >> (no changes in codec here) >> >> >> Joshua Kinberg wrote: >>> Thumbnail generation is a very CPU intensive process. >>> Mefeedia's server must download your videos, extract thumbs and save >>> them, then remove the video. Not to mention there are often >>> errors due >>> to various video codecs and the fact that it can be hard to >>> decode all >>> types and extract images. >>> >>> Even Yahoo! has difficulty in this area, and they have much better >>> server resources than MeFeedia. Someone in Yahoo! Media Search once >>> told me that it can take several days for a video to be indexed >>> properly even after the crawler has discovered the video. Its for >>> the >>> same exact reason. There is a batch queue set up to extract the >>> thumbnails and do whatever other processing needed on the file >>> before >>> it gets indexed properly by the search engine. >>> >>> >>> -Josh >>> >>> >>> On 11/29/05, Devlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Our thumbnail generating code got a bit behind, but it will >>>> catch up soon. >>>> >>>> On 11/29/05, Christopher Ivanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Problem with using mefeedia's archive code is that it does not >>>>> consistently >>>>> show thumbnails for all videos. Why do some vlogs don't have >>>>> pics, and >>>>> others do not. That's been an ongoing problem for a long, long >>>>> time. >>>>> >>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 11/29/05, Steve Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> set blogger to show one post per page >>>>>> >>>>>> that takes care of question #1 >>>>>> >>>>>> you can use mefeedia's archive code to display a list of >>>>>> thmbnails for >>>>>> previous shows >>>>>> >>>>>> http://mefeedia.com >>>>>> >>>>>> --Steve >>>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Fire wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Id like a template that could make my site (look and operate) >>>>>>> like >>>>>>> rocketboom.com.... (see below) >>>>>>> I like their interface... nice and simple... with the most >>>>>>> current >>>>>>> video automatically loading on the first page, and thumbnails >>>>>>> of the >>>>>>> recently archived ones below... >>>>>> --Steve >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Home Page - http://stevegarfield.com >>>>>> Video Blog - http://stevegarfield.blogs.com >>>>>> Text Blog - http://offonatangent.blogspot.com >>>>>> >>>>>> Like Paul Revere, leading the citizen's media revolution. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> ________________________________ >>>>> YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. >>>>> >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> >>>>> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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