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High Quality Videos of Social Significant
Newest addition is JFK II: The Bush Connection, added January 11, 2005.View this instead of the Bush Inaugural Celebrations!
MPEG4 compressed and encoded in DivX format and put on the Internet for
BitTorrent download. You will need two of the newest pieces of Internet
technology to enjoy them, BitTorrent and DivX.
If you are not familiar with them, allow us to introduce them. Both are
guaranteed to play cutting edge roles in '05 and beyond.
BitTorrent is an Open Source file sharing technology. You use it to download the video files.
DivX is a video compression technology. You use it to watch or otherwise use the video files.
If you aren't already using these technologies, you will probably have to download and install some new software to do so. I have made it easy. Just pick your Operating System here: [MS Windows] [Linux] [Mac OSX] and follow the instructions.
BitTorrent is an Open Source file sharing technology. You use it to download the video files.
DivX is a video compression technology. You use it to watch or otherwise use the video files.
If you aren't already using these technologies, you will probably have to download and install some new software to do so. I have made it easy. Just pick your Operating System here: [MS Windows] [Linux] [Mac OSX] and follow the instructions.
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Tools for Downloading and Viewing these and many other Video files.
Pick Your Poison: Windows, Linux or Mac OSX
Pick Your Poison: Windows, Linux or Mac OSX
| Software for MS Windows |
Download |
Instructions |
| BitTorrent Client |
Bittorrent-3.4.2.exe |
Click on the link to the right
and SAVE it to the DESKTOP. Then Double-Click it to run it. It will
install the BitTorrent Client and notify your browsers that it now
handles the .torrent file type. Once this is done you may use the BitTorrent Download links above to download the Video files. |
| DivX Codec and Player |
DivX 5.2.1 |
Use the link to the right to
download the free DivX software for your version of Windows and SAVE it
to the Desktop. Then Double-Click it to run it. It will install the
DivX codec that allows MP3 audio compression as well as advanced MPEG4
video compression. With the codec installed, Windows Media Player as
well as many other Windows Video applications can work with these video
files. Since these are high quality video files they can, for example,
be read into a DVD mastering program and burned to DVD. They can also
just be played with the included DivX Player or the Windows Media
Player. |
| Software for Linux |
Download |
Instructions |
| BitTorrent Client |
BitTorrent-3.4.2.tar.gz or RPM Package |
If
your Linux is of recent vintage then BitTorrent is probably already
included if not already installed. Look for binary packages for
your distro. If you use RPM Packages look here first. Here are some more: [Red Hat/Fedora] [SUSe] [Debian] [Java] Of course you can always download the source from the link at the left uncompress it and follow the instructions in INSTALL.unix.txt |
| MPlayer |
MPlayer-v1.0 |
MPlayer is your all purpose Multimedia Player for Linux. Not only will it play DivX mpeg4 videos but with the proper codec, most other formats including DVDs.
If your distro is current it is probably already installed or available
on your CDs. You can also get the source and many binaries from the
link to the left. More packages: [Red Hat/Fedora] [Other RPMs] [Debian] |
| Software for Mac OSX |
Download |
Instructions |
| BitTorrent Client |
BitTorrent-3.4.2 |
Click on the link to the right
and SAVE it to the DESKTOP. Then Double-Click it to run it. It will
install the BitTorrent Client and notify your browsers that it now
handles the .torrent file type. Once this is done you may use the BitTorrent Download links above to download the Video files. |
| MPlayer for Mac OSX |
MPlayer-0.8.4 |
MPlayer OS X is a binary distribution of MPlayer and comes with native GUI in Mac OSX. After installation you can simply (by Drag&Drop) play almost all 3ivx, DivX 3,4,5 and other codecs files in the window or full screen mode. Rendering of very nice antialiased text-based subtitles is also supported. |
| More on BitTorrent: BitTorrent is an innovative Internet file sharing technology. It allows for very fast download because a large file is divided into chunks and can download simultaneously from multiple servers. The beauty of the BitTorrent system is that every downloader becomes a potential uploader for the chunks of the file they already have. And long as they keep the BitTorrent client running on their computer, they can continue to serve the file to others. As you probably already know, the problem with traditional means of file delivery such as ftp is that the more popular a file become, the more it taxes the resources of a single or a few servers, and the slower the download becomes. Been there, done that! This is especially problematic for organizations that may not have the cash to go for the corporate solution of simply buying bigger computers and fatter pipes. With the BitTorrent approach your upload bandwidth does not go to waste while you are downloading a large file, and the more popular a file is, the more sources there are for it so it actually becomes faster to download rather than the opposite. In other words, it scales well. As it turns out sharing the burden of serving up a file among computers that operate in a co-operative peer-to-peer network where they give as well as receive works better than the single source method. Surprise! Surprise! BitTorrent is Open Source software licensed under MIT's version of GNU's General Public License [GPL] (also known as copyleft) which is another way of saying that is a gift to humanity from Bram Cohen and the many of other developers of this labor of love. Naturally Hollywood is not happy about this gift, as this AP article in the Houston Chronicle shows. They are gearing up to crush all file sharing systems and BitTorrent as possibly their biggest threat precisely because of the advantages outlined above. As it is currently implemented, BitTorrent still requires a bit of centralism. For each file there must always be at least one active seed and BitTorrent tracker to coordinate the service of the file. Linux Beach is happy to provide the tracker and seed services for this collection. Soon even this single point of failure or attack will be a thing of the past, as this recent Slashdot article notes. This is Hollywood's worst nightmare! Technical Notes: BitTorrent is still dependent on the speed of your connection. If you are on dialup a Video might take 8 hours or more to download so set the job to run at night. Troubleshooting BitTorrent Notes on using BitTorrent through a firewall |
| What is DivX?: The short answer is that DivX does for video what MP3 did for audio. If you haven't heard of it yet, you will. It is a brand name implementation of MPEG4 video compression. Our current DVD's use the earlier MPEG2 compression, but DivX, by using more advanced technology, can compress the same quality video to about a quarter the space. Over 120 million people worldwide have downloaded the DivX codec and hundreds of thousands of DivX encoded movies can be found on the Internet. Also an creasing number of consumer electronics items speak DivX, from DVD Players to PDA's. Just a few sites to get you started. One of the biggest sites for DivX movies available for BitTorrent download is SuperNova.org. They claim thousand of Movies and millions of MP3s. Torrentocracy as you might guess, specializes in politic videos. More info: DivX Digest DivX for Linux Windows divx 3.11alpha codec |