On 05-Nov-08 11:41, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> It took me about 20 minutes to edit the video with Virtual Dub. 
> (Apparently a 20-minute DVD decompresses to 29 GB of video. And 
> apparently just copying that amount of data around takes a really long 
> time. VD wasn't even using 10% CPU; it was *all* I/O time.) I had to 
> find the correct segment of video (even though VD refuses to decode the 
> sound that I now have the propper codec for), cut it out, scale it to 
> get the correct aspect ratio, crop it to the right size, realign the 
> sound with the picture (??!) and transcode it into something small 
> enough to upload.
> 
> It then took me 7 seperate attempts, over the course of 3 days, to 
> actually upload the ****ing file. (For some reason, every page on 
> YouTube has to be selected 12 or 15 times before it will actually, like, 
> *load*.) YouTube kept aborting the upload after about 20 minutes. (FWIW, 
> the video is 40 MB in size - pretty huge for an upload, but tiny by 
> video standards.)
> 
> But after many hours of work, the video is finally here in all its 
> glory, for all teh interwebs to see:
> 
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Z-mokvpoo
> 
> I wonder how many days it will be before some 12 year old posts a 
> comment telling me I suck?
> 
Yes, kids tend to be more honest than adults.

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