OT - Help Needed for a Stonefield Experiment Please

Stonefield wrote on 4/1/2005, 12:04 AM
Hey Guys,

I was wondering if you could help me with a bit of an experiment.

http://www.stonefieldmedia.com/films/sfm_DownTest3.html

Could you go to this page on my website and download the DV clip that is on there ? I'm doing some testing for uploading and downloading to and from my site. This is part of a project I've got in the works for the summer.

If you have time, shoot me an email and let me know how long it took to download it. Any other comments on downloading, loading of webpage, viewing the QT preview would be appreciated.

This is all the start of a new venture for me and I'd appreciate your input. If the page doesn't work or my server gets jammed up, I apologise as there's lot's to be worked out yet. But I just wanted to get this initial test up for the weekend.

Take it easy and thanks.

Stan Howard
www.stonefieldmedia.com
stonefield99@hotmail.com

Comments

Grazie wrote on 4/1/2005, 12:26 AM
Hiyah!

It's telling me it is going to take 13 minutes. I'm on BB with a top 576 down stream. Presently yours is hitting a max of 57kb/sec. 51/52 megs is a lot of downloading for a clip .. I think . . but IF your project ios about getting HQ DV to agents or whatever .. then maybe this IS what you need.

Hope this helps.

Grazie


. .. 9 mins to go . .so in the time its taken to type this it has gone down 4 mins - yeah?

Stonefield wrote on 4/1/2005, 12:34 AM
Thanks Grazie, that is actually good news !

I'm off to bed so I'm lookin forward to checking back on this thru the weekend.

"....but IF your project is about getting HQ DV to agents or whatever .. then maybe this IS what you need..."

That's a very good guess !

Stan
Grazie wrote on 4/1/2005, 12:37 AM
No sound? - Correct?

G
Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/1/2005, 1:01 AM
There was no sound? I didn't even notice :-)

Took me 2min 4sec (averaged 480KBs = nearly 4Mbps)
Fleshpainter wrote on 4/1/2005, 1:20 AM
17:50:00
Using DSL. Is this good or bad?
Chienworks wrote on 4/1/2005, 1:46 AM
4:01 here on RoadRunner, for an average of about 203Kbps.

And yes, we have no bananas ... err ... audio.
epirb wrote on 4/1/2005, 2:56 AM
1minute 45 seconds Cable/broadband at 7:00 am EST @ 560kbps.
Mine had sound but no lips! ....ok mine had no sound either, gotta go wipe up the drool off my keyboard now.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/1/2005, 3:38 AM

Stan, that took about 2 minutes, 15 seconds. Over 51MB for a 15 second video seems awfully large. Yes, it's .avi, but why not use Windows Media? Even at the highest bit rate, the file would be much smaller and look very, very good.


clearvu wrote on 4/1/2005, 3:40 AM
1.5 minutes. Almost 600 KBs
Stonefield wrote on 4/1/2005, 6:45 AM
Good morning everyone and happy Friday.

I gotta say I'm blown away ( and very happy ) with some of these download speeds! My upload to my webserver was 15 minutes. I wonder if FTP would be quicker.

I'm using DV- Avi files because I want to provide a file format that you can plop into a Vegas time line and edit with your own footage. I noticed stock houses use Quicktime files with the motion JPEG compression. I tried that but got the same file size. Still some more experiments to do. Oh and you're right...there is NO sound on these clips. I suggest playing some classic rock while you watch.

Let me throw this at ya while I'm here....If you had access to a stock footage site, what ready-for-editing format would you prefer it be in ?

Let me know and I'll throw another clip up.

This is great guys, still more to come.

Stan
Frenchy wrote on 4/1/2005, 7:07 AM
Took less than 3 miutes here, Corporate LAN.

Phil
Former user wrote on 4/1/2005, 7:11 AM
3 minutes - Cox Cable - Louisiana, USA

~ 300KB/Sec
BillyBoy wrote on 4/1/2005, 7:23 AM
Upload speeds are ALWAYS a fraction of download speed.

Considering it was peak high traffic time when I tested, I still got a respectable 2 minutes 18 seconds, which isn't bad for going across country. How many hops between your server and who's downloading does matter some. I'm near Chicago, your in Vancouver, right?
Stonefield wrote on 4/1/2005, 7:24 AM
Vancouver, you betcha.
jetdv wrote on 4/1/2005, 7:56 AM
Just shy of 16 minutes on DSL.
Grazie wrote on 4/1/2005, 7:57 AM
Hiyah goes . . this evening in London UK .. didn't do the whole 51MB .. but some timings . .24 hour clock:

Local MBs
Time

17:42 00.00

17:43 3.31

17:44 5.77

17:45 8.88

17:46 12.00

17:47 15.00

17:48 17.80

17:49 20.80

17:50 23.20

17:51 25.70

17:52 28.70

17:53 31.40

Just got to 31.40mbs and stop it . . . so roughly 10 mins for 31.4megs . . so roughly 3.1 meg/min - yeah?

Enough "Lip-service" . . ha ha ha . . .


Grazie





Tom Pauncz wrote on 4/1/2005, 10:37 AM
Hi,
I'm in Toronto and use Sympatico HS (100mbps). I had three tries at various times - 6.5, 5.5 and 4.5 minutes. The last one showed around 200kbps download speed.
Hope it helps,
Tom
epirb wrote on 4/1/2005, 1:40 PM
<If you had access to a stock footage site, what ready-for-editing format would you prefer it be in ?>
I'd prefer Sylvie or Rose came to my house personaly!
But if I had to choose it would be DV, or QT I'd like to say Wmv Hd 720p to but I dont reaaly know what that is like for editing(frame accuracy and all)
I'd wait for the long downloads of a DV avi depending on clip size of course, just for the quality. If thats what youre asking.
craftech wrote on 4/1/2005, 1:49 PM
4 minutes 26 seconds on a high speed cable internet connection at 5:40 EST.
The transfer rate steadily dwindled to a final transfer rate of 1.99KB/Sec.
It had no audio when I played it.

John
mjroddy wrote on 4/1/2005, 2:34 PM
About 2.5 min. Average 330 KB/Sec at work which is, I think a T1 or similar.
Stonefield wrote on 4/2/2005, 9:39 AM
Anyone else wanna try ?
theforce wrote on 4/2/2005, 11:05 AM
About 3:15 (Cable Modem)
PhilinCT wrote on 4/2/2005, 12:00 PM
12:30 DSL on East Coast
Redio wrote on 4/2/2005, 12:37 PM
29 min cablemodem 256 Kbit/s to Denmark

Rune