The point I'm making is that you're asking for someone to contribute a
relatively large sum of money - you need a fairly wealthy sponsor.

TBH, if I had that much money sitting around to spare, I'd be far more
likely to donate it to a humanitarian project than a video library - sorry!

Salutations:

Ok brother saab guy - at the risk of further annoying you - have you  
checked your raw logs yet? 500g a month is *very* heavy traffic for what  
is in the end a pretty simple vid site. Even big vids.

You need to do your math and consider if it is realistic that you have the  
human user base to justify the transfer totals ('bandwidth' as you are  
reading it actually means 'transfer totals' as brother Grunff was saying).

I did some quick math and I'm still pretty much convinced that between you  
and your host, it is configured so that:

a: a user re-downloads the vid every time they kick up a view.

b: you are being cross linked from one of several pirate sites (again -  
hello apnic).

c: you are being slurped by one of many bots out there which rightfully  
need to be banned.

Look - I know that popular wisdom has it that any 6 year old can put up a  
full bore multi-media website. However, it takes some actual real effort  
to set it up and administer it so that it doesn't break the bank once it's  
up.

Very few site hosts take care of this for some really good reasons and the  
transfer warning you have received is sort of their way of saying you  
might want to look at all this more carefully. Ignorance of the detail is  
expensive as with any technical issue.

Sooo - again - get the raw logs and drop them into any spread sheet, then  
review on time stamp and kb transferred. You will find several entries  
that are getting your page, supporting images and starting vid downloads  
within a couple of secs. This is a likely a slurper. Look at banning the  
IP ranges. Although this is a pretty lame band-aid, it will help in the  
near term.

Check the referrer links into your site and back track to the IP. A red  
flag is a link to a vid without a corresponding visit to your site proper.  
You can use mod_rewrite to control this as you will likely find your vids  
(but not your site) dynamically linked through some very strange portals.  
You started posting direct vid links to this NG a while ago - they will be  
turning up in several places that swipe this NG to generate supposed  
content. Take some time with this:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=saabvideos&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

Please be aware - direct links are not always a pirate - sometimes someone  
just bookmarks a particular vid. However, with transfer heavy objects - it  
is good practice to require a site visit to download a vid.

Finally - you want to look at the multi-media client type that caches your  
vids locally at the user rather than calling a new download every time  
it's linked, stopped and started or paused.

Or, as I did, grudgingly replace your format with something that is  
substantially more controllable as regards transfer rates and client  
caching.

Now, I'm the first to say that RealAudio is kinda a pain - but most of my  
regulars are on non-windows platforms and have the beans to know how to  
cripple the annoying nagz-wares aspects of it. Also, as it has turned out,  
there are now a couple of good non-RealAudio free-warz players right now  
that will read the codex directly.

Anyway brother SAAB guy, I know this should be a freak out of the highest  
order for you at the moment. Here you are with a good free use site that  
is about to cost you winter tires. But like most things in life - doing  
the deeper reading will save you considerable bux once you are done.

Again - cheers and best of luck, it's a pretty good idea and worth the  
effort to figure these details out if you ask me.

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Graham,

What do you mean a suitable codec?? The only codec you can view these in IS DIVX, nothing other than that.

Stop searching around, the info is right on the page itself specifically indicating that you NEED ONLY Divx codec to play said videos.

Good luck! Let me know once you've installed that divx codec and got it working.

SG

Nice thing about subject lines, is if you read them, you can decide what
threads to not read.

Pidgeonpost,

This is a SAAB Newsgroup, I guess you are lost.

SG

I don't think so.  Aren't all of these videos in the public domain?  You
should be able to make a collection and sell it on DVD.

I can't say how big the market would be, but hey... you never know.

Dave,

Exactly.

SG

Saab Guy <nothing@yahoo.com> wrote:

I don't agree.  Installing the Azureus torrent client is trivial.  Then you
just double-click on a torrent link, and it opens in Azureus and starts
downloading.  When you get pieces downloaded, Azureus will automatically
start sharing it with other users.

I started using Azureus without knowing ANYthing about bittorrent.  It's
not rocket science.  As you get into it you can tweak and customize it
more, but it works just fine out of the box.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Gary

Of course they will, it's hardly any different from working out that
"Media player is unable to play the media file" due to a missing
Divx/Xvid Codec.

Can "normal" people work out what to do given a few instructions?

Here's the instructions for Bittorrent:-

Step 1. "You will need to install a bittorrent client, click HERE to
download one"

Step 2. "Click on the link to download the video"

Done.

Yes some people may have to forward a port on their router or configure
the PC into the DMZ, some will some won't but right now you have a
bigger problem than deciding whether the world is capable of loading a
client instead of downloading a huge pile of data from just one
overloaded site!

The solution is there, if you choose not to take it then I give up and
will not make any more suggestions but good luck in finding the
bandwidth you need.  I can't help but think that you're looking for
problems and not the solution.

If it makes you feel any better, why not continue to host them but also
offer bittorrent links?

I just wonder how many "normal" people find them on your site in the
first place instead of being newsgroup readers who are typically not
what I would put into the normal "I just read the bbc or my portal site
and check my email" category anyway.  You shouldn't assume that everyone
has little or no ability although to continue to attempt to solve their
problem is commendable! :)

David.