WARNING: We (mods) have had just about enough of people spoiling, quoting, and arguing in this thread. This is the crack down kiddies. Don't get caught in the impending fire storm
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This thread is holy ground. Any post that is not a VOD link post or a Thank You will be 1984'd .
I've always refrained from cluttering this, the best thread on TL, with repetitive thank-yous, but some recent posts have inspired me to commemorate page 415(!) and share some community love with the best posters of today and the distant past, and all the readers.
Many have gone before (thanks yakii, wherever you are; this thread was a great idea), some have been forgotten (thanks Pholon and marcoso!! my lifelines through many seasons), yet the Small Vod thread lives and breathes. At this time, I want to acknowledge an Irish gent who came out of nowhere and rescued a floundering community of BW watchers from the oblivion threatened by SC2, after the painful loss of Jon747. I watched SC2 carefully and thoroughly during its first 3 tournament months, wanting to give it a fair chance to captivate me, but found the level of competition immature compared to the highly-evolved Broodwar, and I gave it up.
Unfortunately, when I returned to this thread, that meant I was 3 months behind. It took me many months watching at a breakneck pace to make up that lost time. It's amazing how much can transpire in Korean e-sports in 3 months. If not for moktira, I would never have been able to catch up with what I missed. Does anyone remember back before moktira had access to the official TL channel, before he earned his star? He uploaded the videos split into pieces, with nested spoil-free tags, to his own youtube account. His dedication was apparent from the quality of his posts... and let's not ever forget their speed! "Time traveler" people have whispered...
Thank you, moktira; you do honor to all who have come before you, and you deserve all the praise you get. I hope, like a pro-gamer, it inspires and helps you. I've been F5'ing this thread since 2008 - may we never have to stop!
On July 10 2011 20:29 Blink1928 wrote: I know this is not like the VODs which were posted before but I just watched this Movie yesterday and I can say it is the best movie I have ever seen rlyrly EPIC!
Everyone who is interested in everything which has to do with SC/BW should SEE this!
It's totally Mind-Blowing!
Pretty sure everyone that's interested with SC/BW saw it OVER TWO YEARS AGO.
Congrats on getting the internet though. Let me know if you have any questions on how to use email and facebook. I know it can seem a little overwhelming at first.
I've created what is basically a playlist of Moktira's uploads. Essentially, by clicking on this link, you will begin at game 1 and continue throughout the series with minimal distraction (click the "next" button if you want to skip the postgame commentary). Personally, I've always been less satisfied watching VODs than live. Hopefully, playing them in order without the need to pause or click on new links will mimic the live experience somewhat.
By all means, it's probably much easier to use the individual links when looking for an individual game. I'm just creating / posting these in case anyone finds them useful.
As a forward note, I'm currently requesting for features such as customizing start / end times, which could streamline the viewing experience. (I realize that this is possible on Youtube as well, but I appreciate the pregame and postgame replays and graphics, so it would be nice to customize this on a third party client).
On July 14 2011 02:35 Carefree wrote: As a forward note, I'm currently requesting for features such as customizing start / end times, which could streamline the viewing experience. (I realize that this is possible on Youtube as well, but I appreciate the pregame and postgame replays and graphics, so it would be nice to customize this on a third party client).
For what it's worth, you can add #t=XmYs to the end of the VOD hyperlink in order to make clicking the link start at X minutes and Y seconds (not sure if that's what you mean there).
On July 14 2011 02:35 Carefree wrote: As a forward note, I'm currently requesting for features such as customizing start / end times, which could streamline the viewing experience. (I realize that this is possible on Youtube as well, but I appreciate the pregame and postgame replays and graphics, so it would be nice to customize this on a third party client).
For what it's worth, you can add #t=XmYs to the end of the VOD hyperlink in order to make clicking the link start at X minutes and Y seconds (not sure if that's what you mean there).
Anyways, thanks again for the dedication Moktira!
Oh, yeah. That is really convenient. Is there a similar feature for stopping the video?
And on that note, would it seem "more real" with the pregame and postgame commentary, or would say, cutting each video at the beginning and end of a game be preferred? Opinions?
(Mods: If this discussion is too off topic just let me know.)
Thanks so much to moktira who makes me feel lazy since I don't download torrents anymore. You upload so fast! I wonder how the BW scene would be without you.
I will be away later so will not be able to upload the MSL Survivor Tournament Groups 3 and 4 until tomorrow.
Also Carefree, most people rather not having the start of the VODs, hence you always get someone on YouTube posting the starting time, however some people do like it, so it's better to be able to skip it than to cut it out and not have the option to watch it.
In that case, I hope to be figure out a way to cut VODs at both the beginning and the end. And perhaps create some quick 2-3 second "videos" to smooth the transition, if possible.
First of all, big thanks, Moktira. I have a question, though. The Day 1 vods for the OSL ro16 were amazingly good quality. Day 2's vids seem to be back to ro24 quality, which is slightly darker with interlacing. Any chance of seeing vods like Day 1 again? My subscribers would be thrilled!
If I get them directly from the ogn website the quality's very nice, however I'm having a bit of trouble with that method at the moment, if I get them from torrents the quality tends to vary a lot, I'll try to grab these four from the ogn site tomorrow though if you want and see if it works. Also I've a nice MBC source at the moment so quality there should be fine for the time being.
Edit: Actually let me just add more to that, if I get the VODs straight from the ogn website and re-upload it to YouTube the quality will be like in this series. That's not the best quality VODs that I upload though as the bitrate on the VODs from ogn isn't particularly high. Some of the Korean torrent uploaders convert it to .avi and seriously crank up the bitrate so it looks a bit nicer. If the torrent is up before I've finished downloading it from the ogn website I'll upload that version, I don't always watch it though to see what the quality is like so when I got the torrent today I just uploaded it immediately assuming the quality was the standard however I should have suspected it mightn't have been perfect as the torrent was up before the VODs were on the ogn website, so who ever uploaded that either recorded it from a live-stream or a television.
And you specifically mentioned the quality in the OSL Ro24, I think Groups B and C were ones I got straight from ogn rather than torrents, so that's probably what the standard ogn quality is like, did you think those groups in particular were worse than the Ro16 Day 1 for example? You can pm me if you want to ask any more anyway.
EPT
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