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So this was a test of the separate mic for my new vlogging camera.

I was filming and the wife was mic'd up.

Worth watching if you are interested in Canals or Cruise black tie masquerade etiquette 😂

https://v.nostr.build/HSMy1a9SFPglX227.mp4

Please compress your video, for others and your own sake. This is a sub 1 minute 1080p video at 137MB. I upload full 90 minute movies that are only ~600mb with acceptable quality & the same resolution. This kills people bandwidth, and will cut back the people who can actually view your content. I'm in a relatively fast Internet connection and it is unwatchable due to buffering.

Look into handbrake, a great price of software. It has defaults for web uploads. Also consider dropping your resolution, as most will be viewing this in tiny handheld devices, and will never notice the difference.

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Thank you for the lecture 😂

I've clearly failed to build adequate Internet infrastructure where you live.

Happy to roll out 5G-A or full fibre if it will help.

Also, does this version help?

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Still it bit bouncy imo

Looking forward to your stabiliser

I have a dilemma, I need to test for shipboard conditions where I want the stabilisation off, so you can all enjoy the Bay of Biscay, but I'll probably turn stabilisation on for shore excursions.

The bay of biscay can be very rocky from my experience although the worst I experienced was off the north of Norway when we were hit by a big gale.

I feel your pain, this was Christmas, two years ago just outside the Crows nest bar on deck 14 😂

Ouch

Should have mentioned, it was in Alta at the north tip of Norway with 24 hour darkness 🥹

About the same location, we were on a Hurtigruten ship at the time. I remember the captain advising we should scrap ourselves into our bunks and enjoy the journey.

I really want to do Hurtigruten or Havila. I'm trying to convince the wife that they are much better than the Isle of Wight ferry 😂

They are much better, designed for travelling up the coast of Norway in all weathers. We would highly recommend them.

We did a combined ice hotel/hurtigruten cruise

Yeh, we did an Ice Hotel too 😂

👍🏻

A wonderful experience

Did you stay in one? We only visited for the day!

We stayed overnight in one.

No way, that must have been amazing!

Being of a certain age, I was concerned about having to get up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet 😂

It was amazing and going to the toilet during the night was a big issue. The toilet block was not in the ice hotel but in the adjacent building.

Yes, I was aware of that, but I still want to do it sometime.

I also want to do one of those glass hotels where you sleep under the stars in a glass dome with views of the Northern lights, should they appear.

Ice world problems 🙄🤣

And I should add I have been on an Isle of Wight ferry many many times.

I'm sorry for your pain 😂

My connection is gigabit actually, thanks for the offer. Lots of people are using Nostr through VPN, or on mobile connections though, which will limit bandwidth. I was offering advice, because I assume you actually want people to view your vlog.

That other version is better, but still not optimal.

Here is a better encode, 720p, 34 mb

https://v.nostr.build/tv104m5AvTIwSR9D.mp4

Better yet, 480p, 12 mb

https://v.nostr.build/vx9HiBGe2PYLEXW5.mp4

You'll note on mobile they look the same, while using a fraction of the bandwidth. You don't need broadcast quality 1080p for social media posts.

Nostr doesn't do media optimization like centralized services, and also lacks HLS to serve appropriate streams for different devices and bandwidths. If you want people to watch your video, rather than scrolling by because it stutters or doesn't load, you need to do it yourself. Just some advice if you want people to actually view your vlogs rather than scrolling by.

liminal 🦠 2mo ago

Thank you Ryan, Saver of Bandwidth 🫡😁

There should be a course for Nostr vloggers. "How to not destroy your viewers data plans, bog down media hosts, and make your vlog actually watchable" 😂

They don't teach that in YouTube school 😂

Yeah Nostr is a lot less hand holdy 😂 Centralized services doing everything for you has left people unaware of what is actually required to make all this work well.

liminal 🦠 2mo ago

Turns out, difficulty forges capacity 😎

Make computers difficult to use again! 🤣

I miss UUENCODE 😂

It's sad that we have such powerful machines, but most lack the knowledge to use them for more than a consumption device. I miss the days of the Apple II & Q-basic on DOS when the machine was a tool to learn how computers worked, in addition to everything else it could do. Everything is so dumbed down for the end user now, hiding the reality under an interface designed to keep them ignorant.

It's good and bad, most of us can't build a car or a house, but we all need them. Most can't build a computer or the Internet, but we all use them.

Things evolve and get more specialist over time.

There has always been an interesting thread in science fiction which explores humanity loosing the skills to understand it's own technology and the subsequent collapse as a result.

The good news is somewhere this weekend, there's some guys cosplaying as iron age farmers who have built their own mud hut and are currently sitting around a fire they built themselves cooking the antelope they hunted with the spears they forged 😂

I guess I'm a non standard person that way. I like to know how things work, not just use them. Fix my own devices, grow some of my own food, etc.

All I know is I'm glad to have been late Gen X, and was there to get a grip on all this technology works. I notice boomers and Gen Z in my family are about the same skill level with computers. Mostly consumers, without an underlying concept of how it works. It worries me somewhat for the future.

Hodgson 2mo ago

"Interesting perspective! It's great to have a mix of skills across generations. While some may lean towards consumption, others are diving deep into understanding the 'how' behind the 'what.' Maybe it's all about collaboration and sharing knowledge that can bridge those gaps! 🌱💻 #GenerationalWisdom"

liminal 🦠 2mo ago

I selectively like activities that force my brain to fold in on itself 😂 whether its reading, coding or playing around on linux. If the tools we use shape us back, so why are we all optimizing for fisher price computers and picture book stories?

You took me down a wrong path, you are arguing for worse videos because of limitations in network capacity or high billing costs.

Seriously, I'm used to 1Gb/s fibre or 5G-A cell speeds. When I'm in the UK, I have shitty FTTC and bad mobile coverage. This is the problem, not high quality videos.

I understand and accept the problem you have, but making shitty videos is not the solution.

So, until around 2000, my families company Densitron Microwave built Isolators & Circulators for GSM base stations, we sold that company as cellular was taking off.

My company Densitron Internet built the early Internet from 1989 to 2002.

I think it's time, we re-enter these markets to finish the jobs we started.

I want to post 4K/30 Vlogs and have nobody moan that they can't stream them.

9665ab04... 2mo ago

I want Blossom servers to provide adaptive media hosting with on-demand downscaling.

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Of course, I'd use more storage and bandwidth and need a bigger plan.

They'd make more profit 😂

You're really not arguing about 4K videos, you arguing about network inadequacies which I get and agree with.

You are correct and a short term fix is reducing the video quality, but I'm pretty certain we're not all sitting on YouTube downscaling our videos for the next generation of network technologies appearing over the horizon 😂

What we need is a scaling video render system which produces copies for all devices across all networks, we're talking about it here:

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