Good Technology Gone to Waste
Why is it that you can easily download the entire series of Deep Space Nine if you have the disk space and know where to look, but you can’t grab a BitTorrent of the Clarke testimony? (There is, however, a transcript.)
Why is it that you can easily download the entire series of Deep Space Nine if you have the disk space and know where to look, but you can’t grab a BitTorrent of the Clarke testimony? (There is, however, a transcript.)
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March 26th, 2004 at 11:40 pm
A lot of stuff is available via streaming real video from CSPAN:
Search results for “clarke”
March 27th, 2004 at 12:19 am
C-SPAN would be so much more useful if they had permalinks up for their video clips.
The evil of javascript must be stopped.
March 27th, 2004 at 12:32 am
Yes, and more importantly, I don’t get nearly enough bandwidth on the train to stream video. :] I tried to find suitable stream recording tools, to no avail…
March 27th, 2004 at 8:41 pm
Well, as it happens, I did manage to get the hidden link for the Clark testimony–when I tried to watch it, the link popped up in the error message text. It’s
rtsp://video.c-span.org/archive/ter/ter032404_cmsnpm.rm?mode=compact
Unfortunately, Streambox and XFileGet are the only stream-recording tools I know, and the squirrels at Real have long since outsmarted them. Anybody else know how we can keep this li’l treasure for our very own? I’d love to edit together the good bits into a distribute-able MPEG.
March 29th, 2004 at 1:15 pm
Well, somebody’s got an excellent condensed version up for us, as a quicktime:
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002098.php