I've got something big planned....

[beccasmile88]

I have some questions about video files.

So which kind of file is smaller in size? Real media? winap? windows media player? real one player? Which one is most widely used? Is there a difference in quality?

If I then wanted to convert a whole bunch of files that are all different kinds into one type of file, what would I use? HOw exactly could I do that without compromising any quality?


And then, this one might sound stupid, but if I have a 200,000 kb limit, and I have 141 mb of files, how does that compare? Obviously I am over my limit, but am I twice over it? or three times? I can't remember what KB and MB stand for. (I know it's 'something' bytes though! I'm not all that computer illererate!)

Thanks so much for your help! I will have something big that (some of you) will really appriciate!! I can't wait to revel it!

Any help with this would be great!

-beccasmile88

 

[nessonite1]

1 meg is about 1,000 kilobytes. 1 Kilobyle is about 1,000 bytes. In turn I think 1 gig is about 1,000 megs.
I THHINK real media files are the smallest but don't quote me on that.

 

[beccasmile88]

thanks for your imput!

Now since what I am doing will be primarily F/M, what type of files do you prefer?

: )

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

1 GB means 1 billion bytes, another way of putting it.

 

[MistressValerie1]

If you are making your own videos, Windows Media format (avi or mpe) coded with Divx 5.x offers outstanding compression with high quality. Real Media offers excellent compression but at a loss of quality, while Apple Quicktime is falling into disuse and is not recommended.

BTW, 1 kB = approximately 1000 bytes, 1024 to be precise. 1 MB = 1,048,576 bytes, so 141 MB = almost 148 kB.

As to the kind of F/M material I'd like to see, my favourite clips are dial-up-friendly (3 MB or less), showing F/M or multiple F's/M upper-body tickling, preferably "freestyle" and with a 'lee who isn't overly strong looking (i.e., where it's believeable that he could be overpowered by average-sized F's) 🙂

 

[beccasmile88]

well thank you. That was the best reply yet! 141 MB=148KB, that helps me out.

And unfortunatly at this time I will not actually be making my own videos, although now that I read what I wrote it does sound like that! Maybe someday (I would hope) but I would first have to find someone willing! And of course tell my boyfriend about all of this, and the somhow either convince him to do it, or let me do it to someone else. That's not going to be very soon.

I am actually getting a collection of all */m clips I can find, and posting them somplace in a user friendly, downloadable place. I have already searched through the 88 pages of clips here at TT and found every last F/M, M/M, and */M clip there is. I will get to the image section in the next week.

Dialup friendly clips is something I hadn't thought of! I will have to look into that and spilt some of them up.

Thanks again, and look for my post, probabbly in the next couple of days!

 

[nessonite1]

Awesome Bacca. 😛 If you're looking to split files WinRAR allows you to specify how big each section will be to stay within the file size limit (set it to 1.9 megs). I hope in searching you found the NEWGABE files I uploaded at some point. There are 2 parts.It's my favorite. 😀

 

[MistressValerie1]

Glad to be of help, B 🙂

Nessie, I love WinRAR myself; there are several free programs that can extract RAR archives, so it shouldn't be a problem for most people. HJSplit and Hacha are also good, but most forums other than Yahoo Groups require that you zip or rar each file part after splitting because of the allowed extensions list.

 

[beccasmile88]

Awesome Bacca. 😛 If you're looking to split files WinRAR allows you to specify how big each section will be to stay within the file size limit (set it to 1.9 megs). I hope in searching you found the NEWGABE files I uploaded at some point. There are 2 parts.It's my favorite. 😀

newgabe, got it!

 

[nessonite1]

Kickass 😀. I was SO jazzed when I found the second part to it as well as a larger and clearer version. It's a classic to be sure. 😀

 

[Slant]

141 MB=148KB, that helps me out.

Ah, just in case this puts a dampener on your plans, 141 MB is not 148 KB... 141 MB is roughly 141 000 KB 🙂 One potential problem you should be aware of is the difference between bits and bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte. Traditionally bits is abbreviated to b and the byte takes the symbol B; hence 200 000 kB is very different from 200 000 kb (ignore the difference between K and k for now 🙂 ).

As for formats, to be honest there's not much difference between Real formats and Windows Media. However most people hate RealPlayer, and you have to get that or an equivalent installed to watched that stuff; whereas most people will by now be running a version of Windows with a modern enough copy of Media Player to be able to view WMV formats without further hassle.

 

[MistressValerie1]

I left off the ,000 from kB, lol. I meant that 141 MB is about 148,000 kB, a MB being 1024 kB, a kB being 1024 B, and 1 B(yte) being 8 b(its) 🙂

 

[beccasmile88]

okay, okay. this is all very confusing.

Thanks for all your help!

I think I have figured it all out now though!!!

I think I will announce my big plans tomorow, or at least by Christmas.

 

[Slant]

Looking forward to it 🙂

 

[beccasmile88]

all done!!!!! see my post in the commnity link section!

 

[cosquillero1]

1 GB means 1 billion bytes, another way of putting it.

there's a bit wrong of calculation, 1 GB = 1024 MB not 1 billion bytes, 1 billion bytes would be aprox 1024 GB.

 

[nessonite1]

Isn't that a terrabyte?

1 billion bytes would be aprox 1024 GB.

 

[cosquillero1]

Isn't that a terrabyte?

Yeah 1 TB = 1 Billion of bytes, you're right !! 🙂.

 

[tequilafiction]

Ness and Vlad are right....1 billion bytes is a GigaByte, and 1024 GB is a TerraByte.

For future reference:

1 B = 8 bits
1 KB = 1024 B
1 MB = 1024 KB = 1,048,576 B
1 GB = 1024 MB = 1,048,576 KB = 1,073,741,824 B
1 TB = 1024 GB = 1,048,576 MB = 1,073,741,824 KB = 1,099,511,627,776 B

- tf

 

[cinnabar]

be careful about bandwidth

if you are paying for the place you are hosting these clips
i'd check to see how much bandwidth (sort of like traffic going to and from your server) you are allotted per month
think of it like cell phone overage charges, you are allowed a certain number of talk time minutes per month and if you go over that they start charging you

for example

if you have 148MB and 100 people download every clip you have, that is nearly 15GB worth of bandwidth

if you have 148MB and 500 people download 12MB of this, then that is 6GB of bandwidth

blah blah blah now i'm rambling

just be careful if you are actually paying for this web space to host these files for other people to download

 

[cosquillero1]

Ness and Vlad are right....1 billion bytes is a GigaByte, and 1024 GB is a TerraByte.

For future reference:

1 B = 8 bits
1 KB = 1024 B
1 MB = 1024 KB = 1,048,576 B
1 GB = 1024 MB = 1,048,576 KB = 1,073,741,824 B
1 TB = 1024 GB = 1,048,576 MB = 1,073,741,824 KB = 1,099,511,627,776 B

- tf

You're wrong 1024 MB = 1 GB, not 1,099,511,627,776 (1 Billion of bytes) , 1 TB is aprox. 1 Billion of bytes, while 1 GB = 1024 MB not 1 Billion. I'm infromatic engineer (System/Computer/Networking) and i work with this everyday. Review your calculations.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Copied from a sticky at Gaia Online:
Simple Guide to Bits and Bytes

Simple Bytes

These "simple bytes" are bytes that any computer user should know and are the most common values.

Reference: Techincally all of the values are 1024 instead of 1000 but 1000 is much more simple and is very commonly accepted. For more accurate values consult my complex bit guide.

Bit = 1 Bit
Byte = 8 Bits
Kilobyte = 1000 Bytes
Megabyte = 1000 Kilobytes
Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes
Terabyte = 1000 Gigabytes

High Bytes

These "high bytes" are bytes so high you will most likely never hear them in non-geek talk. These are generally used when discussing super computers.

Reference: Techincally all of the values are 1024 instead of 1000 but 1000 is much more simple and is very commonly accepted. For more accurate values consult my complex bit guide.

Petabyte = 1000 Terabytes
Exabyte = 1000 Petabytes
Zettabyte = 1000 Exabytes
Yottabyte = 1000 Zettabytes

Complex Bytes

These are bytes that you will almost never hear even in geek talk. They are all sub-kilobyte.

Reference: The size of a word is based on the average size of typed words.

Nibble = 4 Bits
Wyde/Halfword = 2 Bytes
Word = 4 Bytes
Double/Double Word/Octabyte = 8 Bytes
Quad/Quad Word = 16 Bytes

This post was brought to you by Linux.


Hopefully this clears it up. XD You people are craaazy about the bytes and bits.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Here, have another. This had best solve the dispute. 😛

Complex Bit and Byte Guide

Bit

1 Bit

Nibble

4 Bits

Byte

2 Nibbles
8 Bits

Wyde

2 Bytes
4 Nibbles
16 Bits

Word

2 Wydes
4 Bytes
8 Nibbles
32 Bits

Octabyte

2 Words
4 Wydes
8 Bytes
16 Nibbles
64 Bits

Quad/Quad Word

2 Octabytes
4 Words
8 Wydes
16 Bytes
32 Nibbles
128 Bits

Kilobyte

64 Quads
128 Octabytes
256 Words
512 Wydes
1024 Bytes
2048 Nibbles
8192 Bits

Megabyte

1024 Kilobytes
65,536 Quads
131,072 Octabytes
262,144 Words
524,288 Wydes
1,048,576 Bytes
2,097,152 Nibbles
8,388,608 Bits

Gigabyte

1024 Megabytes
1,048,576 Kilobytes
67,108,864 Quads
134,217,728 Octabytes
268,435,456 Words
536,870,912 Wydes
1,073,741,824 Bytes
2,147,483,648 Nibbles
8,589,934,592 Bits

Terabyte

1024 Gigabytes
1,048,576 Megabytes
1,073,741,824 Kilobytes
68,719,476,736 Quads
137,438,953,472 Octabytes
274,877,906,944 Words
549,755,813,888 Wydes
1,099,511,627,776 Bytes
2,199,023,255,552 Nibbles
8,796,093,022,208 Bits

Petabyte

1024 Terabytes
1,048,576 Gigabytes
1,073,741,824 Megabytes
1,099,511,627,776 Kilobytes
70,368,744,177,664 Quads
140,737,488,355,328 Octabytes
281,474,976,710,656 Words
562,949,953,421,312 Wydes
1,125,899,906,842,624 Bytes
2,251,799,813,685,248 Nibbles
9,007,199,254,750,992 Bits

Exabyte = 1024 Petabytes

Under Construction

Zettabyte = 1024 Exabytes

Under Consturction

Yottabyte = 1024 Zettabytes

Under Construction

 

[MistressValerie1]

The term "billion" has different meanings in different countries, which is the reason for the confusion. According to dictionary.com, a billion usually means 10 to the 9th power, but in British usage, it can also mean 10 to the 12th power (a "trillion" in American English). Cosquillero is using the British definition of a billion, which is probably the common usage in Spanish-speaking countries as well.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=billion

 

[cosquillero1]

The term "billion" has different meanings in different countries, which is the reason for the confusion. According to dictionary.com, a billion usually means 10 to the 9th power, but in British usage, it can also mean 10 to the 12th power (a "trillion" in American English). Cosquillero is using the British definition of a billion, which is probably the common usage in Spanish-speaking countries as well.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=billion

You're right, this's a translation trouble rather than a maths trouble. In all latin-american, spain, united kingdom and many others countries 1 Billón (Billion?) = 1,000,000,000,000. 1 Trillón (Trillion?) = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. I apologize for this issue because, i hadn't idea that this concept could to change in U.S.A. Thanks you MistressValerie for to clear this to me.