Availability of CocoaHeads Videos

It looks like we put up some pretty big numbers for video downloads in the last few weeks, and the host throttled our connections. We're looking at other options, but the videos should be available on via torrents. There are also mirrors here and here.

Thanks to everyone who has mirrored or contributed to the torrents.
Design Element
Availability of CocoaHeads Videos
Posted May 26, 2008 — 16 comments below




 

Jane — May 27, 08 5927

Hey Scott! I just want to add that if you do need help seeding on torrents, I could totally volunteer my 100mbit server for a terabyte or two every month in the future. I just..didn't know about the existence of the torrents this time. :(

bjoern — May 27, 08 5928

hi,

I was trying to download the UI Design Essentials video but with no luck. Any chance that there will be a mirror or torrent for this video, too?
The torrent for Introduction to Cocoa worked very well...

bjoern — May 27, 08 5929

hi,

I was trying to download the UI Design Essentials video but with no luck. Any chance that there will be a mirror or torrent for this video, too?
The torrent for Introduction to Cocoa worked very well...

Jeff — May 27, 08 5930

I am not surprised at the amount of interest.

I have been seeding.

Jordan — May 27, 08 5934

Do you know if there is a torrent for:
1. UI Design Essentials
2. Core Animation Intro

I have been trying to get the videos from these nights. I am looking for ways to expand my knowledge in cocoa. I'm just starting out and sometimes apples developer materials don't explain things well enough so I like having videos like these on hand.

Brian Christensen — May 27, 08 5935

I am mirroring them as well:

Introduction to Cocoa (aka "Best of Both Worlds") - 1.1G

Meeting Introduction and Demos - 743MB

Michal — May 27, 08 5937

Very good presentation, very useful.

Thanks for sharing.

(like your captcha)

Aaron Tait — May 27, 08 5938

You should check out LibSyn. They're pretty cheap and they offer unlimited bandwidth. http://libsyn.com

John — May 28, 08 5940

Scott,

Thanks for the videos!

Just regarding torrents - its dead easy. Get the Transmission client. Then create a torrent file of the videos you want to share using Transmission. Use a free public tracker (in the future you could even host your own tracker on theocacao.com).

Then just post the torrent file in the blog post and voila.

I've been downloading the video at 700KB/s on bittorrent, about 5 times faster than the webserver.

PS: it is great to see that the swarm is overwhelmingly Transmission users!

Jane — May 28, 08 5942

Ugh, transmission might be nice but the client has issues and lately is getting banned/unbanned/banned (repeat a few times) by a lot of trackers. I'd recommend getting latest rtorrent instead..I figure a cli client won't be too complicated for the people here? ;)

Seeded 32gb since I last commented, can't imagine what kind of demand there was for the videos earlier on..

But yes, a torrent for all the videos is something I'd be glad to seed on, please make torrents available!

Luis R. Rojas — Jun 02, 08 6005

Does anybody has a link to the torrents?

Glenn — Jun 04, 08 6015

When Edward Tufte's site got overloaded because of the interest in his review of the iPhone user interface, he switched to hosting his videos on vimeo.

http://www.vimeo.com/help/basics

FWIW.

Fraser Hess — Jun 06, 08 6031

Hello everyone, I have been working with Scott and we are very close to offering a torrent for The Best of Both Worlds in HD, that's the full size version, all 2.6GB. We also have a torrent for Scott's UI Design Essentials from April.

Before we offer them publicly, we are looking for a couple of folks to help seed the files. If you are interested in helping please email me at fraser at renewedheart dot org, and I'll send you the torrent files. We'll probably need no more than 3 or 4 more seeds. Once we have those seeds, I'll post another comment in this thread, with links to the torrent files.

Fraser Hess — Jun 26, 08 6088

Torrents for:
The Best of Both Worlds HD - http://tracker.renewedheart.org/CocoaHeads-2008-05-15-Feature.m4v.torrent

UI Design Essentials - http://tracker.renewedheart.org/ScottStevensonUIDesignEssentials.mov.torrent

Joseph Crawford — Sep 11, 08 6378

Not that it will help as much as the 100mbit lines but i have FIOS 20/20 and would be willing to seed to help. Generally I can seed at 2-2.4 MB/s

Scott Stevenson — Sep 11, 08 6381 Scotty the Leopard

@Joseph Crawford: Not that it will help as much as the 100mbit lines but i have FIOS 20/20 and would be willing to seed to help. Generally I can seed at 2-2.4 MB/s

That's always appreciated. I haven't orchestrated any of the actual seeding, but I assume you have what you need? Thanks again.
Design Element

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