noah on 4/2/2005 at 15:45
Hmmm...I've haven't been able to connect to this torrent for a few days now...anyone else have any luck?
Komag on 4/2/2005 at 16:37
I couldn't get it either. I got the first one just fine, and then I left it up forevre to help seed it but it NEVER was uploading anything, so I finally turned it off.
saatana on 4/2/2005 at 21:27
Dunno if anyone cares but my T2 speedrun has now 13 levels done in 58:03 (still on hard). I've been busy with school and stuff so progress has been a bit slow lately.
Gonna start recording Masks soon and then on to planning how should I do that monstrous soulforge...
enter on 5/2/2005 at 01:47
Are you kidding me? You can't use ? as a filename in Windows and therefore noone can download from/use your torrent. Or maybe with the OS that you're running. Anyway someone get the best thief speedruns recorded, I'd love to see them.
noah on 9/2/2005 at 15:27
Did anyone ever manage to get the latest video?
ejsmith on 9/2/2005 at 18:06
Quote Posted by enter
You can't use ? as a filename in Windows and therefore noone can download from/use your torrent.
HOLY CRIKEY!
I'd completely forgot. I'll get that fixed. I had it named 1a.avi, and I was renaming it in terminal, and it just kind of exploded from there. I guess I'll put up all the ones I have right now.
If it's not one thing, it's some else.
ejsmith on 29/9/2005 at 22:28
Regardless of the dark necromatic arts, I managed to knock a bit of this one out, so I thought I'd bump this thread.
Quote:
A 100% loot run through Thief: The Dark Project -- Gold.
Screenshots and "samples" are available. The screenshots are taken from "Baffords", and the samples are taken from "Assassins". Both are representative of the video quality, although the screenshots are lightly compressed (.JPG) from their native video. The samples are 20-30 seconds in length, and should help you choose which quality you prefer. Definately download the samples, first.
High Quality (HQ):
Video: Xvid, 800x600, 30fps, 1500kbps, GMC-enabled, custom quanitizer (HVS-Best!!)
Audio: Vorbis, quality-based q5.12 (less than 90kbps average), 22khz
Wrapper: Ogg (.OGM)
Very sharp video, text is very clear, and audio is excellent. It takes a lot of processing power to run this video at 30fps. A 2ghz AMD64 or 3ghz Pentium4 will be needed, depending on your operating system and player. You can always transcode it to something else, like uncompressed-RGB or Forward Uncompressed, to reduce the processing requirements by increasing the disk read-speed requirements. Requires a player that can handle Ogg media, such as Kaffeine/Xine with Linux, or BSPlayer with Windows.
Medium Quality (MQ):
Video: Divx, 640x480, 30fps, 750kbps, multiple consecutive B-frames, H263 quanitizer
Audio: MP3, 128kbps CBR, 22khz
Wrapper: Microsoft Audio-Visual Interleave (.AVI)
Text is legible, video is reasonably detailed, and audio is very decent. The best compromise between quality, size, and processing requirements. Should work on any Divx-5 player, as I have tested several kinds of players and they both fast-forward and reverse fine.
Low Quality (LQ):
Video: Divx, 320x240, 30fps, 325kbps, single consecutive B-frames, H263 quanitizer
Audio: MP3, 64kbps CBR, 22khz
Wrapper: Microsoft Audio-Visual Interleave (.AVI)
Really blurry. Not much more than a walkthrough. The sound is right on the border of artifacts and distortion during some parts of the game. Also Divx-5 compliant.
[edit: I'm waiting in queue at Archive, but I put up (
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/66869) Training at Ourmedia. Quite a bit faster.]
noah on 30/9/2005 at 14:27
You sir, are my new hero! This has totally made my day. Thanks kindly for doing this!
ejsmith on 30/9/2005 at 16:07
(
http://www.archive.org/details/thief1_gold) Here's the Archive one for Thief 1.
There IS a low-quality version, but I was uploading and pulled a "disk full" on me. I didn't have all the medium-quality uploaded, so I deleted the low-quality to make room for the MQ stuff. The LQ is only good for people on dial-up, so I might upload it seperately in the future.
Don't forget that you can use an FTP client to queue up your downloads, too. Archive made a
bit of a mess out of the folder, but it's all available by FTP, (
ftp://ia300112.us.archive.org/0/items/thief1_gold) here. They're the ones that made all the shoddy gif's and thumbs folders, but they're hosting it, so no worries.
A spoonful. Of sugar helps the medicine go down.
