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My lockdown project has been organizing these episodes. The full resolution versions are in an annoying format (interlaced MPEG-2), there's a bunch of duplicate

My lockdown project has been organizing these episodes. The full resolution versions are in an annoying format (interlaced MPEG-2), there's a bunch of duplicates caused by some of the recordings being from repeated episodes, and many of them are incorrectly tagged. I'm actually pretty much finished now, I just need to re-upload the new versions back to the archive.

betamaxthetape 6y ago
Wow, that's an amazing effort! What a generous thing to devote your time to - I'll look forward to the results. I'm not sure how you're planning to upload them back to the archive, but be aware that the command line tools[1] sometimes have issues with uploading larger files. I've found that the command-line tools are more reliable (supporting more retries by default) than the direct Python API. Also, by default, archive.org will "derive" the uploaded video into a variety of different formats (this is normally a good thing, but I'm mentioning it since you might have already re-encoded them yourself and may want to avoid the system from "messing" with them). You can turn off derivation with a command line flag "--no-derive" to the "ia upload" tool (or a "queue_derive=False" parameter to internetarchive.upload() if using the Python API). (source: I'm currently uploading thousands of local government videos, many of them 3+ hours long, to archive.org. With this many videos, I have scripts checking the hashes of uploaded videos to make sure the process worked before deleting any source files on my machine.) [1] https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/ https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/
- LeoPanthera 6y ago
  My current plan is to upload each season as a single item, rather than individual episodes.
IntelMiner 6y ago
Would you be able to create a torrent magnet link? I'd love to get a copy for myself

betamaxthetape 6y ago

Wow, that's an amazing effort! What a generous thing to devote your time to - I'll look forward to the results. I'm not sure how you're planning to upload them back to the archive, but be aware that the command line tools[1] sometimes have issues with uploading larger files. I've found that the command-line tools are more reliable (supporting more retries by default) than the direct Python API. Also, by default, archive.org will "derive" the uploaded video into a variety of different formats (this is normally a good thing, but I'm mentioning it since you might have already re-encoded them yourself and may want to avoid the system from "messing" with them). You can turn off derivation with a command line flag "--no-derive" to the "ia upload" tool (or a "queue_derive=False" parameter to internetarchive.upload() if using the Python API). (source: I'm currently uploading thousands of local government videos, many of them 3+ hours long, to archive.org. With this many videos, I have scripts checking the hashes of uploaded videos to make sure the process worked before deleting any source files on my machine.) [1] https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/ https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/

LeoPanthera 6y ago
My current plan is to upload each season as a single item, rather than individual episodes.

IntelMiner 6y ago

Would you be able to create a torrent magnet link? I'd love to get a copy for myself