to put those movies up, I check out the website and ftp myself into the directory.
Okay. What the hell did I do? I know I had a bunch of movie snippets in there last year. The index pages are gone and the movies are nowhere to be found. What. Did. I. Do?
I must have not been happy with the way things were working out, so I leveled the place. Nice. I guess I'll have to start from scratch.
Yesterday afternoon, I went through the files on my computer and it looked like I hadn't downloaded one of the videos to my computer. No idea why I hadn't done that, but I sure didn't see it. Find the disk, start to download it and notice that the computer is running hot. I unplug everything, open up the case and clean the solid sheet of lint/dust/dirt off of the CPU fan. I thought about taking it out and using a toothbrush and the compressor to get the sheet off, but I'm just not in the mood. I found a tweezers and start peeling the sheet off, little by little, using the canned air to blow it out as I worked. Got everything connected back up and started the computer. Checked the heat. It was a good 25° cooler. Still warmer than I think it should be, but a lot better.
Now, to download the disk. My video program crashes. I restart it. Crash. I try Windows Media Player. Won't start. Reboot. The computer tells me it crashed, should it restart Windows normally? Yeah, go ahead. I still can't run the program. I check the "more" about the crash and it's a stackhash problem. Videocard. Probably the drivers. I go over to the AMD website and download the software that checks the driver I need. I've already got the Catalyst program, but that's not helping right now, so I download the whole darn thing all over again. I ran it and my videocard driver was properly updated and I haven't had the crash since. Good.
(Why can't things just run smoothly?)
And I begin the downloads again, the program works as it should. I'd made new folders up for the disks, figured I'd start from the beginning. I deleted all the ones that I'd done last year and started to download again. And I had problems. I didn't feel like fighting with it, so I restored all of those videos from the recycle bin and moved them to the new folders and deleted the video with different extensions that I didn't want (like avi, swf - it seems I tried different formats to find the best quality last year and this time I settled on QuickTime since it's pretty standard). And I also found the video from 2012, the folder it was in was mismarked. Great, I'm good to go!
Since some of the movies are an hour and a half to over two hours long, I need to figure out a way to split them up. Unfortunately, doing chapters like on the actual disks isn't an option.
I do know how I'll show them, I'll probably use Pretty Photo (unless I find something else).
I've got my work cut out for me, but I love a challenge.
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