2010 Illinois at Michigan torrent...38Mbit!
A great game deserves something equally special...A 38Mbit copy of the master broadcast!
You can find it here - http://bigtentracker.com/torrents.php?id=184
58GB. You read that correctly.
To put this in perspective, Comcast sets the QAM channel for your HD @ 16Mbit for most games: you're getting double the detail (per frame) with this. You can tell pretty easily after watching it a few seconds.
I'll have a much smaller 720p encode like usual by Tuesday Noon EST.
Enjoy, and Go Blue. Always
November 7th, 2010 at 8:26 PM ^
You're going to need a bigger server if you keep uploading files like this!
November 7th, 2010 at 8:31 PM ^
That's half my hard drive right there
November 7th, 2010 at 8:35 PM ^
Great excuse to purchase bigger hard drive - and/or new computer.
I meant reason to get bigger hard drive, etc...
November 7th, 2010 at 8:53 PM ^
1TB external just got put on my Christmas list for this sole purpose.
November 7th, 2010 at 9:09 PM ^
If you try to watch something this large off an external hard drive it's going to be really choppy. You could certainly use it to free up some space on your hard drive, but if you're tech savvy at all you'd be better off either getting a new hard drive or adding an additional hard drive.
November 7th, 2010 at 9:17 PM ^
I have plenty of space on my laptop for one at a time without issue, but there's no way I'd store them all on there permanently. I'm living without a desktop for the time being, so I don't really have a choice.
But yeah, it got tripped up occasionally when I downloaded the 1.5 gig test video that was posted last week, and I'm running on pretty new hardware (2.4GHz i5, 4 gigs RAM). No way would I ever try to watch it over USB.
November 7th, 2010 at 10:45 PM ^
I think it should ok over USB. 38Mb/s is around 4.75 MB/s. USB should be able to sustain that speed as long as you don't have too many other devices on the bus. eSATA would be ideal though.
November 7th, 2010 at 11:05 PM ^
Yep, I had no problem playing over usb from an external hd onto my tv through patriot box office. There was so much detail in the picture, almost too much. The contrast of the maize color was litterally popping. My plasma is only 720p, so I'm not able to take full advantage of the file.
November 8th, 2010 at 9:49 AM ^
If you have a desktop just drop a 2GB Green 2nd drive in - then of course you'll have to back that up to be safe :) This stuff is too good to pass up, and drives are cheap these days.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:32 PM ^
That's really impressive - thanks for putting it up. For this game I am going for it.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:36 PM ^
my old laptop had a 40gb hard drive..
November 7th, 2010 at 9:19 PM ^
..So I'll ask here. Is there any youtube video or anything to preview how it looks? I'm interested, but I want to see if it's worth it.
November 7th, 2010 at 9:26 PM ^
If you don't know what this is you probably don't need it. That said, here is a 1GB sample (it's the first TD drive from the PSU game):
November 7th, 2010 at 9:58 PM ^
Thanks, just downloaded it. What software do I need to be able to run it?
November 7th, 2010 at 10:02 PM ^
VLC media player. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
It'll play just about anything.
November 7th, 2010 at 10:05 PM ^
Best options are either VLC or MPC-HC. I know from experience that windows media player for Win7 appears to work.
November 8th, 2010 at 9:47 AM ^
this sample is astoundingly good - can't wait for the 56GB monster
November 7th, 2010 at 10:02 PM ^
How do I select to download with something other than Limewire, especially since Limewire is down...
November 7th, 2010 at 10:30 PM ^
Just download and install uTorrent then when you download the torrent file and open it the file should automatically start downloading in uTorrent.
November 7th, 2010 at 10:30 PM ^
If you're downloading via torrent all you're going to get from the site is a small torrent file. You could open that in any application you want. Not sure what you mean by Limewire being down, but there are a bunch of other torrent apps that work well. I use utorrent.
November 7th, 2010 at 11:58 PM ^
To be clear, this is a 38Mb MPEG-2 encode. An MPEG-4 encode at the same picture quality would be smaller. Efficiency of codec and what not.
November 8th, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
just finished our first few downloaders, we've got a healthy stream going with more than enough bandwidth.
If you have Comcast, you should be able to download it in less than 18 hours.
November 8th, 2010 at 8:39 PM ^
I've got the whole thing and am seeding - uploading around 30kB/s. Took me around 20 hours on Cablevision. Rather awesome picture. For some reason not yet determined it looks better for me WMP than either VLC or MPC. Just a little sharper. Have to look into the settings/versions I am using.
Overall really cool...thanks.
EDIT: MPC was full screening it which appears to be the difference.