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[feross]

Aiming to make two torrents:

• 480p (less than 50MB, for demos on slow networks)
• HD

Video should be CC license, or we should have permission to use it

[feross]

Right now Sintel is 130MB, CC licensed

[feross]

@mafintosh – got any suggestions for a better video to use? @watson said you guys were compiling a list of legal, cc-licensed videos to use for torrent demos.

[mafintosh]

I think we should find some conference talks / creative commons nature videos and combine them into a single torrent. @feross why are you aiming for small files?

[sashahilton00]

How about a TED Talk? CC licenced for non-profits I think: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy

[feross]

Right now, HTTP web seeding in WebTorrent is inefficient -- causes tons of small http requests (one for each torrent block) so I thought keeping the file small would minimize the CPU impact. See (webtorrent/webtorrent#67 (comment))

[mafintosh]

@sashahilton00 ohhh ted talks in combination with conf talks is a really cool idea

[mafintosh]

@feross would having a joint torrent with both small and large files be ok? then webtorrent could just download the small ones for now

[feross]

I like the idea of combining a bunch of creative commons clips -- gives an idea of the huge potential that this unlocks

[feross]

@mafintosh we could just make two version of the torrent. one in 480p and another HD

[mafintosh]

@feross sounds good. where should we collect the files to share? in this thread?

[mafintosh]

this is gonna be super useful for testing the stuff we are doing in dat as well.

[sashahilton00]

Dropbox it?

[feross]

Sure, let's post links in this thread for now.

[watson]

As far as I can tell Vodo is a community of free-to-share films

[watson]

There is also this (far from complete) list on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_film#List_of_open-source_films

[feross]

There's also https://archive.org/details/bittorrent

[feross]

Maybe some of the clips we can include are some of our p2p mad science talks? That might make for a really cool test video that we can all use across our various p2p projects :)

[feross]

Some more ideas:

• Charlie Chaplin's "Police" (Charlie Chaplin's 49th film released on May 27 1916.)
• Sintel (Short computer animated film by the Blender Institute.)
• Otherworlds (Six slices of original Sci-Fi.)
• Big buck bunny (A large and lovable rabbit deals with three tiny bullies.)
• Tears of steel (Short science fiction film is about a group of warriors and scientists.)
• Elephants dream (Two men wander around the innards of an infinite machine.)
• Sita sings the blues (The Indian tale of Ramayana is set to jazz music.)
• One mile away (Two warring gangs in UK, try to bring peace to their neighbourhoods.)

The are probably all safe to use, but we should confirm.

[feross]

https://librivox.org/ has lots of public domain audiobooks.

[feross]

Wired CC images: http://www.wired.com/2011/11/creative-commons/

The WIRED CD: https://creativecommons.org/wired/

[feross]

http://freemusicarchive.org/genre/Electronic/?sort=track_interest (via @dcposch)

[Edward-Stryfe]

Try checking out http://legittorrents.info/

[feross]

http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline