Friday, January 12, 2007

First video goes (almost) live!

DOWNLOAD HERE IF YOU CAN'T BE ARSED READING THE POST

As promised yesterday, I've put a video together of a typical poker session that my friend and myself take part in.

It comprises of two $38 sit and gos with my friend playing and both of us making comments on the games. Of course, this is out first attempt at this so don't expect any miracles.

You can download it here although be warned. When I tried to download it from the site I've put it on to test it was going at 20k a second. The file is about 160mb and the session lasts about 45 minutes. I've managed to maintain a pretty decent level of quality despite making compromises to make the file smaller.

If you do decide to download it I would be very grateful if you could leave comments about any issues you have with the video regarding compatibility, video quality and audio quality - it really will help me to make better videos in the future. Also, if you have any suggestions on how we, as commentators, can make the videos more enjoyable then feel free to leave comments about that too. But remember, this was a trial run and we're regular poker players just like you, not pros.

I could really do with some suggestions about where to host these videos too. I need a place where I place large files where downloaders can get pretty useful download rates. Obviously without paying I can't think of any. Thanks for any advice/help anyone can offer.

Hope you enjoy the video (if you can download it and it works), we already have another three recorder if this proves to be a success.

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