I have some HD samples I am wanting to host as soon as the limit gets bumped up to see how they do!
Cant wait to see how files/streaming does…Netflix may need to raise their prices soon…again…
Darn. After updating the maidsafe demo app, I can’t access to the grizmoblust public id. So I had to create a new one.
Hmm, it seems like it’s taking awhile to load. I’ll have to cut up some code, and see how it improves. Here it is.
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Just uploaded the MaidSafe website onto the test network!
Bye bye clearnet and hello: http://maidsafe.safenet/
WOO! 
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@Scott Thank you, that is excellent.
FYI, the video took just under 60 seconds to start, on my consumer ADSL connection.
I’m not complaining, but I assume that my browser (Firefox) is downloading the whole file before running it.
I note that in the demo of IPFS IPFS Alpha Demo - YouTube
the sample video starts almost instantaneously. The surprise of that presenter, if authentic, suggests that it wasn’t cached locally beforehand, but was a virgin download, which suggests that that video download was fetching the beginning of the file and playing it while the rest of the video was downloading. Or maybe he was just on a very fast connection.
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Streaming would be awesome. Along the lines of IPFS: What if we could pay for more copies of a file to exist on the network to get chunks from and not just rely on the network’s caching? Say I’m a producer and I just released an indi-movie and I want the file to be instantly available like IPFS seems to be?
Also, streaming would imply telephony (SAFEphone).
how about a short movie living inside our safe network 
you even can skip parts and jump forward/backwards without any problems Oo
http://elephant.nadir.safenet/
ps: just to point out the obvious 35.6MB … it might take some moments to load at the beginning but then it’s incredible fast oO (at least here with my internet connection)
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aaaaaaaand
http://bigbuckbunny.nadir.safenet/
a more kid-friendly movie (and one i think i actually do understand Oo) (51MB)
EDIT: … oh … there is a time difference between audio and video in the file … it is exactly like this when i start the file on my pc … so … don’t blame the safenet … probably should have checked it before uploading …
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how are you guys uploading 50mb files to the network?..I was under the impression the single file limit was 5mb?..or is it just a link to a video hosted outside of the network?..
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it is 
i downloaded the source code of the demo-app, looked where in the code the limit was implemented and increased it a little bit before compiling it and running it afterwards
… maidsafe will have had their reasons to limit the size to 5MB … but i thought 50 won’t hurt too much in terms of disk space on the testnet … and i wanted to check if larger files work / how well streaming might work
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cheat codes!? how dare you! lol! 
I will have to check it out. 
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i love open source 
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hmhmmm - maybe restart the launcher / restart firefox? … don’t know why Oo … shouldn’t take 2-3 minutes for not succeeding …
…tried it just now again - i had 2 failed attempts (strange - with the better internet connection before it worked nearly every time) and after 1 minute or so
ps: just restartet firefox to get a correct time: ~22 seconds this time to start the video + worked on first attempt
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http://thewelcomeparty.tonda.safenet/ Just been there & I like it . It’s all MAID up : Keep going ! 
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I tried just now (24 minutes after the original attempt) and the movie started after 10 seconds.
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it’s amazing isn’t it??!?! 
seeing this movie and how fast you can jump through the timeline makes me feel like nothing could go wrong =)
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OK, I just now emptied my browser cache and viewed riddim’s movie again, and it started straight away! So streaming is working now on SAFE: Is that a new feature? Previously I had had to wait for video files to come down from the network.
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i don’t think they changed anything @bluebird Oo … there is a short adult video online for some time now … i just grabbed that implementation and changed the content xD …
Hmm, I emptied Firefox’s cache, and i don’t know how the file would be cached elsewhere.