Enormous thanks to ravnwolf - oh, and our downloads moved =)

[rhester]

All,

Please join me in giving enormous thanks to ravnwolf for his extremely generous offer to host our public downloads. He has provided us with more than enough space, bandwidth, support, and encouragement for us to continue well into the forseeable future.

As such, you may have noticed that the public downloads now redirect externally to his site. This is accomplished in the following manner:

• Files are FTPed to handbrake.dynalias.com into the release directory
  Once every 60 seconds (previously read: 10 minutes), they are rsynced from the FTP server to the web server
  If any file changes are detected, they are automatically mirrored to the external hosting site

The upshot of all this is that if you wish to publish a new build (either beta or release), it will take about a minute after your FTP finishes to show up here (if beta) plus an additional 2-3 minutes to mirror to the external site (if release). That means a full-scale release will take about 5 minutes (per platform) from the time it is first FTP transferred to the local site until it is available to the general public.

The mirroring is 1:1, so please be sure to clean up after yourself - let's not leave 10 years of public releases in the release folder, for instance. If you delete it from the FTP, it will be trickle-down deleted from my site and the mirror automatically, so all that is needed here is some good housekeeping. =)

Thanks again ravnwolf!

Rodney

[mirkwood]

On the public download page (http://handbrake.dynalias.com/blog/?page_id=8 ) the Linux download link leads to the OSX download. Should be an easy fix.

[dynaflash]

All,

Please join me in giving enormous thanks to ravnwolf for his extremely generous offer to host our public downloads. He has provided us with more than enough space, bandwidth, support, and encouragement for us

I should say that IS extremely generous! If that digg deal was any indication, we will definitely need what he has so generously donated to us!

May be one of the biggest contributions to keep the project going!

Thanks ravnwolf and hopefully we will see you on our forums!!

[rhester]

Changed collection script to reduce latency from 10 minutes to 1 and reduced chatter to external site so we now connect only if there are legitimate changes to mirror.

Rodney

[rhester]

On the public download page (http://handbrake.dynalias.com/blog/?page_id=8 ) the Linux download link leads to the OSX download. Should be an easy fix.

D'oh! Fixed. =)

Rodney

[rhester]

contrib directory now on the external mirror as well. This should greatly improve speed of compiles (as far as the downloads are concerned).

Rodney

[benlake]

Danke to z ravnwolf!

[jbrjake]

contrib directory now on the external mirror as well. This should greatly improve speed of compiles (as far as the downloads are concerned).

Did this inadvertently break something? I just downloaded rev 100 and jamming fails.

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Wget contrib/a52dec.tar.gz 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   254  100   254    0     0     95      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:--     0
LibA52 contrib/lib/liba52.a 

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

    cd `dirname contrib/a52dec.tar.gz` && CONTRIB=`pwd` &&
    rm -rf a52dec && tar xzf a52dec.tar.gz && cd a52dec &&
    ./configure --prefix=$CONTRIB && make && make install &&
    strip -S $CONTRIB/lib/liba52.a

...failed LibA52 contrib/lib/liba52.a ...

All contribs are like that...it's like it's not really downloading the files, just naming an empty file a52dec.tar.gz.

[rhester]

contrib directory now on the external mirror as well. This should greatly improve speed of compiles (as far as the downloads are concerned).

Did this inadvertently break something? I just downloaded rev 100 and jamming fails.

Taking a look.

Rodney

[rhester]

Works fine here - looks like your version of wget doesn't support redirection.

What's the output from "wget -V" on your machine?

Rodney

[jbrjake]

Works fine here - looks like your version of wget doesn't support redirection.

What's the output from "wget -V" on your machine?

It's a mac, so curl not wget:

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curl 7.13.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) libcurl/7.13.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3
Protocols: ftp gopher telnet dict ldap http file https ftps 
Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz 

[jbrjake]

Solution: we need to edit contrib/jamfile from this:

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if $(OS) = MACOSX
{
    WGET = curl -o ;
}

to this

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if $(OS) = MACOSX
{
    WGET = curl -L -o ;
}

-L has to go before -o or it spits the redirect to the terminal. If you want I'll commit that after I'm done reading MacWorld reports.

[rhester]

If you want I'll commit that after I'm done reading MacWorld reports.

That would be useful, thanks!

Rodney

[benlake]

I have wget on my Mac and it decided to use it over curl.

[ravnwolf]

Just happy to help guys. I love handbrake and am happy someone is working to make it even better.

Keep up the good work!

-Ravnwolf