Araibira discontinuing youtube sumo broadcasts (or is he?)

[Yubinhaad 11,954]

Day 7 uploads will be delayed, unfortunately my connection died shortly before completing the first two clips so three hours just went down the drain. (Effectively six hours as they'll now be uploading at half speed during today's recording...)

Major thanks for your work with this!

The remaining Day 7 blocks are now complete. I don't normally leave in matta when I link them up, but for sheer court jester value I did for Oshio vs. Nakashima. (Laughing...)

[yorikiried by fate 2,038]

Frogger is alive!

[Asashosakari 20,220]

By the way, apologies in case of missing makuuchi bouts - with Kintamayama's summary videos and araibira's clips coming available I've chosen to concentrate on the other clips for now. I'll fill in what's missing at the end of the basho if nobody else has got to it by then.

The main issue is that with the bump in video bitrate, I'm essentially uploading at real-time speed now, i.e. 8 hours of video also take me 8 hours to upload, and double that when a new broadcast is already going, as mentioned above. More speed hopefully coming tomorrow if my telco sticks to their promised supply date...

Edited May 13, 2012 by Asashosakari

[Asashosakari 20,220]

The main issue is that with the bump in video bitrate, I'm essentially uploading at real-time speed now, i.e. 8 hours of video also take me 8 hours to upload, and double that when a new broadcast is already going, as mentioned above. More speed hopefully coming tomorrow if my telco sticks to their promised supply date...

More speed has turned into no speed, at least for now, as they've managed to turn off the old line just fine but not to turn on the new one. So, sorry, no Day 9 upload for now, and hopefully somebody else can step in with the Day 10 recording as, barring a late-night miracle, I'm not going to have internet at home tonight.

[Doitsuyama 1,259]

More speed has turned into no speed, at least for now, as they've managed to turn off the old line just fine but not to turn on the new one. So, sorry, no Day 9 upload for now, and hopefully somebody else can step in with the Day 10 recording as, barring a late-night miracle, I'm not going to have internet at home tonight.

I am uploading day 10 right now (limited bandwidth so it will last several hours I think). Limit is 15 minutes per video, so I cut it into pieces which actually isn't such a bad idea anyway as failed uploads of huge files can be a bit frustrating. A few bouts are indexed already, among them the must-see of Osunaarashi today.

[Doitsuyama 1,259]

That day 10 upload was my first recording until early makushita. Now I wanted to upload the rest, but saw that the second recording just stopped after the juryo dohyo-iri. Makuuchi is ok, so the last five makushita bouts and juryo are missing. If anybody else has that recorded, now would be a good time to jump in with an upload to youtube for the missing part. :-)

[Asashosakari 20,220]

Back in business with 80% more upload speed. Day 9 going up now.

[Asashosakari 20,220]

Hmm, Sumo Reference errors when trying to select editvideo=on for the Day 9 bouts...

[Asashosakari 20,220]

Early warning: I just had a two-hour disconnect here, so assistance will be required again... (Probably missing all of sandanme, possibly with a bit of jonidan and makushita as well.)

[Doitsuyama 1,259]

Hmm, Sumo Reference errors when trying to select editvideo=on for the Day 9 bouts...

Somebody managed to break my parser for the videos... to everyone, just look at valid entries, to you see how to enter the video links correctly. Meanwhile I made the parser more robust to accept only working entries.

Feel free to upload day 9, I will now upload the rest of day 11.

And sadly my recording for day 12 didn't work, so I can't help with the missing part, but I know there are more people out there recording, maybe they had success and can help out again?

[The_Arrow87 7]

I only want to point out that the video about high sandanme doesn't work after 21 minutes. Or is it just me? Only a few Makushita bouts are linked so it can't be just me?

Edited May 19, 2012 by The_Arrow87

[Doitsuyama 1,259]

Well forget my post. Keep on treating me like a ghost (every forum does that, and I don't know why). I was only trying to point out that the video about high sandanme doesn't work after 21 minutes. Or is it just me? Only a few Makushita bouts are linked so it can't be just me?

Hmm, maybe it's your avatar, it looks somewhat like a ghost... but really, I saw that myself while indexing the bouts in Sumo Reference and have been trying without success to get past that mark. The original recording wasn't accepted from youtube (it doesn't accept asf files from this stream, at least I don't have success with that, but I got a few thousand asf files uploaded from the old low quality stream between 2003 and 2004 - can anybody help here?), and I don't have a tool to split asf files with, so I'm first converting it to avi. But conversion to whichever format leads to that hangup after 21 minutes, seems like the recording is corrupt here. Right now I'm trying a last attempt, let's see if this is working.

[shumitto 418]

But conversion to whichever format leads to that hangup after 21 minutes, seems like the recording is corrupt here.

I am not exactly what one would call a computer-savvy person, so please pardon me should I say anything redundant. Can't you crop the video at 21 min. getting rid of the corrupt spot and then re-sync the second part again ? Or is it from 21 min. forwards broken ?

OT: thank you for your very good work.

[Doitsuyama 1,259]

But conversion to whichever format leads to that hangup after 21 minutes, seems like the recording is corrupt here.

I am not exactly what one would call a computer-savvy person, so please pardon me should I say anything redundant. Can't you crop the video at 21 min. getting rid of the corrupt spot and then re-sync the second part again ? Or is it from 21 min. forwards broken ?

OT: thank you for your very good work.

Maybe I don't understand you right, but I think "crop" basically is the same what I meant whit "split" above, I have no tool to work directly on asf files.

Edit: Oh, meanwhile I can report that the "last attempt" indeed was successful - not something I like to do more often, pretty cumbersome, but good to know that this one works too.

Edited May 19, 2012 by Doitsuyama

[shumitto 418]

With "crop" I meant the same of "split", though I overlooked the line you said "I don't have a tool to split asf files with". Just out of curiosity, which programm did you use ?

[yorikiried by fate 2,038]

I started a conversation with Doitsu yesterday, as I intended to start to upload and tag the old footage that kajiyama had recorded and published over at ST over a period of ca. two years. But since I'm running into technical problems and don't want to bother Doitsuyama exclusively, here's the public cry for help.

See, the files that I have are ASF, which - as I understand - is a "container" for WMV. Bear with me. All this viedo editing stuff kills me. If I use terminology inappropriately, be patient. Now, the files open with the wrong aspect ratio (AR).The metadata says its AR is 320:240, and this may well be the case as the vids sport black bars all around that have probably been added in some faulty conversion process. Now a viewer like VLC allows me to reset the AR (I use 16:9 but it seems very slightly off the mark). It's a mouseclick. Nanosecond. Unfortunately, uploading to youtube results - of course - in youtube FLVs with the wrong AR.

Now I am desperately looking for a simple way to just retag / reflag the AR info in the files so that any player but especially youtube knows what's the score. But Google was not my friend. There are innummerable people with so complex problems that my simple one is drowning in a sea of keywords. I found an old tool named WMVarchanger, but it doesn't work (for me).

Now, I own this piece of shit that's called Premiere Elements 7. This let's me reencode the vids. But that is timeconsuming and the target format tests where quite disencouraging. The stupid thing doesn't allow for just resetting the AR without reencoding. My best results were achieved with converting directly to FLV (which is also used by youtube), but it tends to triple the filesize with reencoding at a speed of 0.7 or something. I read that MOV file give good results, but this would mean that I have to install Quicktime on my system, which I am not prepared to do.

Anyway, I would strongly prefer to upload the original files, since youtube will meddle with them anyhow, FLV or not.

The biggest irony is that PE7 has a direct upload feature to youtube, but it restricts you to vidlengths of 10 mins, since that was the yt limit at the time this junk got coded. (I already freed my yt account to the max 12 hour limit).

Please, anybody?! I would like to say that I will take any help, but I can't as this might include "Why don't you get a Mac, it's soooo simple." So I will compromise: I will take almost any help!

[yorikiried by fate 2,038]

Progress: I just found out that you can actually make youtube correct the ratio somehow. I will try this out as soon as I have uploaded the original file.

[Doitsuyama 1,259]

Progress: I just found out that you can actually make youtube correct the ratio somehow. I will try this out as soon as I have uploaded the original file.

Right, I looked in the "Edit video" section of youtube yesterday which offers a lot of options, but nothing with aspect ratio. But it seems youtube does change the aspect ratio to 16:9 if you fill the tags field with yt:stretch=16:9

Hmm, maybe it works with 16:10 too, if I remember correctly this was the AR needed for these videos?

[yorikiried by fate 2,038]

Nope. I just tried 16:10 and it gets ignored. Anyway, 16:9 is close enough and this is how I'm going to do it. I have like 10 or 12 basho vids lying around, but each will take a day to upload and tag.

I'm still taking good answers to the ASF question, since this such a mindbogglingly simple problem in comparison to all the nuclear warhead size "solutions" out there.

[Asashosakari 20,220]

Now I am desperately looking for a simple way to just retag / reflag the AR info in the files so that any player but especially youtube knows what's the score. But Google was not my friend. There are innummerable people with so complex problems that my simple one is drowning in a sea of keywords. I found an old tool named WMVarchanger, but it doesn't work (for me).

Just tried WMVARChanger on one of my maezumo clips, and it works, sort of. WMP seems to ignore the tag that gets changed and continues to use the natural aspect ratio, but both VLC and Youtube's encoder use it. Might be different with one of kajiyama's files, of course, or perhaps there's a difference between how VLC (which I assume you used?) and WMRecorder (which I use) record ASF files.

[yorikiried by fate 2,038]

Oh right thanks. It's good to know, even if I let Youtube do the work for me now.

As a sidenote, I had a BSOD today while meddling with the vids. Exactly before a bout with Yamamotoyama. Maybe buffer overflow?

[Jakusotsu 6,385]

As a sidenote, I had a BSOD today while meddling with the vids. Exactly before a bout with Yamamotoyama. Maybe buffer overflow?

Sounds more like a heap allocation failure.

[Asashosakari 20,220]

We do know, if YMY went by, it's definitely not a buffet overflow.

[Doitsuyama 1,259]

While ybf is making very nice progress (makuuchi for Haru 2009 and Kyushu 2008 is complete, and Hatsu 2009 until day 9) I have good news from another front.

Koukai and his crew from the well-known site http://japan-sumo.ru uploaded their recordings of the Kyushu 2010 basho and I tagged the bouts in Sumo reference, so the previously barren basho (very few videos in youtube) is pretty much complete now in makuuchi and juryo with lots of makushita and a little bit sandanme. Hatsu 2011 also had very few videos and is in progress right now, juryo and lower until day 9 is done so far.

Just look at Myogiryu's bouts from Kyushu 2010 and you'll know why I was touting him as a sure makuuchi back then already. There is also footage of an izori from Satonofuji (who was 7-0 in jonidan last basho), cleaner in execution than the other two izori with videos (one of them also from Satonofuji).

[yorikiried by fate 2,038]

Quick update from my side. I can say now that uploading the Makuuchi action for a full basho takes about 10-12 hours, so realistically I will manage one basho per day. Tagging the buggers is another topic, even though I am pretty quick now and need ca. 20-30 minutes per basho day. Nevertheless, this drains concentration quicker than visiting relatives, so it's still quite an ambitious project. AND: the Euro is looming, so I might reset my preferences for the spare time that I have during June and July.

About the (still unwritten) video policy: I have thrown out quite a few older video links so far. This was based on Doitsuyama's wish to have only one video per bout (or two/treee etc. in case of rematches). The choice is straightforward in some cases, where the older vid was just bad quality. There were also some, though, which seemed to have slightly better quality than my vids. In these cases I decided against the old vids, because they didn't have replays. I will have to see what's with the later basho. I didn't try to get any overview of what's there already.

Here's the summary of what is potentially available in the Era of Kaji TV:

(Individual overviews of the basho will follow, along with further ideas and requests to the community.)

YBF Uploads Overview (mostly Makuuchi only)BashoUploadedTimetagsComments2008 Kyushu (Bow...) (Bow...)Issues on Days 2, 5 & 92009 Hatsu (Bow...) (Bow...)Issues on Days 1 & 22009 Haru (Bow...) (Bow...)Issues on Days 2, 9, 11 & 142009 Natsu (Bow...) (Bow...) Issues on Days 1, 2, 6, 7 & 92009 Nagoya (Bow...)Ds01&02[/td3]2009 Aki[/td]No NHK vids available2009 Kyushu (Bomb about to be blown...) Many bad copyright apples (9 out of 15 blocked)2010 Hatsu (Bomb about to be blown...) More blocking fun (10/15)2010 Haru (Bomb about to be blown...) So far the worst (12/15)2010 Natsu2010 Nagoya2010 Aki2010 Kyushu2011 Hatsu2011 HaruThe basho that was not to be2011 Natsu (TET)Need to recheck vid availability2011 Nagoya2011 Aki Edited July 23, 2012 by yorikiried by fate