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(also, lots of other Grass Roots artists too) Mark "DaBabe" Roth, Jason Espie, Nate Pelton, Joe Champion, Robert Chrismer, Bill Davis, Carol Knapp, Gary "MadTaper" Pudvan, Chris Cantwell, Doug Moog, Gene Martin, Doug Baker, Jamie Burks and Rand Knapp provided the video and audio collection seen on this website and ftp server. OK, so here's the deal. This is the FAQ and general info page about downloading DTB audio/video files from this site. Steps 1 and 2, below, tell you how to download. First, some general information for beginners. There are two ways to grab files from this site...FTP or through your web browser. Both methods have some advantages. If you already use and understand FTP, then we suggest that route, especially if your FTP program supports auto resume upon a broken download. If you get a message "too many users connected", wait and try again later. The idle time is set fairly low (5 minutes), so that everyone can have a chance to get in. Please note, the video files are huge, and you can expect 7-36 hours to download a typical one, depending on your bandwidth.  Each video file typically represents 1 to 2 hours of concert footage at VCD (mpeg1) or DVD (mpeg2/iso) quality. On the other hand, the audio files are typically shn's, and download fairly fast.
Step 1: To log into our audio/video servers (web and ftp), you need a user and password. To keep the system from being abused by outsiders, we request that you use the contact form and ask us for the user and password. You can email Carol, Mark or me (Rand) directly for it if you prefer. (It is also posted to the DTB list server frequently).
Step 2: To retrieve the files with FTP: the server is ftp.haveyouherd.com OR, Step 2:To retrieve the files with your web browser: use this website downloads.haveyouherd.com (read tip below) ========= Tip on downloading from the above downloads.haveyouherd.com website: Once you click through to a location (folder) that you want to download from, RIGHT click on the file you want and select "save target as". If you double click on a file by mistake, your computer may try to start streaming (playing) the file, and there is no way either you or we have that kind of bandwidth. It won't stream, these files are HUGE and are meant to be played AFTER you download them. How to play back the files that you download: mpeg/mpg: mpeg (video download) files can be viewed with Real Player (version 10 for sure, not sure about earlier versions). mpeg can also be viewed with Windows Media Player (WMP) version 10. (Version 9 will also work if it has an mpeg codec plugin). iso: If you download .iso files, they are meant to be used to burn a working DVD disk using your DVD burning software ("create disk from image file" option in Roxio, for example). The resulting disk is exactly the same as the original (with menus). {If you want to try to play back the iso file directly, WMP might work if you have the correct "codec" installed. (try typing "iso codec windows media player" (without the quotes) into Google to locate a codec to allow this. Try to get one from the Microsoft site to be sure you are getting something stable). Once you have a iso codec installed, WMP may still complain that the .iso files is not supported and ask if you want to play it anyway...and then it works, although the menus might be messed up.} More iso notes: There is a checksum file (iso.md5) included in the same directory as the iso file you download (it is very small, so just takes a second to download it). It is strongly recommended that you download it as well in order to verify the integrity of your iso file download. If you get a corrupted copy of an iso, and try to burn from it, the resulting disks are junk. So, please verify your iso downloads! (MKW is a free tool available at etree.org that will verify the iso.md5 files against the main iso you downloaded). Burning DVD's notes: After you burn a DVD from the iso, don't forget to look at the disk for other treats...there are several readme files, graphic files and another md5 file (dvd.md5) that can be used to verify that the burn was successful! The readme files explain all this in detail. WMP codec for mpeg files, notes: Only tested on WMP version 9. The codec is found at both the video download FTP and Web sites. (Test your version 9 WMP first...if it plays .mpeg files already, then you don't need to install any other mpeg codec!). If you do decide to install the .mpeg codec, then we are not responsible for anything bad that happens to your computer, or to you, or to the world in general. If in doubt, gain knowledge by asking the DTB list, and spending a little time on google researching the issue. We are not able to provide technical support on this codec, as it is not written by us (but is freely available on the internet). There have been a couple reports that sometimes mpeg files don't show up correctly when played in WMP ver.9. They seem too "skinny" (what is called a bad aspect ratio). On one computer this was fixed by updating the WMP. On another computer, that didn't help, but setting the graphic resolution of the PC to 800x600 during playback did fix it. If anyone has the official solution, let us know. Peace from Oregon, Rand and Carol. |
