First Episode of NerdTV Released

kurosawdust writes "The first ever episode of Robert Cringely's long-awaited NerdTV is now available for download. This episode features Andy Hertzfeld, member of the original Macintosh team who always has a few good stories to tell. Episode 1 is available in MP4 Video (whole episode and smaller-sized snippets) MP3, Ogg, AAC, and good old-fashioned text transcript (for those of you who watch your TV in vi, like God intended). NerdTV is released under the Creative Commons license."

He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[ReformedExCon]

One of his quotes is that he would feel very uneasy riding in an airplane where WindowsCE was controlling the cabin pressure. I realize that he is a diehard anti-Microsoft person, as his long history with Apple and recent history with Open Source suggests, but I wonder if he is taking his gut feeling about the company and judging the technical worth of its products sight unseen.

I'm no fan of WindowsCE. I think that it has a lot of warts, though these have been smoothed over in recent releases as Microsoft seems to be moving away from "it's just like Windows!" and more towards a real embedded OS. But it's still pretty slow in scheduling ISRs and requires a fair bit of fiddling to get power management working correctly in the drivers. But all-in-all it isn't a bad system. It's not prone to crashes any more than any other embedded system is, and it's much more resistant to crashes than desktop Windows is.

For something as straightforward as cabin pressure and lights in an airplane, something like WindowsCE is actually pretty easy to implement and use. I, for one, wouldn't worry a bit about it running such systems.

Astroturfer for hire

[ReformedExCon]

Well, heh. I didn't think I was coming off so enthusiastically for WindowsCE. Looks like I'm somehow intimately involved in the product or something.

Anyway, my point that I was (badly) trying to make was that blind allegiance or blind hatred should not be your guiding motivation for accepting or dismissing a technology out of hand.

Linux, CE, VxWorks, they are all great and work wonderfully. It's just as scary to fly with a VxWorks-controlled cabin pressure system as it is with a CE-controlled system. Wh

I would LOVE it if Bill G and Balls-mer took off

[crovira]

in a plane controlled by Windows.

I wouldn't have to worry about them, ever again...

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[gowen]

It's not prone to crashes any more than any other embedded system is

That's just crap. It's about as stable as many other multi-purpose, palm-top OS... but none of those are good enough either.

If something's keeping me alive, I want something with extremely high-reliability, near hard realtime performance, coded in a language that's as errorproof as possible in language design (Ada, perhaps) and preferably that's been proven bugfree.

Windows CE is "good enough" for many many tasks. Life critical tasks are not among them.

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[ReformedExCon]

Do you have proof of this? Do you have examples of devices running Windows CE 4.x+ (I believe that the Pocket PC still runs v3.0, but I may not be up to date on this) that have stability problems?

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[Cyberax]

WinCE is not a hard realtime system. That's quite enough to exclude it from lots of mission-critical applications.

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[golgotha007]

Most of the people hitting this comment area is really just trying to find a useable torrent.

TORRENT IS HERE!!!! [nerdtv.net]

p.s. sorry to piggyback
p.s.s. please don't mod this up

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[SamSeaborn]

he would feel very uneasy riding in an airplane where WindowsCE was controlling the cabin pressure. [...] I wonder if he is taking his gut feeling about the company and judging the technical worth of its products sight unseen.

A used car salesman has sold you problematic cars for the past 20 years, and he says he finally has a good car to sell you. Are you going to examine the car for "technical worth" or are you going to let your previous experiences with that salesman influence your buying decision?

Sam

Power Management vs. Cabin Pressure

[itomato]

If a device requires a "fair bit of fiddling" to do what it is supposed to do, it is not the device I want in control of life-sustaining services on a flying coffin.

Jesus or any of Vishnu's other avatars can save you from a lot. But WinCE on a JumboJet?!

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[Anonymous Coward]

The software used to control anything in aeroplanes is written to the Common Criteria standard. It is mathematically proven to do only what it is asked, when it is asked to do it. No off-the-shelf OS, be it Windows or *nix based, could ever be certified to do that.

Ever try the air at FL360?

[Hasai]

"....It's not prone to crashes any more than any other embedded system is...."

I take it that you've never worked on aerospace or military systems, correct? If you had, you'd have choked before making a statement like that.

And, speaking of choking, ever been in an aircraft that just dumped cabin pressure at 36,000 feet?

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[metamatic]

--

Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.

Why do I need saving from your past?

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[Lagged2Death]

Microsoft's habit of not letting anyone see all of their source code means that any system built on a Microsoft OS cannot undergo a real safety audit. MS systems are inherently unsuited to avionics and the like for this reason, their quality or capabilities aside.

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[fbg111]

For something as straightforward as cabin pressure and lights in an airplane, something like WindowsCE is actually pretty easy to implement and use. I, for one, wouldn't worry a bit about it running such systems.

Risk should always be measured not only by probability of failure, but also by consequences of failure. So for something that has a low probability and low consequences, fine use Windows CE. Even for something with high probability and low consequences, like a PDA, use Windows CE. But for some

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[ReformedExCon]

It's not the best name Microsoft ever thought of, that's for sure.

Re:He seems to dislike WindowsCE

[bluekanoodle]

Oh yeah, well I bought a palm once and it locked up on me. I returned it and got a Pocketpc and it's worked perfectly ever since.

My anectodal comment cancels out your anectodal comment, so we both just wasted approximately 2 minutes of our lives on something that sums up to 0.

Java applet doesn't need a plugin?

[l_bratch]

Still in development but coming soon is a Mediaframe Open Source Java applet player, which will play NerdTV video right in your browser without any plug-ins.

Incredible how that works - I usually need to use a Java plugin to view Java applets in my browser.

Re:Java applet doesn't need a plugin?

[metamatic]

Incredible how that works - I usually need to use a Java plugin to view Java applets in my browser.

They're Mac guys, remember?

Java is part of the OS on the Mac. Safari doesn't need a plugin. It has native support for PDF too.

Re:Java applet doesn't need a plugin?

[metamatic]

Apple does not fit the legal definition of a monopoly.

maybe it will...

[FudRucker]

a 93.6 meg video file? it will be a miricle if it finishes downloading considering the parent web page was posted at /.

Try the .torrent

[Rhinobird]

Torrential goodness:

http://nerdtv.net/video/NTV001/ntv001.mp4.torrent [nerdtv.net]

Re:maybe it will...

[FudRucker]

it started out downloading at a good pace, as it continued it slowed to almost a crawl, i canceled it...

i will check back in a few days

No Torrent?

[Anonymous Coward]

I checked the site and couldn't find a .torrent file (at least in an obvious place). This surprised me greatly.

Nerds (geeks) + Creative Commons = Perfect Opportunity for a Torrent.

Is there a problem with mainstream adoption of .torrents? It would seem to me that bittorrent should be the FIRST option for distribution of this kind of content.

I had a similar experience downloading Ubuntu Linux. There was a torrent file available but I had to hunt (briefly) for it. Shouldn't these kind of projects capitalize on the cheap bandwidth for their free content?

Re:No Torrent?

[lga]

Bob mentioned bittorrent when he talked about NerdTV in July [pbs.org]. He explained that people downloading NerdTV via bittorrent would only seed the last one or two episodes, and that he would instead build a distributed network similar to Akamai.

From the article: "so the real heavy lifting for NerdTV will be done through a network of distributed servers I've created as a kind of "poor man's Akamai." My distribution cost using this system, by the way, works out to be approximately ONE PERCENT of Akamai's retail price, which shows how much profit there is in that business, or should be."

Tried to download it and must say

[Schlaefer]

you get what you paid for.

Re:No Torrent?

[whathappenedtomonday]

"poor man's Akamai."

...is giving me 6.7kbyte/s..no, 5.4...no...5.1 and falling.

people...would only seed the last one or two episodes

huh?! he could seed the missing files himself or only offer older episodes as direct download. nerds...

Re:No Torrent?

[lga]

Well I didn't say I agreed with his decision. Given the current download speed I think we will see a torrent for next weeks episode.

Re:No Torrent?

[ncc74656]

"poor man's Akamai."

...is giving me 6.7kbyte/s..no, 5.4...no...5.1 and falling.

With a download manager pulling in 4 chunks at once, I was getting around 17 kbps a few minutes ago. I switched to the torrent [nerdtv.net] someone else posted earlier. It's now maxing out my T1. :-)

Re:No Torrent?

[kwark]

Silly me was just thinking that a bunch of PBS owned seeds distributed over the net would lower their upload costs and speedup anyones download.

The current "solution" makes sure there are no seeders at all, ever. A brilliant solution for the possibility of no seeders for old stuff.

The net effect is that the average download is 5kb/s

Re:No Torrent?

[abonstu]

so why not just torrent up the most recent episodes then and move them to your pet 'distrobution network' once the peak demand has passed? i think even akamai would struggle with /. all pounding a large video file at once...

Re:No Torrent?

[opusman]

I guess that's why I'm getting 2.48kb/sec at the moment...

Re:No Torrent?

[nikconwell]

I'll create a torrent in 4 days, 6 hours, 24 minutes, 35 seconds.

Re:No Torrent?

[TheSHAD0W]

I'd make a torrent if I had a complete download... Or if someone out there has already downloaded it, I can teach 'em how to torrent it and will provide tracker service...

There is a torrent...

[Anonymous Coward]

Here [nerdtv.net] is the torrent... unfortunately there are no seeds at the moment though.
Found here [pbs.org], the link seems to be hidden by default.

Re:There is a torrent...

[TheSHAD0W]

Dunno why he didn't put up a seed. That's just silly.

I'm torrenting up the little bit I've already downloaded, and I see at least one other person has done the same. Would someone with a full download please help out?

Re:There is a torrent...

[Danathar]

If you are using Azureus.....can you post the magnet URI address (for trackerless torrent)?

Definition of Torrent:

[nhnfreespirit]

Torrent: The only known object on the www to actually benefit from a good slashdotting

Tried the sites dl. link and got about 5 kb/s. the torrent is maxing out my adsl a ~220 kb/s :-)

Re:Definition of Torrent:

[kwark]

Other than that most trackers and "The WWW" share the same communications protocol: HTTP

Not Found....

[phsdv]

The requested URL /bm/torrents/ntv001.mp4.torrent was not found on this server.

REAL nerdtv torrent coming

[brainsik]

The real torrents will be up soon. The one you found was a test torrent not intended for public consumption. I'll post when the real torrents are available. There will be 9 torrents, one for each of the files they are serving.

I don't know where you looked but it's right here.

[Rhinobird]

http://nerdtv.net/video/NTV001/ntv001.mp4.torrent [nerdtv.net]

I clicked on "watch the show" and was given 2 choices, just download the show, or use bit torrent.
You must be blind.

Below expectations

[NamShubCMX]

The interview is really interesting but I was somewhat disappointed by the "TV" part.

It could really well be NerdRadio, since there is absolutely nothing happening on the screen but that guy's lips moving.
For +1h.

Save your bandwidth and get the Ogg audio version.

Re:Below expectations

[hritcu]

You are right, the mp4 is three times larger then the ogg ... but downloading it using the torrent [netsonic.net] is five times faster. Really!

Re:Below expectations

[sinserve]

It could really well be NerdRadio, since there is absolutely nothing happening on the screen but that guy's lips moving.
For +1h.

Not true! At 00:34:02 - 00:34:18 he scratches his arm.

watch your TV in vi, like God intended

[smittyoneeach]

I feel your research into the topic of editor theology may be incomplete.

Re:watch your TV in vi, like God intended

[mattjb0010]

I feel your research into the topic of editor theology may be incomplete.

The answer is either here [400monkeys.com] or here [gnu.org].

Good for PBS!

[Ph33r th3 g(O)at]

For not requiring streaming of the show in a DRM format. It's exactly what taxpayer and donor subsidized entities should be doing. NPR, take note.

Re:Good for PBS!

[cmorgan47]

ironically, their frontline episodes are streamed.

Autobots

[Anonymous Coward]

Episode 1 is available in MP4 Video

Heh. I can only imagine what the MPAA's autobots are making out of that comment...

Re:Autobots

[Quarters]

The Autobots are the good guys. The MPAA would employ Decepticons.

Interactive TV

[martalli]

A little correction for the original poster. vi is interactive TV. If you just want to watch TV, I suggest less.

Bryan
"less is more, but less is better"

Re:Interactive TV

[circusboy]

I won't watch it 'til it's emacs compatible...

Coming from a BBS background...

[daviee]

I prefer ANSI art! And at this day and age I want subtitles to go with it!

IPTV on old school TV

[phildog]

I've been watching more and more IPTV stuff these days--Rocketboom, NerdTV, systm, homestarrunner, etc. Can anyone recommend a good dedicated piece of hardware for watching IPTV stuff on a real TV?

Bonus points if HDTV support is baked in.

But the biggest factor is it has to pass the "wife test". The UI should be simple and intuitive.

Does such a product exist? The Pinnacle Showcenter 200 and D-Link Wireless Media player sound close, but I worry about the usability factor.

From what I've heard XBMC is a great solution, but I want something I can actually buy online or in a store somewhere. I'm more into hacking software than hardware these days.

Thanks!

Meedio

[tacokill]

Well, I can't recommend a self contained unit because I have yet to find one that meets my needs. Nothing seems to play ALL the stuff I have and most importantly, many of the solutions out there are difficult to use or have significant limitations. I can, however, recommend a piece of software that can be "hacked" to make it whatever you want.

My network setup is simple. I have a server on my network that holds (4) categories of media. Pictures, movies (SVCD, DiVX, XViD, etc), TV shows (same as movies), and Music collection (mp3). I also play the occasional internet radio station. I wanted ONE box next to my TV that allows me to play all of the above through my home theatre, thus freeing me from burning DVD's to play on my Philips 642.

So anyway, I decided to use a standard computer with S-video out and digital audio out. Both video and audio go directly into my home theatre receiver. The HTPC computer is controlled by a $29 streamzap remote control. Now the trick to this whole deal is finding an interface that I can use with a remote (this is the wife test!). I don't want to use a mouse or keyboard at all. (sidenote: have you ever tried to use windows using nothing more than a remote? good luck.)

After, literally, 6 months of searching, I accidentally found this. [meedio.com] I am not associated with these guys in any way shape or form but I can say that their software is pretty slick. Basically, it's a Tivo-like frontend that you can customize A LOT. There are plug-ins to do all kinds of things, like weather and news. And best of all, it's designed for use with a remote so you don't need a mouse or keyboard at all. So after about 4 hours of customizing, I have it setup to do the following:

- everyday (at 4am), it goes out to my shared media folders and imports any new items in those folders into the Meedio library. Movies, TV shows, pictures, and music. Note: it only imports new items since the last import. And for movies, I have many movies that are (2) files. Meedio will combine the two files into one entry, which is nice.

- for movies, it goes out and auto-downloads cover art and IMDB info

- everyday, it downloads weather info (including animated radar)

- everyday, it downloads the Streamcast radio stations and organizes them by genre and bitrate

- While I don't have it setup, you can also install a TV module and make it a PVR. I have TiVo so I didn't need this functionality. But it's there if you want it.


The net result is that I have ALL of my stuff integrated into Meedio. So when I run Meedio, I can play ANY of my media on my network shares. And Meedio will use the codecs installed on the local machine so playback is not an issue. Since everything I want to play is inside the Meedio library (which updates everyday, per above), I haven't needed to burn a DVD or transfer a file since I installed it.

All in all, it's a pretty cool setup and I don't forsee needing to change it for quite sometime. I have yet to find a "glitch" with it except that some of the navigation within Meedio is counter-intuitive. But fixing that is as simple as editing an xml-based config file. And this shouldn't be a problem for anyone who is a power-user or better.

Re:IPTV on old school TV

[hoggoth]

> it has to pass the "wife test"

Interestingly, I have rejected some potential wives because they didn't pass the "gadget test".

Re:IPTV on old school TV

[hackstraw]

Can anyone recommend a good dedicated piece of hardware for watching IPTV stuff on a real TV?

Bonus points if HDTV support is baked in.

Recipe:

1 Apple PowerBook/mini or other product with DVI outputs
1 HDTV with DVI inputs
1 DVI cable

Optionally garnish with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

Enjoy!

NP if you've got a Mac...

[beetle496]

No problem, just get Toast 7!

From: Toast 7 Titanium (First Look) [macintouch.com] under Video:

Perhaps a bit more useful for most of us, though, is the ability to burn DivX to conventional DVD discs for playback on our existing set-top DVD players. Toast 7 makes it dead-simple to turn a downloaded DivX movie into a DVD you can carry into your living room, kick back and watch.

Re:IPTV on old school TV

[Chuqmystr]

Hmmm, well, brand new and on sale for $69 I could no longer resist the Tivo. I was going the Myth route at first but once I got a box dialed in well (used on of my linux development boxen (I SAID BOXEN YOU BASTARDS! :-P )) enough for my wife to agree to me building a permanent system the sticker shock kinda blew it for me.

The system I wanted to build was close to $800. The Tivo with life time subscription was still much less money and indeed, much less work. Now, how does this help you? Well, turns out th

I hate javascript

[Jessta]

Why do I need javascript enabled to download these links?
Quite annoying, elinks doesn't do javascript.
I'm sick of people using javascript for pointless reasons.

Re:I hate javascript

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's the direct links to the content:

Entire video [64.106.205.160]
MP3 Audio [64.106.205.160]

Re:I hate javascript

[kwark]

Stop! Don't use these links, by using them you will not get the benefits of the low cost, high speed dstrubuted network used to move this content.

Mirror?

[vsarunas]

Anyone have a mirror? I'm getting 4kB/sec...

Re:Mirror?

[jaredmauch]

Yes, folks should feel free to use this (fast host, and i've survivded slashdotting before, easily). Mirror of mp4: Nerd TV MP4 Episode 1 [nether.net]

Re:Mirror?

[baadger]

Cheers. 4.0 KBps from PBS was a joke.

Re:Mirror?

[euxle]

thx a lot
someone please donate him or pbs an akamai account. akamai is cheap these days...

Re:Mirror?

[jaredmauch]

Someone at PBS can email me (not like i'm hard to find) to set something like this up. If things get ugly, I can host it on more than one host, but the peak I saw (and it's well below that now) was ~10Mb/s. I can even stick it on a host I have in Asia so folks there can get it at higher speeds (due to tcp window*delay foo). I know last time in Tokyo i downloaded stuff at ~1MB/s in my hotel room from that machine. (I hate that we don't have that speed links here in the US.. sigh).

Ugh! Sloooow.

[Control42]

I let it download for alomst a minute, and it was still hardly at 10%. Probably too many nerds trying to get it.

Re:Ugh! Sloooow.

[MarkGriz]

"I let it download for alomst a minute, and it was still hardly at 10%. Probably too many nerds trying to get it."

Either that, or the Alpha Beta's are trashing the servers.

Bill the used car salesman

[SamSeaborn]

he would feel very uneasy riding in an airplane where WindowsCE was controlling the cabin pressure. [...] I wonder if he is taking his gut feeling about the company and judging the technical worth of its products sight unseen.

A used car salesman has sold you problematic cars for the past 20 years, and he says he finally has a good car to sell you. Are you going to examine the car for "technical worth" or are you going to let your previous experiences with that salesman influence your buying decision?

Sam

Re:Bill the used car salesman

[Skim123]

A used salesman posts duplicate messages to Slashdot [slashdot.org]. When you see his name are you really going to bother investigating the message or just 'assume' that it's another dup? (Of course, if there's any site where dups are the norm, it's /.)

Re:Bill the used car salesman

[SamSeaborn]

I hit the wrong reply link, then posted it again to get it in the right place. So sue me. Or better yet, ask slashdot for the ability to move the location of a post.

Sam

Where is the podcast?

[wscott]

I just was to subscribe to the audio portion of the show so I don't miss any future shows. How can this really be nerdy without a podcast?

Re:Where is the podcast?

[Stalin]

That would be "trendy" not "nerdy."

Re:Where is the podcast?

[LarsG]

The expression 'podcast' is trendy, but the functionality is nerdy.

TORRENT

[fabs64]

Here's [nerdtv.net] the official torrent.
No seeds as yet, hopefully the /. crowd will quickly change that ;-)

Re:TORRENT

[dpoolman]

The power of the community - getting over 80KiB/s now with 66 seeds. Thanks for the torrent link.

Re:TORRENT

[Ingenium13]

The torrent link is dead now. Why would they remove a link to a torrent file that is saving them bandwidth??

Re:TORRENT

[baadger]

Dijjer seems to work just as well as HTTP when there is no p2p connections and doesn't suffer from the lack of torrent.

http://dijjer.org/get/http://64.106.205.160/video/ NTV001/ntv001.mp4 [dijjer.org]

Re:Moderate parent up!

[baadger]

For Windows users get http://dijjer.org/dijjer.jar [dijjer.org]
instead of the exe installed, it's build 118 as opposed to build 117.

It's also cleaner to run and cleanup and you can see all the inner workings going on.

Re:TORRENT

[Danathar]

Can you post the Magnet URI? The tracker is down. With the URI at least we could attach via dht.

REAL torrents now avail

[brainsik]

We just put up the real torrents:

http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/ntv001.mp4.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/NTV001.m4a.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/ntvjuicy001.mp4.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/ntvnerdy001.mp4.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/NTV001.ogg.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NT [pbs.org]

God?

[Jules Labrie]

for those of you who watch your TV in vi, like God intended

Please don't blaspheme RMS !!!

EMACS

[rhetland]

I use *EMACS* to watch my TV, like god actually intended.

Torrent?

[LarsG]

Torrent, anyone? The server is so busy right now that Firefox just times out when trying to download.

folklore.org and Google

[mparaz]

Andy has more stores at folklore.org, previously covered here [slashdot.org]. He didn't say anything about joining Google [aol.com].

All Hail Charlie Rose

[ReadParse]

Let's not underrate Charlie Rose by saying that, just because this is an interview show, it's like Charlie Rose. Charlie is a fantastic interviewer, one of the very best on TV. Also the production is very good. Multiple cameras around that round table and you don't even notice it.

I agree with a previous poster about how this is barely worth the video -- the audio would be good enough.

I'm glad this exists, but I was looking forward to seeing Robert ask the questions. I haven't seen him do any video since

Re:All Hail Charlie Rose

[BigMooch]

I agree, but to say that this is Charlie Rose for nerds, isn't Charlie Rose already for nerds? Unless you are under 10 watching PBS pretty much makes you a nerd.

Mangled Andy

[mustafap]

I should have realised something was wrong when the download stopped at 20MB. It played ok for about 10 minutes, until Andy melts on camera.

http://www.drivesentinel.co.uk/mac.jpg [drivesentinel.co.uk]

Jeez, it was like watching a horror movie :o)

Dear Andy

[NubKnacker]

Dear Andy, Please let us know when you get sued by the **AA. Thanks.

mplayer said no :(

[hritcu]

donald@catalin:~$ mplayer /common/downloads/ntv001.mp4
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing /common/downloads/ntv001.mp4.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
Seek failed

Re:mplayer said no :(

[quenda]

Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll,

That version of mplayer works fine for me, and I dont have a file called 'avisynth.dll' anywhere. It also seems to work without any win32 DLLs. You must have a version compiled without Quicktime support. Did you compile your own? Try downloading a pre-built binary for your distro.

MAGNET TORRENT URI PLEASE!!!

[Danathar]

The tracker is down...somebody post the Magnet URI address so we can attach to the swarm decentralized!

I put up a torrent...

[MrPerfekt]

You can find it here: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3380389 [thepiratebay.org]

Interview impression.

[ezzzD55J]

What a likable nerd!

The interview is not so great. They're a bunch of uninspired questions with very little interactivity. The interviewer often doesn't seem to know how to respond to the replies he gets. (He just goes "Wow." and that's about it.)

But I really like Andy :-)

REAL OFFICIAL Torrents available

[brainsik]

We just put up the *real* torrents. The other nerdtv.net torrent file was never intended for public consumption.

Use these:

http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/ntv001.mp4.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/NTV001.m4a.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/ntvjuicy001.mp4.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/ntvnerdy001.mp4.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/NTV001.ogg.torrent [pbs.org]
http://www.pbs.org/hplink/redir/http://nerdtv.net/ video/NTV001/NTV001.mp3.torrent [pbs.org]

Re:REAL OFFICIAL Torrents available

[hritcu]

We just put up the *real* torrents.

Do you mean that the interview I watched last night was just a fake? How are those torrents better?

Re:REAL OFFICIAL Torrents available

[hritcu]

The "unofficial" torrents worked just fine for me.

Re:broken site: 'javascript:/'

[MrPerfekt]

Sadly, the site designer wants to pop up a new window and have me view the video in my web browser. They're so aggressive about that desire that they demand I break my proxy to allow them to script my system rather than just providing me a download link.

The link popup contains a link to download the video, Genius.

Re:EGp.

[WilliamSChips]

Wow, that looks like the kind of post that would have a goat.cx link...