Hello again
I asked a question earlier about rendering my own sheep in high definition, but I now realise this would take ages with just one computer. So I would like to know if there anyone who knows of, or is part of, a server or render farm producing high resolution sheep.
Thanks
Rendering HD Sheep
720p Electric Sheep
Re-seed?
How do we make electricsheep
Just putting those mpg into .electricsheep folder won't play.
Renaming them to .avi also doesn't work.
Playing files
Ohh… Looks like I will have
Looks like I will have to convert them…
If you convert them, I would
I made an script and
But unfortunately, electricsheep doesn't handle different resolutions sheep (it freezes the animation).
So you can't have the normal ones and the 720p or 1080p ones in the same folder.
When electricsheep starts with one resolution sheep, only the same resolution will play. When it tries to play another resolution, it will freeze.
Anyway, here's the script:
----BOF----
#!/bin/bash
numerovezes=$(ls *.mpg | wc -l)
for ((n=1; n<=numerovezes; n++)) do
nomedoarquivo=$(ls *.mpg | head -n$n | tail -n1| awk -F ".mpg" {'print$1'})
ffmpeg -y -i $nomedoarquivo.mpg -b 8M -bt 8M $nomedoarquivo.avi
done
----EOF----
It generated about 6mb files, with a slight quality decrease (a same quality
convert would create a 22mb file from a 7mb one)
Trouble Converting
This script is a Linux Shell
It will work only on *nixes
However, it usses ffmpeg, which I'm confident there is a windows version.
Basically, to convert with ffmpeg, you need to get it for windows, and on a command terminal, go to the videos directory, and type:
ffmpeg -y -i $origin_file.mpg -b 8M -bt 8M $destination_file.avi
The script I created was to automate doing for all files (one file at time)
Ahhh Thanks
You can have separated
Ex: 1 folder for 720p, another one for 1080p, and have electricsheep start with --save-dir to play the folders.
Using this, I've made another script, to randomly start on one of the dirs.
Electricsheep looks recursively on directories, so they can't be subdirectories of the electrichsheep main one, with the default sheeps.
---BOF---
#!/bin/bash
#Random Sheep Directory
number=$RANDOM
let "number %= 4"
#echo $number
if [ "$number" = 0 ]; then exec electricsheepb $@
fi
if [ "$number" = 1 ]; then exec electricsheepb --save-dir /home/marcelo/Bagulhos/Electricsheep/720p --standalone 1 $@
fi
if [ "$number" = 2 ]; then exec electricsheepb --save-dir /home/marcelo/Bagulhos/Electricsheep/1080p --standalone 1 $@
fi
if [ "$number" = 3 ]; then exec electricsheepb --save-dir /home/marcelo/Bagulhos/Electricsheep/1980x1200 --standalone 1 $@
fi
---EOF---
Separate the sheeps per resolution, adapt the script with your directories, rename the electricsheep binary in /usr/bin to "electricsheepb", and this script goes as "/usr/bin/electricshep"
It will start electricheep, and on random, will trigger the normal, 720p or any other sheep variated resolutions you have.
Thanks - Still around?
I'm still downloading and
By the way, I rendered an HD sheep.
With the help of this page:
http://electricsheep.wikispaces.com/Animating+Flames
I rendered a sheep in 1980x1200, and it's BEAUTIFUL!
It took me 12 hours just to render the frames, and the video has 80mb (mp4v lossless)
Maybe we could trade HD sheeps. (With all the credits to scott draves, as I got the genome from his server)
I'm looking forward of rendering more.
If anyone is trying and wants some help.
cool which did you do and how
I did 150 frames of this
http://v2d7c.sheepserver.net/cgi/dead.cgi?id=21216
Final Video file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/409780367/00001_00002_00002_00002.avi.html
I'm rendering 600 frames (for testing) of this one
http://v2d7c.sheepserver.net/cgi/node.cgi?id=21388
Looks like it's gonna take 70 hours.
My copy is still seeding,
I want to download these sheep, so badly
Wow, thanks for making these
Sheep
Awesome!
I'll download and keep this
I've got a gig down so far
You rock. Thanks,
I haven't had a torrent client running for many months, but I'll try to keep mine running. (and will try to buy a tshirt, too, so Spot gets his cut.)
uh, oh.... the TShirts have
At least the sheep live on.... :-) Electric sheep are so f$#%ing beautiful, that they have to eventually get big, though whoever wants to make that happen will have to put a lot of effort into it. Monetizing it, on the other hand, seems hard.
High Resolution
Yes, could you please? That
I'd love to see some of those
We do take part in rendering them, we just dont get to see them
If you have "save rendered frames" enabled, you might notice that a few of the images that you have rendered are in HD. I have about 10 HD images that I have rendered so far... so it appears we sheeple do take part in rendering them, we just don't get to see them. It sure would be nice to see these HD sheep go free to the public, or at the very least with the time we have left, a respectable monthly donation before peak oil and the economic / technological singularity blasts us into the stone age.
We do sometimes use the
We do sometimes use the network to render HD artworks. The sales of these artworks bring in the money we use to pay the programmers and pay the bills to keep the screensaver free to the public. This is explained in the instructions that come with the screensaver.
I agree with EDixon. I have
I agree with EDixon. I have not yet bought into the whole Blu-ray thing, but my computer can easily play 1080p video files. If I could get 1080p (or even 720) sheep as standard video files, that would maybe play in a custom version of electric sheep just for the HD sheep, I would be totally in with it. You could pile tons of sheep, even HD sheep, on a single DVD, or even a set. For that matter, they could even be offered for download as "packs".
The number of people who can
The number of people who can download and play HD files from the iTunes store is much larger than the number who can install a special version of the Electric Sheep. Plus they will handle all the ecommerce, so I'm going to look into using that. Thanks for asking.
Well, I've been playing with
Well, I've been playing with flam4, and I'd be willing to render a few HD Sheep for someone. Just tell me where I can get the .flam3 file, what quality you want and what resolution, and I'll give you a link as soon as I finish it.
High resolution server
There used to be a high res server @ http://denaje.gotdns.com He dropped out though due to lack of free time. Those sheep are "MPEG2 Video 1280x720 30.00fps 9000Kbps" according to mediaplayerclassic. It was dissapointing when they shut down.
no but i sell high definition
no but we sell high definition sheep on Blu Ray and hard disk (and other art works) to support the project, see buy art.
Prices are rather high...
The prices are insanely high... Sure, the spotworks DVD is only $15, and is the only one in the price range most people are able to afford, but it says it has music, and isn't purely sheep.
If you were selling high def Sheep, and only sheep, no music, I might buy a dvd for like $10 or $15, but I don't want visuals with music, and I don't have a blu ray player, so those insanely priced discs won't even work for me....
I agree. If Spot sold a disk
I agree. If Spot sold a disk full of HD sheep on their own, with not music etc- just like the normal sheep, I am sure it would sell very well.
That's what the Blu Rays are,
That's what the Blu Rays are, and the demo disk is not expensive, see http://scottdraves.com/bluray.html
That sounds the right sort of
That sounds the right sort of thing, but very few people have blu-ray (at least in the UK) and a doubt many more are going to get it.
So you want a DVD-ROM with a
So you want a DVD-ROM with a quicktime file?
DVD
I have Seven HD screens in my home bar/lounge area. One plays Spotworks, one plays Sheep 2.6 (because 2.7 will only run if I manually hit preview), and five play 2.7. While the screen saver is brilliant, there is always the want for more, and I'm constantly looking for new things to display. It's become habit to check the sheep site daily in hopes of updates.
I want to support the project, but almost everything is out of price range. In this economy, who has the money to buy an $88 shirt, or a $90... or $900 BluRay? I have house payments. Only thing I could afford was Spotworks.
I'd easily pay $15-30 for high res compilations, either on DVD or via some download system. Something special to change things up a bit in the room would be cool. I'm definitely going to need something different once I finish the projector I'm building.
I think you'd find you'd have success with lower priced items. Shit, I'd pay $10-12 + shipping for a burned DVD with no packaging or anything (maybe a sleeve) just to get my hands on some of the brilliant HD visuals. The only issue with DVDs is the size limitations.
Just something to consider. There's at least one of us who'd be willing to fork out smaller amounts of money, but would be willing to do so more frequently if it felt worth it. (yes, will be signing up for premium thing as well).
Yeah, I think you should do
Yeah, I think you should do what arakcheev says. Release a series of compilations of HD Sheep on a DVD or via downloading. I would certainly buy a few. You have two customers already.
That's possible but I think
That's possible but I think we are going to start with HD videos in the iTunes store where we can reach a much larger audience. Thanks for instigating this discussion.
Does that mean you will be
Does that mean you will be releasing a full series of sheep rendered into one video? If so, then that also seems like a good idea.
yup that's the plan.
yup that's the plan.
Will it be affordably priced?
Will it be affordably priced? Any idea what kind of video length we'll get for our moneys?
If thats what the screen
If thats what the screen saver uses- then yes. I, and probably lots of other people, would be willing to buy a DVD(or download a file, that would probably be easiest as you have potential customers all over the world) full of high definition sheep which will run like the usual screensaver(but in HD).