I'll repost this to my cyberSaps category, as there's much here to do with Radio
OK, so I've made it easy for me to video blog. One thing I need, OK two more things I need, is some sort of queuing system in Radio, and more upstream bandwidth. I'm 3Mb down on cable but I'm only getting 30Kb/s up which when I'm trying to get up 10 avi files ranging from 17Mb to 1Mb plus their first JPEG image, that's 20 extra threads, on top of my existing 13... 33 threads in Frontier means she runs slowly. But with a nice orderly queue, things will go much nicer.

I'll probably not do so many vids in one go anyway. Still have to figure a way so that search engines don't go mad for my bandwidth.

How easy is it Steve? I simply drop the avis into a folder, the name of which can be 100, 150, 200, 300, 400 etc. This determines the size of the thumbnail you click through with. 200's best for these sized avis. And that's it. Radio picks them up, ImageMagick takes the first frame, jpgs it to the right size. Then, Radio upstreams them. And that's my only problem. Normally, my script works well for JPEGs, but with large avis...

I'm then presented with a list of shortcuts for the thumbnails, which I add to my post...

There's two main ways into the valley that is Ironbridge. This is the more westerly.

Esme and Bradley throwing rocks in the River Severn. But, it gets a little too exciting and she needs to go pee, "I'm desperate!"

Some bad background noise. Maybe I had my finger over the mic... Maybe it's too windy. This place used to be a warehouse. Now, it's the Telford Gorge's museum. One of many in the area.

Some more shots of the museum, and the kids throwing stones.

Pan down the river. And Esme wants to go paddling to get a leaf. Madness, she'd be swept away by the current.

As we walk up a tree lined path along the bank, Esme recounts a story about monsters, finds a leaf, then Bradley finds one too.

Ducks in the background. Esme asks a good question about English ducks and Chinese ducks.

Dead soldiers. Esme thinks they're in the big flower bed.

Pan of the Ironbridge itself. Birth place of the industrial revolution.

Time to go home, says Esme, after I pan from the church at the side of the valley back onto the bridge.