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  1. #1 torrents and file clouding or posting in mail 
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    I have a couple of movies that were from magazines, sorry, I meant to say they are home movies, some of you would like perhaps. On motorbike stuff. I can transcode them to AVI format but thye still come out at 700 meg, to be watchable on a TV. However that means they squeeze onto one of the cheap blank CD's I have. Too much to stick on 'image shack free' or similar anyway.

    I have read mixed reports of whether it is OK, or worthwhile trying to send a DVD/CD or thumbdrive into China. Some say no probs some say they are all destroyed at border or local Post Centres. Surely by now businesses are sending promo discs around and so on? Or is it all electronic?

    So, to torrent or to cloud? If I torrent doesn't my machine have to act as a server and be on all the time or are there repositories you upload to? Would it be easier to cloud host them and send links to mates etc. so they can download? I have to watch the expenses as I am tied to very slow wireless internet and high rates of $15 a gig minimum. Also it takes a few hours to upload so once at a time is what I want with easy uploads.

    If I post, how do Chinese addresses work? I assume I would need both English and Chinese addresses?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jape View Post
    If I post, how do Chinese addresses work? I assume I would need both English and Chinese addresses?
    Country in uppercase & postal code MUST correct (Check http://www.cpdc.com.cn if unsure. City/Province in English are reference ONLY) ensure it delivered to nearest post office.
    Postal staff in "town " delivers ur mail may/ may not (there was story some di**head dump ??? address mailings in news ) like the FULL address in English, so write something he reads clearly ... FULL address in Chinese.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jape View Post
    I have read mixed reports of whether it is OK, or worthwhile trying to send a DVD/CD or thumbdrive into China. Some say no probs some say they are all destroyed at border or local Post Centres. Surely by now businesses are sending promo discs around and so on? Or is it all electronic?
    I wouldn't recommend sending data on CD/DVD or USB stick through from outside the PRC. Just another thing that may, or may not, get held up and thrown away. Promo discs and junk mail are not very common.

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    So, to torrent or to cloud? If I torrent doesn't my machine have to act as a server and be on all the time or are there repositories you upload to? Would it be easier to cloud host them and send links to mates etc. so they can download? I have to watch the expenses as I am tied to very slow wireless internet and high rates of $15 a gig minimum. Also it takes a few hours to upload so once at a time is what I want with easy uploads.
    You only need to seed the torrent log enough for one person to get the entire file, then everyone can leech it off of them instead.

    Quote Originally Posted by jape View Post
    If I post, how do Chinese addresses work? I assume I would need both English and Chinese addresses?
    It's best to put an English (get it out of your country) address and a Chinese (ensure it actually gets delivered) address.

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    Why so much trouble? Put the video(s) in a .rar file and upload it to Hotfile for example and post the link. Torrents are
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    I 2nd to Barry's method, archive videos in a encrypted (password protected) rar/zip. Besides, I would use avc/h264 codec for smaller file size, mpeg4/divx is out.
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    Thanks to all of you, will look into all that.
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    when we send DVD to Germany, we use a "human postman". somebody takes them into his/her luggage and in Germany they make their last trip per normal post office.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Why so much trouble? Put the video(s) in a .rar file and upload it to Hotfile for example and post the link. Torrents are
    Boardband in OZ using a "fair" system More Bandwidth = More $$$
    The common chinese "unlimted" entermient (d/l evething: latest porn / TV series .... ) NEVER heard there
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Why so much trouble? Put the video(s) in a .rar file and upload it to Hotfile for example and post the link. Torrents are
    Being in China most known video sites are blocked. I heavily rely on torrents. Takes a bit of time to learn, but worth it. It's the best method to transferring large data: no need for zip/rar archiving, can pause/resume upload multiple times, is happy with whatever bandwidth it gets(you can set a limit). All you need to do is find a good tracker. But not everything is easy to find on torrents.
    Hint, if you're going to use a service like http://hotfile.com better split the archive into multiple parts; usually if your connection is interrupted, you have to restart the upload from the beginning. Another such service is http://www.filehosting.org/ they say no size limit.
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    Well it is all annoying me today, can't get Handbrake software into apt-get, the DVD rip software says it needs 85 gig free to do a simple 3.6 gig transcode, hotfile and filehosting uploads both stuffed up after hundreds of megs and have no resume thus all lost at my expense. I might use some cloud backup like dropbox temporarily.
    But no more today!
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