African Safari presentation

[kulamaui]

I have uploaded a new P2E show at http://www.silverfallsranch.com/africa.exe. This is quite large at 67MB, so I don't recommend downloading with a dialup modem. There are 447 "slides" from an incredible photo safari trip this summer to Botswana and Zambia. I did not include 9 additional mp3 files that I recorded of singing from trip, although there is some embedded animal sounds in the exe. In case anyone is interesteed, the photos were all digital and shot with Canon digital bodies (10D and D60) and the Canon 100-400 IS L and 24-70 f/2.8 L lenses.

I have a couple of old shows on the Beechbrook site Kula Maui and Peru, but I'm sure this was too large so I put it on a client site that had some space.

Enjoy,

Mitch Silver

http://www.maui2000.com/photo.htm

[Ken Cox]

Mitch

cant get to either link

http://www.silverfallsranch.com/africa.exe.

http://www.maui2000.com/photo.htm

coming down now but the exe was only 3.5 meg

will try again

seems like i am getting it now -- got a good feed from your server

the picts at

http://www.maui2000.com/africa/

are outstanding

maybe another Marty Stouffer

only got 55.9 meg therefore get a list out of bounds when i try to open

will try again

GOT IT BY USING GOZILLA

was worth my several trys

congrats Mitch on a show with all the features

ken

[kulamaui]

Thanks for trying the download Ken. This is on a new, and untested by me, server - so I'll be interested to see if completing large downloads are an issue.

Thanks,

Mitch

[alrobin]

Mitch,

Welcome back to the Forum! I enjoyed your other shows very much, especially the one on Peru.

Maybe you could break the show into two pieces, with the first one activating the second.

I looked at your web site - you sure have some beautiful wildlife photos! Were they from several trips?

[kulamaui]

I just successfully downloaded the show to my computer. Took about 5 minutes - no problem. Do please try again.

alrobin: Thanks for the kind word on the images on my website. They are from multiple trips - most over the last several years. This summer's Africa trip was certainly one of the best if not the best for everyone in my family.

Breaking the show into pieces would be problematic as I have a lot of navigation links throughout the show and removing pages throws everything off. In fact that would possibly be a nice feature for a future version - the ability to change an internal link to another slide to a relative navigation link - so links went to a fixed # slides before or after the current slide instead of a specific slide number.

Aloha,

Mitch

[think(box)]

Mitch, you are using one of the fastest servers out there! You maxed out my DSL speed for a six minute download time to capture the full 67MB. Many servers limit download speed to less (not yours!) and some do not support or allow multi-download accelerators.

I sampled the show before this post, and the photography and audio are very impressive. I can't wait to see the rest of it - thank you!

BTW, can't you use file splitters to break up and then recombine large files as an alternative to separated slideshow sections?

[alrobin]

Mitch,

I thought I had successfully downloaded your show early this AM, but when I try to run it, I get an Exception error saying List Index out of bounds. (Win Me.) Must be my fault, as others seem to be able to run it.

I'll try again sometime on my XP laptop.

[Ken Cox]

Al make sure you got the full download -- took me several times to get 65.4 size /68.62 size on disk.

ken

[alrobin]

Ken,

The size of my file on disk is 63.8 (66,928,640 bytes). So, maybe I didn't get it all. Thanks.

Edit: I checked the size of the successful download, and you were right - I didn't get it all the first or second times. Thanks again for the heads-up!

[alrobin]

Mitch,

I switched over to my laptop and successfully downloaded your fine show. Someone sure put a lot of time on this masterpiece - it is excellent, and well-worth persevering with the download!

The bird sounds make for a nice touch - and they are not overpowering either. And the photography is awesome. I was particularly impressed with your photos of the bee-eaters, and the lilac-breasted roller - those are not easy to get, at least not in this fine a detail!

Thanks so much for sharing this!

[Ken Cox]

I think it was Mitch's Peru show that set off people's norton AV last time we had the problem -- lets hope Norton have got the sigs right this time

Al

i think that Mitch's new server runs out of oommpp at times -- pretty hot feed - sure glad my isp had upped my bandwidth and dropped the limitations

ken

[kulamaui]

Thanks!!!

The sounds were recorded using a mini disc recorder. I left out of the show another 15MB of mp3 sound files that would be played by your default mp3 player, in order to save space. The only effect is that one slide with the "music" has 9 dead links to these songs. These were singing performances by the staff of the safari camps. I design my shows to be distributed by CD so file size is usually not much of an issue.

This hosting server (see http://www.icdsoft.com/hosting.php) looks to be a really good deal. For US$65 you get a year of hosting including new domain name registration, 333MB of space, unlimited emails and more. I have another show that I did earlier this year on The Temples of Angkor / Cambodia but it is over 100MB so I need to wait till I register another domain before I can post that one - unless someone else has a lot of space and bandwidth to share.

I could use file splitters to break up the file into several chunks, but I suspect that it would probably end up being more confusing to novices than helpful. What do you think.

Keep me posted if there are ongoing download problems.

Thanks again and aloha,

Mitch