[Matthew]

I think from now on, I'll just post the best videos here before posting them all on the site. Here's the latest batch...

Local Forecasts
captain caribe (This was used recently.)
green onions (This was also used recently.)
hip hug her
ill be right here (Never heard this song before reviewing the DVD, but I really like it.)
moon dance
september rain
silent night
silver wheel
simple pleasure05
steam forest
sunrise
the first cut (HUGH! I have a video of Dan Pope talking about this song somewhere. So far I haven't been able to find it. )
the friendly skies
unpredictible
where are you now (Yes, this was also used in the late 80s.)

Travel Forecasts
celestial soda pop86 (Another song that recently got new airplay.)
islands87
sleigh ride86
take my love86 (People seem to like this song.)

Misc
goes satellite87
national cable month87
twc in jamaica87
twc in primetime87
vacationers atlas michigan87
wsi ad87

Unknowns
unk connors
unk
unk10
unk2
unk3
unk4
unk5
unk6
unk7
unk8
unk87
unk9

I'm sure we've already identified most (if not all) of the unknowns, but I'm drawing a blank.

[LocalOnThe8s]

The I'll be right here by Dwight Sills and Sunrise/Fred Gross videos stops after 30 seconds. I asked 2 other people and its the same result. Can you try reposting the video?

[Matthew]

I just realized that I recorded "Celestial Soda Pop" and "Sleigh Ride" last year.

LOT8S - I just reviewed both clips and they played all the way through for me. Did you download them or is your browser trying to steam them? If it's streaming, then there's a good chance it's a bandwidth issue (since I don't have a steaming server).

[zone OH02]

Hey Matt, just out of curiosity, when do you think the new IS guide will be up? I take it you had no issues with it.

[Matthew]

zone OH02, on 15 December 2009 - 08:07 AM, said:

Hey Matt, just out of curiosity, when do you think the new IS guide will be up? I take it you had no issues with it.

Unless it completely slips my mind, the next update (ie. w/these videos).

[Mike]

Matthew, on 14 December 2009 - 03:41 PM, said:

unk connors

Crunchy Cuts Up - Bill Connors.

[zone OH02]

All those unknowns I don't know, but I've never heard the old narration get that detailed. Also, who's the woman in some of them?

This post has been edited by zone OH02: 15 December 2009 - 05:11 PM

[Nick]

unk - Brandon Fields - Because of You

unk2 - Tom Grant - This Love

unk3 - Steps Ahead - Self Portrait

unk5 - Dan Siegel - On The Edge

unk10 - George Howard - Dancing in the Sun

As far as I know, the rest haven't been identified. I also had trouble downloading the videos (download would terminate part way through).

[Matthew]

zone OH02, on 15 December 2009 - 05:08 PM, said:

All those unknowns I don't know, but I've never heard the old narration get that detailed. Also, who's the woman in some of them?

Yah, isn't that annoying? No wonder they simplified it within a short time! No idea who the woman is.

Nick, on 15 December 2009 - 09:18 PM, said:

I also had trouble downloading the videos (download would terminate part way through).

Yah, I don't get it. I have the same problem at home, but not at work. The originals play fine as well. I'd ask my host to investigate, but since the problem isn't consistant, I'm not sure what to do.

[Matthew]

LocalOnThe8s, on 14 December 2009 - 04:01 PM, said:

The I'll be right here by Dwight Sills and Sunrise/Fred Gross videos stops after 30 seconds. I asked 2 other people and its the same result. Can you try reposting the video?

Just tried these files here at home (where I had the same problem as you on Monday), and they both downloaded/played fine.

[Kevin K]

hey matt, thanks for the update. I was checking out some of the star videos from Montana and the Dakotas which I thought were pretty cool since its the first time I've seen stars that that part of the country with the exception of a trip I went on to Wyoming and Montana about 5 years ago which I came across a jr. and 4000 (no videos of that though).

[Matthew]

You're welcome, Kevin. You can thank a YouTube member for those. I came across them and asked him if I could add them.

[Mike M]

Oh goodie, more Philly area clips! Thanks for sharing

[VernonMetcalf]

Matthew, on 16 December 2009 - 10:27 PM, said:

LocalOnThe8s, on 14 December 2009 - 04:01 PM, said:

The I'll be right here by Dwight Sills and Sunrise/Fred Gross videos stops after 30 seconds. I asked 2 other people and its the same result. Can you try reposting the video?

Just tried these files here at home (where I had the same problem as you on Monday), and they both downloaded/played fine.

This problem still seems to be happening for me too for not just the new videos posted on this thread, but also on most of the videos in the Video section of the website (regardless of FLV or WMV).

[Matthew]

VernonMetcalf, on 28 December 2009 - 10:41 PM, said:

This problem still seems to be happening for me too for not just the new videos posted on this thread, but also on most of the videos in the Video section of the website (regardless of FLV or WMV).

I don't know what to do. My host is of no help because they can't recreate the problem. They said if it happens again to do a tracert of the file and send them the results. So, the next time this happens, open a command prompt and type tracert and the path to the file you're having issues with. Post the results here (or PM me). If you're not familar on how to save the results, you can follow the instructions on this page. Thanks.

[VernonMetcalf]

Matthew, on 29 December 2009 - 10:08 AM, said:

VernonMetcalf, on 28 December 2009 - 10:41 PM, said:

This problem still seems to be happening for me too for not just the new videos posted on this thread, but also on most of the videos in the Video section of the website (regardless of FLV or WMV).

I don't know what to do. My host is of no help because they can't recreate the problem. They said if it happens again to do a tracert of the file and send them the results. So, the next time this happens, open a command prompt and type tracert and the path to the file you're having issues with. Post the results here (or PM me). If you're not familar on how to save the results, you can follow the instructions on this page. Thanks.

Here's the results of a certain file from the site. I used http://www.twcclassi...iesta%20Sol.wmv as an example of all the files I have problems accessing.

Tracing route to www.twcclassics.com/files/local-forecast/Fiesta%20Sol.wmv [24.28.193.9]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



  1     1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1 

  2    10 ms     9 ms     8 ms  10.41.160.1 

  3    11 ms    10 ms     8 ms  srp3-0.dytnoh1-rtr1.woh.rr.com [24.29.160.1] 

  4    15 ms    14 ms    15 ms  tge1-0-2.clboh1-rtr0.mwrtn.rr.com [65.25.137.177] 

  5    25 ms    31 ms    25 ms  ae-4-0.cr0.chi30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.68] 

  6   101 ms    95 ms    90 ms  ae-4-0.cr0.nyc20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.24] 

  7    93 ms    92 ms    91 ms  ae-0-0.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.26] 

  8    89 ms    95 ms    89 ms  ae-4-0.cr0.dca20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.28] 

  9    90 ms    91 ms    92 ms  66.109.10.80 

 10   218 ms   204 ms   177 ms  66.109.6.85 

 11   179 ms   192 ms   186 ms  hrndvaspk-swt1-ge1-1.hrndva.rr.com [24.30.192.66] 

 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 20    92 ms    94 ms    94 ms  24.28.193.9 

[Matthew]

Thanks, Vernon. I forwarded your report to my host. Hopefully, they can come up with a solution.

[Matthew]

My host replied and said it is clearly an ISP issue. And looking at the results, I can see that (the timeout occurs before it reaches the host). But still, this doesn't make sense to me.

Those of you who have experienced this problem - do you have the same issue with other sites (where you can download WMVs or watch FLVs - in particular, TWCT)? Has this only recently occurred? And finally, does it occur with all/most videos? Or just ones that have been recently posted? Thanks.

[Matthew]

Scratch that. I asked them the questions myself and hopefully found the answer. They had set my site's memory too low. So they raised it and now everything seems to be good. Guess it pays to be a pain in a** sometimes.

For those of you that were having trouble, please verify on your end. Thanks!

[Matthew]

This issue is still not resolved. My host is not seeing the problem (showing me screenshots as proof), but I'm still having problems. Really starting to piss me off.

[Matthew]

If my host can't find a solution, I might have a backup plan. I did some research and it seems Amazon's Simple Storage Solution might be the answer. So I signed up for an account and uploaded a few files for testing. In particular, ones that people were having trouble viewing on this server. I tested them out and (surprise) they played just fine. Before brining this news to my host, I want to make sure I'm not the only one. Please try the following files and let me know how they play. Thanks.

Downloads:
ill be right here
Fiesta Sol
unpredictible

FLV player:
ill be right here
Fiesta Sol
unpredictible

[brian7800]

Matthew, on 01 January 2010 - 11:30 PM, said:

If my host can't find a solution, I might have a backup plan. I did some research and it seems Amazon's Simple Storage Solution might be the answer. So I signed up for an account and uploaded a few files for testing. In particular, ones that people were having trouble viewing on this server. I tested them out and (surprise) they played just fine. Before brining this news to my host, I want to make sure I'm not the only one. Please try the following files and let me know how they play. Thanks.

Downloads:
ill be right here
Fiesta Sol
unpredictible

FLV player:
ill be right here
Fiesta Sol
unpredictible

Hi Matt,

The links you provided seem to work fine when I played them. But when I went back to various videos the same problem occurs. Even when I downloaded them the same problem. But the audio clips play fine on my laptop. Now I tried alot of the audio clips on a computer at work and alot of them were cut short- some 10 sec. some 40 sec.

[Mike]

I've had no trouble downloading or playing back videos (WMA or FLV) either in this thread or in the site. If I find any that won't I'll be sure to let you know.

[Matthew]

Okay. I guess I'll have to move all the content to Amazon. Hopefully I can get that done this week. Thanks, guys.

[Bryan]

The "unpredictible file" is the only one that works for me. Under the downloads section. The FLV all work for me.

This post has been edited by Bryan: 03 January 2010 - 03:28 PM

[Martin]

Matthew, on 03 January 2010 - 02:27 PM, said:

Okay. I guess I'll have to move all the content to Amazon. Hopefully I can get that done this week. Thanks, guys.

Matt I am considering packing up TWCT and moving elsewhere. You are not alone with these issues. For 2 days I could barely view posts or access my forum thanks to the memory settings for the database being too low. They finally raised it enough. They must have implemented some new policies or something because since before Christmas I have been having nearly non-stop troubles. I am looking at other hosts at the moment myself.

[Matthew]

Martin, on 04 January 2010 - 05:07 AM, said:

Matt I am considering packing up TWCT and moving elsewhere. You are not alone with these issues. For 2 days I could barely view posts or access my forum thanks to the memory settings for the database being too low. They finally raised it enough. They must have implemented some new policies or something because since before Christmas I have been having nearly non-stop troubles. I am looking at other hosts at the moment myself.

I'd do that too, but 95% of hosts out there suck. So it's nearly impossible for find a decent one. In the 12 years I've been hosting this site, I've gone through at least half a dozen hosts. HostGo is the only decent one I've found (and in all fairness, they've been very good to this point). Well, that and i-dentity.com. The only problem I had with them was that they were a little too expensive. Of course, the last time I used them was many years ago. For all I know, they could be terrible now.

If you find a good host, please share!