Steam Movies MATH !!!(WTF)

[BWMASTER]

Just did these math calculations.
If valve encodes all of the E3 demo videos in the same quality and in the same form as the G-Man video it would be like this:

If 1:30 min = 68 MB (G-Man Video)

Then 22:30 min = 1020 or 1.020 GB (all the movies bunched together)

Thats a bit more than 800 MB (Mega Bytes, not Mega Bits, lol)

And this does not include the scene with the flying buzz scanners which will wheigh in at another 100 MB or so.

This will make the movies folder to wheigh in at about 1.120 GB by the time the E3 movies are all out !!!!!

 

[Kleptomaniac]

And that's just the videos... I bet the game will be quite a bit larger

 

[simmo]

I hate maths

 

[BWMASTER]

Don't worry, i did it all for you, LOL

 

[Iced_Eagle]

lol time to defrag and clean out the HD

 

[el Chi]

CD-R, anyone?

 

[Chris D]

That's not forgetting the 400mb gcache.gcf file...
Why on earth is that there anyway? I mean in the CS folders that's where all the models are compressed to, so what's compressed in... the movies... folder........ movies?

Maybe we already have them all....?

 

[BWMASTER]

that what I thought the first time , but you never know

 

[Chris D]

Maybe he wasn't joking so much when he said: "Oops, we've accidentally released all the media. Have Fun!"

 

[Northwood83]

Yeah, I dont think bink acts like a .bmp and just goes by the resolution to detemin size.

 

[Guest]

Defrag: Did it yesterday
Sweep the HD: Daily
Anti-Spyware:Hmmmm....maybe I should run Ad-aware, I've installed and uninstalled KaZaA more time than I can count (and I can count pretty high! 1, 2...uhh, 3,4.....)

 

[Tyl3n0L]

Hopefully they going to release the others movies in a divx format...

 

[Sushi]

lol, I only have 500mb left in the C drive, time to do some cleaning!

 

[Northwood83]

Id rather it be in bink, I care about quality first then size. If you looking for a divx fix check out my 56k thread. Ive only got .80 megs left on drive C, thanks to converting the G-Man to divx. Im experimenting now with keeping the full rez.

 

[Tyl3n0L]

well i have my own divx format ... 20mb ... the same quality of the original one ... 1024x574

 

[Chris D]

I cleared my HDD up today and gained 5 GBs of space back

Organised everything too

 

[flupke]

BTW : Does anyone know 'how' HL2 will be released? How many CD-R's? How much diskspace will it take? Will it be released in ISO or something like that on Steam? Zip?

 

[NiteStalker]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
Just did these math calculations.
If valve encodes all of the E3 demo videos in the same quality and in the same form as the G-Man video it would be like this:

If 1:30 min = 68 MB (G-Man Video)

Then 22:30 min = 1020 or 1.020 GB (all the movies bunched together)

Thats a bit more than 800 MB (Mega Bytes, not Mega Bits, lol)

And this does not include the scene with the flying buzz scanners which will wheigh in at another 100 MB or so.

This will make the movies folder to wheigh in at about 1.120 GB by the time the E3 movies are all out !!!!!

I understand that you are worried but I'm not. I have 93 GB free space left

Originally posted by flupke
BTW : Does anyone know 'how' HL2 will be released? How many CD-R's? How much diskspace will it take? Will it be released in ISO or something like that on Steam? Zip?

As far as I know no-one knows the size yet.

 

[Kleptomaniac]

Jeez that's just my luck...
My Plextor CD Burner just died! Which is typical, since I have like 700 megs free on my HD now. Great ;p

 

[NiteStalker]

Did it just die? Never happened to me, and i've never heard of it. But i'm no burner, hehe

 

[Jmechy]

god its nice to have 150 gigs free...

btw guys, hard drives are getting really cheap. With discounts you can get under a buck a gig, just search around!

 

[NiteStalker]

How many gigs do you have Jmechy (totaly). I've got 180 and it was really cheap.

I recomend this to all of you. Even if you think it's unnessecary it's really good. You don't have to worry about space at all...

 

[Chris D]

I have a 120gb HDD but it's been partitioned into 3 drives... Anyone know how I can "unlock" it and make it into two partitions (one of them is the recovery drive that I'd like to keep).

 

[SidewinderX]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
Just did these math calculations.
If valve encodes all of the E3 demo videos in the same quality and in the same form as the G-Man video it would be like this:

If 1:30 min = 68 MB (G-Man Video)

Then 22:30 min = 1020 or 1.020 GB (all the movies bunched together)

Thats a bit more than 800 MB (Mega Bytes, not Mega Bits, lol)

And this does not include the scene with the flying buzz scanners which will wheigh in at another 100 MB or so.

This will make the movies folder to wheigh in at about 1.120 GB by the time the E3 movies are all out !!!!!

Your math is wrong.
1024MB=1GB so it's almsot 1 GB

 

[dscowboy]

Originally posted by nietzsche
Your calculations are faulty. Bink compresses videos into streams of variable size. Basically said, if there's a lot of motion going on and the screen contents changes rapidly, the file size will grow and vice versa.

If there would be none or at least a very low compression ratio used, you could (approximately) foretell the size of all videos the way you did.

The g-man video is definitely the most compressible of all the videos. It's just a floating head with a black background. If anything, the total size is going to be larger than what BWM estimated.

 

[BWMASTER]

I thought 1000 mb =1 GB (hmmm)

Also HL2 could be on 3-4 cds easily.

There was a game way back when that was on 4 CDs it was about X-Files (and it looked so realistic because it was filmed, actual movie photorealistic game)

 

[Kleptomaniac]

Originally posted by BWMASTER
I thought 1000 mb =1 GB (hmmm)

Also HL2 could be on 3-4 cds easily.

There was a game way back when that was on 4 CDs it was about X-Files (and it looked so realistic because it was filmed, actual movie photorealistic game)

He's right, 1024MB = 1 GB. That's why when you buy a harddrive the size it shows in windows is always smaller than the size you were supposed to get (for example, a 20 gig hard drive has somewhere around 18.6 gigs of space, a 40 gig hard drive has somewhere around 37 gigs of space, etc.). Has something to do with dodgy mathematics, not sure of the exact explanation.

BTW, Enter the Matrix was released on 4 CD's as well, god knows why.

 

[droper]

i expect the next vids to be much bigger then this one on a perframe basis considering more things going on and more colour(black background). so by the calculation it probably will be about that big though they did say that its 800 total and i am sure they are talkin about a version they made so whats there to speculate?

 

[Mountain Man]

I'd be surprised if Half-Life 2 shipped on more than 2 CD's. The reason Enter the Matrix took up so many CD's is because of the high quality full-motion video included with the game. That kind of thing takes up gobs of room.

 

[Kotik]

We have luck.
HalfLife2 won't have any vids.

 

[BWMASTER]

Yeah

 

[SpuD]

40 Gb HDD and a 120 Gb HDD, bring it on.

 

[Remedy]

Originally posted by Kleptomaniac
He's right, 1024MB = 1 GB. That's why when you buy a harddrive the size it shows in windows is always smaller than the size you were supposed to get (for example, a 20 gig hard drive has somewhere around 18.6 gigs of space, a 40 gig hard drive has somewhere around 37 gigs of space, etc.). Has something to do with dodgy mathematics, not sure of the exact explanation.

BTW, Enter the Matrix was released on 4 CD's as well, god knows why.

Its because of marketing. HDD manufacturers want to make it seem like they have more space on their hard drives, in turn they use 1000 MB = 1 GB. Microsoft and almost everyone else uses 1024 MB = 1 GB. Thats the short way of explaining it. Its also because of the metric system but that gets more detailed than i'd like to go.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Matrix was a waste of plastic.

 

[el Chi]

Remedy, I have to ask - where did you get that picture for your avatar? It's so disturbing and yet so amusing at the same time...

<Cowers in a corner whilst giggling slightly at the same time>

 

[Remedy]

Hehe, it was in the gallery of my clans forum. I've used it ever since. It looks better however at 100x100. Cause then u can see the joint in his mouth.

 

[Jmechy]

i have 220 gigs total, and another 15 gig hard drive that i took out cause i didn't really need it (someone asked, this is not mindless spam)

 

[$niper]

Eh. I have an 80gb and a 4gb sitting around.

 

[jasonh1234]

Quick! Delete all your pR0n and MP3s

 

[Straylight]

Originally posted by Mountain Man
I'd be surprised if Half-Life 2 shipped on more than 2 CD's. The reason Enter the Matrix took up so many CD's is because of the high quality full-motion video included with the game. That kind of thing takes up gobs of room.

Exactly. It 70 mb/min because it's a video at an insaine resoulution. In fact, Half-Life 2 will have no pre-rendered cutscenes so it will actually probbly be small. 1 disc wouldn't supprise me. I imagine the biggest space-hog will be the sound files that make up the dialogue in the 30+ hours of HL2.

-Straylight