A couple weeks back, I wrote about Phil Lesh sitting in at an Umphrey's McGee concert I was at. Quickly afterwards, a couple of short video clips popped up, but soon disappeared. I managed to snag them and have now set up a torrent (if the Umprheys people would prefer I not host this video, please get in touch and I'll take this down).

It's about a minute of total video which isn't all that much, but still cool just to see. The real reason I'm putting this up is that I was futzing around with creating torrents directly from Linux with btmakemetafile.py and wanted to make sure I've got everything set up right. Previously, I've been going through the extra hassle of making torrents using MakeTorrent in Windows, but when the files get large, transferring files to a windows machine just to spit out a torrent doesn't make sense.

Up until today, I couldn't get btmakemetafile.py to work correctly to create torrents, but it looks like this was caused by installing the Linux maketorrent-1.2.zip on top of the original bt python scripts. I went back to just the BitTorrent-3.4.2 source and no problems at all.

And for something completely random, here's a great picture from the same show which also happens to show my hands clapping in the bottom left corner. You might wonder how I know those are my hands, but trust me, I know my weird thumbs like .... well, like the back of my hand.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 01:18 PM in torrents | Comments (0)