I’m pleased to announce the first (to my knowledge) public mirror of the world-famous MPlayerHQ multimedia samples archive, hosted right here at multimedia.cx (can you think of a better place?):
Here’s hoping the load doesn’t crush my simple hosting plan (which actually claims quite a bit of bandwidth per month, but we’ll see).
some of the codec dlls on the samples repo get a lot of hits. so many that mphq admins had to disable downloads for it. one of the intel jpg dlls i think. as it was reused in a bunch of other programs and none of those installed it for the users haha.
be nice to look around tho:
F:\mplayer-test>wget http://samples.multimedia.cx/
–07:47:43– http://samples.multimedia.cx/
=> `index.html.2′
Resolving samples.multimedia.cx… 207.45.186.114
Connecting to samples.multimedia.cx|207.45.186.114|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 403 Forbidden
07:47:43 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
@compn: Whoa! That’s unusual. It was working when I first activated the mirror. I’ll try to figure out what went wrong. Thanks for alerting me.
Okay, I fixed the problem. It had to do with an auto-generated .htaccess file that was supposed to do fancy indexing. It worked at first and then stopped working sometime in the last few days.
Note that VideoLAN now also has a mirror:
http://streams.videolan.org/samples/