The Internet Archive

The Internet Archive

The Internet archive is a massive archival library hosted across the world, mostly backing up webpages and assets held within, forms and video/audio/text data.

Example: Dialog 2001 Archive

Proper Wording

An FM RF archive, needs to have a few basic things to be easily indexed and discoverable.

• Capture hardware used.
• VCR & Tap setup used.
• TV System & Tape Format.
• Command used to decode the FFV1 archive provided.
• Version of decode used at the time. (build version for Windows, Commit version for MacOS/Linux)

Making an Archive

Basics

• A cover.png will set the cover art for the archive in the main directory.
• Create a folder for your RF, Decoded Audio & Video, Video Proxys, and TBC files if included.
• Use the x264_web export to make a basic preview file from tbc-video-export.
• FLAC compressed audio is playable so that can be un-touched.
• Web playable files must be inside the .mp4 container.

Contents

• FM RF Data (FLAC Compressed)
• FFV1 10-bit (or 8-bit) 4:2:2 Video Files
• Notes file on commands used and post processing if any
• Label/Cover scans in TIFF or PNG lossless

Stopping Derivatives

Caution

Ensure you set your collection field to community video or audio, and not data for FM RF archives.

The site will automatically try to waste space and create derivatives low quality mp3/mp4 files of what it thinks is audio and video we do not want this, as it wastes there space and users time who want to download the archive.

To kill this problem simply do the following:

Create a file called:

_rules.conf

Containing Inside of it:

CAT.ALL

Save file inside your archive folder, if you upload this to older archives this will remove the derivatives already generated.

Derivatives IA Doc

Uploading Your Archive

Once you have organised your files locally and all your assets are in order you can upload your archive.

• Web Upload
• CLI Tool Upload
• Torrent Upload

Web

Web Upload is drag & drop via there site, ensure you have a account so you can go back and edit or fix uploads later on.

Tip

This can be slow and quite unreliable at times, so doing larger archives in batches of 20-100GB if possible is recommended.

Warning

Ensure you have your Title/URL in order before committing you can't change the URL easily afterwards.

CLI

CLI Upload is using there command line tool. (will make a expanded writeup on it later)

Torrent

Torrent upload is ware you create a page for your item and then upload a torrent i.g my-archive.torrent you have created with your files locally, this will allow slow but reliable upload and verification and allows you to also directly host and share the archive via the P2P bit torrent protocol.

You can create a torrent with qBittorrent or any full featured client software.

Be sure to use the trackers below you can also add other trackers.

bt1.archive.org
bt2.archive.org
http://bt1.archive.org:6969/announce
http://bt2.archive.org:6969/announce