Vtuber Archiving

[Anonymous No.]

I think with the recent rule changes on platforms and the very nature of vtubers where the possibility of graduating and some or all their videos disappearing could happen at any minute, there needs to be an active attempt to save the videos before it happens, instead of near the end when it's too late and everyone's scrambling to grab what they can. I would extend that to all other forms of entertainment as well that relies on digital distribution. At minimum 2~3 copies of the same video on multiple sources in case one of them breaks down or gets deleted for some reason.

I know of one that is mostly archiving youtube vtubers (mostly holo and some other vtubers) but it seems request are deactivated for now because of recent spam. I think I was helping out for maybe a week or less, focusing on 2 vtubers at a time to grab all their videos that weren't there before since what is saved is all over the place at times. Also, some videos (like Korone and Choco Ark videos) didn't seem to grab when requested. I know this happened a few times where 1 or 2 videos weren't grabbed when I focused on a single channel but would work again if requested but those 2 above didn't with the few days I spent doing it. I thought it was because most were in the over 11hr range but I know of a few 11hr videos that made it through so it might be a different issue. Maybe related to the rate limited issue I saw crop up in status a few times. If they ever open up again, I'll help with grabbing the missing videos and other obscure vtubers that may be overlooked as well.

I'm thinking of going further with this and also do twitch, bilibili and any other platforms that has a vtuber on them. Also trying to grab member exclusive videos as well that aren't floating on a torrent somewhere. I could probably get a few buddies to help but the effort might be a drop in the bucket to the vast amount of vtubers and videos out there. Not sure if anyone here is interested in helping out with this upcoming personal project I have in mind. I make a decent amount of money but I know it won't be an easy task to do alone since I've got storage to buy as well as membership on top of that. Also sleep since I'll likely miss an unarchived karaoke stream because of the time difference. Instead of relying on the hope of someone saving it and sharing it once its gone I'm just going to do it proactively. This might take a week to setup but I'm going to do it. Not sure where I'm going with this but I guess at the end of this, even if this is my battle to do alone, I want you out there to save every video that you even loved or interested you because nothing is permanent just like life itself. Hope to see you on the archiving frontlines with me.

[Anonymous No.]

I admire your spirit as an archivekek myself however I’m very selective and only wish to archive the ones I personally enjoy so I can’t aid you on your autism quest. Best of luck though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1367048
one major problem is; people will only act when an actual disaster is happening. ex. monoe's termination

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>>1366715
ideally some anon here sets up some idiotproof crawler that any retard can run on their PC and it grabs as much as they allow + seeds it as a torrent or on IPFS for easy retrieval
i've been thinking on it a little bit and i can probably set something up, would there be interest in such a program?

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>>1366715
The issue with Archiving Vtubers is that is kind of impossible for the average person to do, since they are mostly streamers all of their videos are at least longer than an hour so archiving them on the highest possible quality would require for someone to have fucking professional servers with hundreds of terabytes for just a couple of channels

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>>1367746
I can only imagine the warehouses full of hard drives of Youtube HQ

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>>1367799
If i remember correctly Google reported in 2019 i think that people were uploading like 500 hours of content per minute on Youtube

[Anonymous No.]

>>1367799
Imagine if someone were to burn all that down

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>>1366715
archiving images is easy but 2 hour long streams on 720p minimum sounds like a pain

[Anonymous No.]

I have 530gb of Projekt Melody footage. Mostly pornography.

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>>1367746
It's a lot but it's not unfeasible. Let's use Matsuri's channel as an example.
Using her most recent Apex video as a basis for data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGR9oVzcqiQ at 1080p = 6.96 GB per 205 minutes = .5659 MB/s - let's assume all videos have the same data rate because I don't know of an easy way to do that automatically
Total length of videos on channel (according to https://ytpulse.com/UCQ0UDLQCjY0rmuxCDE38FGg)) = 435 hours at .5659 MB/s = 886.2 GB
Cheapest price per TB hard drive on newegg: $19.37 USD

Essentially, you just need someone willing to spend $20 on their oshi, which shouldn't be hard to find.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1375418
>Mostly pornography.
Wait so she actually did porn on Chaturbate? her model is capable of that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1377247
Uh yeah, and still does.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1366715
Start archiving Tenten because she announced retirement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xOCWrEmv4

[Anonymous No.]

>>1380392
It was a drinking stream for Gibara

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>>1367944
There's a reason data centers basically have military security with gates, walls, armed patrols, no man zones, cameras, etc

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>>1366715
I've been archiving all of my oshi's videos since magnet's sudden "graduation" made me realise that could happen to anyone at any time

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>>1366715
But why? How many of you actually rewatch the VODs (or even watch them in the first place)?

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>>1366715
Learn some scripting skills. Contact people who already have preexisting archives and save yourself the pain. Upload complete or constantly growing archives to nyaa, separate it by year or every 500 gb or something.

[Anonymous No.]

i archived all of moruru like a week before she went down, i just used a mass video downloader and it didn't take too long, but she only had like 200 or less videos so it's a little different from tubers that have way more videos , then there's member stuff as well. Real pain was uploading all of it to YT but it seems like that's not something people usually do

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>>1367874
Google runs active-active meaning: take what they have stored per user and multiply that by 2.

If one data center is nuked, YT will failover to cluster 2

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone have the link to Kurumi's archive? I don't know what I did with the files but I don't have them anymore.

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>>1366715
Appreciate the transient nature of life instead of trying to work against the natural order of things.

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>>1367944
>>1386156
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd33UVZhnAA
streamsu are seifu

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>>1366715
nekomasu still alive?
i thought he stopped

[Anonymous No.]

https://archive.org/donate/

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>>1366715
It's basically 100% guaranteed that someday this will turn out to be something tons of faggots wish they had done in hindsight. I'd suggest a standardized torrent format that's easy to update using a script, with an index of all the torrents and their magnet links somewhere.