TAS YouTube Channel

[almostmatt1]

The channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOJXrNSVsxzN3xaRRFZbWQ

Earlier this year I made a YouTube channel where I am posting every TAS demo on DSDArchive. Videos are in 4k and their descriptions include demo download links, pwad download links, some viddump details, creation date of the demo (for a while I was manually checking every txt file and only including this if the author did not write it themselves but I recently decided to automate this and just include it for every single video), and a copy of the txt file submitted with the demo. I want it to be as accurate to the original as possible so the txt file contents are untouched, including now-dead links and factually inaccurate information written by the author, unless it exceeds YouTubes 5,000 character description limit in which case I will manually prune away some text until it fits. This is the only time that txt files are changed, and it's mentioned if so. Videos are put into playlists based on player and wad and there's also a playlist for all movie runs. I have mentioned this channel already on Doomworld and on Discord so I apologise for repeating myself, but just in case it slipped past other tasers I wanted to make this thread so hopefully they're more likely to see it for two reasons:

- If you would specifically like me to not post your TAS demos please let me know. I hope noone minds me taking an opt-out approach instead of an opt-in one, I figure that if you have publicly posted a demo then you are probably just generally okay with it being public, but I guess it's possible that some people are fine with a demo on DSDArchive but not a video on YouTube for whatever reason. It's also of course perfectly reasonable and understandable that after your hard work on a TAS, perhaps you might only want views on your own channel. This is retroactive too, if I've already posted your stuff and you're unhappy about that I'll take it down. I'd love for the channel to have every single TAS demo but ultimately if you made the demo it's your call.

- If you'd like, I can viddump and upload a high quality video of your TAS for you before you post the demo to Doomworld so that you have a video alongside a demo to post, which should also mean that your demo will have a video linked to it when it makes its way to DSDArchive. Some folks are not in the fortunate position where their computers and/or internet can happily deal with making and uploading videos, especially 4k, so I'm happy to help you out! Reach out any time if you'd like this done and I'll sort it out as quickly as I can.* I do want to make it clear though that this only applies to TAS demos, I'm not doing anything with non-TAS demos with this channel.

 

As of writing this I've posted 461 videos but there are a little over 2,300 to do so there's quite some work to go yet. A decent amount of the work is thankfully automatable but with all the info I'm trying to include there are bound to be a few errors so I would also be quite appreciative if you could let me know if you notice any. A minor exception to this, sometimes the dates that are automatically detected and included in the video description differ from what the author defines in the txt file by a day which I assume is due to time zone stuff. Honestly, being off by only a day some of the time is a minor enough thing that I'm not going to worry about it.

 

Currently I'm working through the demos of notable TASers that appear to be retired or haven't been active for a significant amount of time such as Andy Olivera and Azuruish. After that I'll go back and work through each player alphabetically while also uploading newly posted demos. I initially planned to upload new demos as they were posted from day 1 but this approach instead lets me get a large amount of the work done before needing to worry about juggling uploading already existing demos while not missing the new ones.

Doing all this involves a fair bit of time consuming work so if you've already posted a TAS in the past and want to see a video of it it could be some time before I get to it, particularly if your username is alphabetically later.
*Even though I'm starting with some older demos from retired TASers before uploading new stuff, if you do want a specific demo viddumped and uploaded and request this it this will take priority over everything else.

Edited December 16, 2022 by almostmatt1

[Redneckerz]

@almostmatt1 just a heads up of support: i subbed to your channel. Was missing a dedicated TAS archive, so thank you :)

[Smoothandz]

@almostmatt1 Awesome! You just got another sub to your channel. Thanks for getting all these together. 

[BigBoy91]

Sweet! I love watching TAS runs on the big screen when I'm chillin around the house. Subbed!