Making Of Halo 2 Video Officially Released

An anonymous reader writes "Halo.bungie.org has made available a video showing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Halo 2. The video was shown at the X03 event earlier this year but hasn't been officially available on the 'net. It weighs in at 100MB, with both direct-download and BitTorrent links." We previously covered a shakycam version of this movie, but it's now available in hi-res splendor.

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Best way to do BT for this sort of thing is to change your high-bandwidth FTP (or HTTP, but only the part that serves files) into BT seeds. Best of both worlds: even if the mirrors become saturated, cable and DSL leeches will generally ensure a minimum 20k/s download; and two weeks after a spike in popularity, the torrent will still work just fine (in fact, you'll be downloading from all the mirrors simultaneously, so there's primitive load balancing as a fringe benefit).

There are a number of other benefits, like no more wading through pages of mirrors trying to find one that works and isn't full. You could probably use it as an rsync replacement, but I'm not sure that would work well. Still, it will iron out file corruption that gets introduced in mirrors sometimes.