Comments on: Early-Bird Prize http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2009/04/03/early-bird-prize/ The MATLAB Programming Contest is a semi-annual competition where contestants submit MATLAB code to try to solve a challenge. For more information, see http://www.mathworks.com/contest/overview.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matthew http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2009/04/03/early-bird-prize/#comment-6521 Matthew Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:30:50 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2009/04/03/early-bird-prize/#comment-6521 Alan, File Exchange submissions are generally reviewed at least once per business day. During the contest, we're upping this frequency, but will still not be instantaneous. Thanks for your patience. With respect to the video size, I think the "'compression', 'None'" is what is inflating the size so much. You might experiment with a combination of available "Compression" codecs and "Quality" to get acceptable results with reasonable file size. Alan, File Exchange submissions are generally reviewed at least once per business day. During the contest, we’re upping this frequency, but will still not be instantaneous. Thanks for your patience.

With respect to the video size, I think the “‘compression’, ‘None’” is what is inflating the size so much. You might experiment with a combination of available “Compression” codecs and “Quality” to get acceptable results with reasonable file size.

]]> By: Alan Chalker http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2009/04/03/early-bird-prize/#comment-6520 Alan Chalker Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:39:50 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2009/04/03/early-bird-prize/#comment-6520 A quick update: The file was 'approved' at 8:30AM today. If you are interested in seeing it: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23565 (I know, another shameless plug, but I figure this contest is also about marketing your submissions;) A quick update: The file was ‘approved’ at 8:30AM today. If you are interested in seeing it: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23565 (I know, another shameless plug, but I figure this contest is also about marketing your submissions;)

]]> By: Alan Chalker http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2009/04/03/early-bird-prize/#comment-6519 Alan Chalker Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:08:15 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2009/04/03/early-bird-prize/#comment-6519 Two questions / concerns I have: 1. I just submitted an entry, and was surprised to NOT see it immediately appear online. Instead I got a message saying it needed to be reviewed and would take up to 5 days to appear?!?!?! I don't even have any type of link or reference to the upload listed in my profile, so for all I know it will disappear into the ether. Who is doing the reviewing? Obviously this could significantly impact the ability of entries to get seen by others if they aren't made public in a short amount of time. 2. My entry happens to include a video (shameless plug.. go see it please.. it's cool;). I figured out a way to make MATLAB create an AVI file and then display it as part of the published HTML. For this first submission, I deliberately kept the animation small and short, but the zip file is still over 2.5MB and uncompresses to over 150MB. Do we really need to include 'all the published' files? Downloading the .m file and running / publishing it produces the same results without taking up so much bandwidth. Two questions / concerns I have:

1. I just submitted an entry, and was surprised to NOT see it immediately appear online. Instead I got a message saying it needed to be reviewed and would take up to 5 days to appear?!?!?! I don’t even have any type of link or reference to the upload listed in my profile, so for all I know it will disappear into the ether. Who is doing the reviewing? Obviously this could significantly impact the ability of entries to get seen by others if they aren’t made public in a short amount of time.

2. My entry happens to include a video (shameless plug.. go see it please.. it’s cool;). I figured out a way to make MATLAB create an AVI file and then display it as part of the published HTML. For this first submission, I deliberately kept the animation small and short, but the zip file is still over 2.5MB and uncompresses to over 150MB. Do we really need to include ‘all the published’ files? Downloading the .m file and running / publishing it produces the same results without taking up so much bandwidth.

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