SVCD MPEGs of HoG, Trash, and The Message now available by trs80

FIREFLY EPISODE DISCUSSIONS

SVCD MPEGs of HoG, Trash, and The Message now available

POSTED BY: TRS80
UPDATED: Monday, June 16, 2003 08:42
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Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:10 PM

Hey, just wanted to say "thanks." Am sharing and will continue to do so. I, also, hope that susurrous.net comes back up, and soon! If not, I hope someone else will step in...

I'm on KLite when I can be...

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Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:12 PM

CCT

My extreme frustration!!!

First off, I downloaded "The Message" a couple of days ago, but put off watching it until after I'd downloaded and watched "Heart of Gold" and "Trash"- gotta watch them in order of course!

Well, I found out last night that it hadn't fully downloaded- I only had about half the file! Grrr... started download again, to watch it tonight... got about 80% this time... really REALLY wanted to watch it this evening.

Third time... started downloading yet again.. my power went out! (thunderstorm) ARRARRRGGHHHH!!! Plus I dumped a few people that were downloading other eps from me. Sorry guys :(

AND because of the storm my satellite TV is wonky. I'm about to the point of resorting to playing solitare (for real, with actual cards), or maybe tiddly-winks?

I'm about ready to go Reaver and start smashing things.

AARGGGGGGTHHHHH!!! Must.... have.... Firefly.... ARRRRGHHH!

cct

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Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:28 PM

OUTLANDER

If you get on to Kazaa Lite you will find all the episodes I am downloading Heart of Gold at the moment. I found four users with it.

If you use Kazaa Lite instead of Kazaa you will have better results. With Kazaa Lite you can keep clicking "search more" as many times as you want and there is a box you can tick for "auto search more" so it constantly keeps search for the episode, a very useful option.

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Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:36 PM

MRMALCOLMREYNOLDS

I need the episode, heart of gold. I can't find it on Kazaa anywhere. help please!

Shiny!

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Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:55 PM

CALDEEN

I have downloaded trash and the message but whenever try to play them all get is the audio. Have yet to get Heart of gold. When try to download them from torrent site get a small file that doesnt play. Any help would be appreciated. In captain dummy talk please.

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Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:07 PM

MRMALCOLMREYNOLDS

Quote:
Originally posted by caldeen:
I have downloaded trash and the message but whenever try to play them all get is the audio. Have yet to get Heart of gold. When try to download them from torrent site get a small file that doesnt play. Any help would be appreciated. In captain dummy talk please.

Go to www.divx-digest and download the SVCD decoder on the software-decoders page. It should work then.

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Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:14 PM

BIMO

Thank you so much for putting these files online, guys!

I don't know whether this helps, but I just put a slightly renamed version of "Message" on EMule http://www.emule-project.net

Here's the ed2k-link:
ed2k://|file|Firefly_1x14_message.mpg|804269004|7C245061B401EB6F1FEEDC127A144AB0|/

Bimo

~~ Wrapped in Videotape ~~

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Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:27 PM

MRMALCOLMREYNOLDS

I put "The message" in my kazaa folder. I have a big single file, and two smaller files so you can fit it on a cd in case you need to burn it.

You are a tweaked one, you are.

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Friday, June 13, 2003 6:24 AM

SUNDERWOOD

Ok. My tape arrived yesterday too from the Ebay auction. I watched it last night and the quality would be about a 7 or a little higher on a scale of 10.

I have a DVD bitrate compatible encoder card so I can make an exact digital duplicate. The weak link is that I'm starting with VHS, but it was shiny with the gag reel.

I'll make my own SVCD at a 6 mbs bitrate for oversampling. Then software encode it down to 640x480 SVCD and 320x240 VCD.

I would expect these to be up on Kazaa and WinMX early next week.

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Friday, June 13, 2003 6:25 AM

SUNDERWOOD

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Friday, June 13, 2003 6:50 AM

CLAUDIA

Caldeen, that sounds like you haven't installed BitTorrent. Have you? Without it, you just get a small pointer file.

You can download BitTorrent from http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/bittorrent/bittorrent-3.2.1.exe or visit the BitTorrent site at http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

Doubleclick the .exe file to install it. Then go back to physicschick's web page and click on each of the links to start a real download... of course, it's down again at the moment.

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Friday, June 13, 2003 7:37 AM

GOSSIP

BitTorrent++ is IMHO the best Windows client to date. It's a matter of taste, tho.

http://btplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Oh, and a big "Thanks for putting up those downloads" to all who, well, put up those downloads. ;)

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Friday, June 13, 2003 7:58 AM

PBGAINES

I am working on an editing project using Firefly video, and I would be grateful if I could get access to the video of the episodes as you describe them. The project is described here:

http://www.pbgaines.com/firefly/

and I would be happy to pay cost.

Quote:
Originally posted by SUNDERWOOD:
Ok. My tape arrived yesterday too from the Ebay auction. I watched it last night and the quality would be about a 7 or a little higher on a scale of 10.

I would expect these to be up on Kazaa and WinMX early next week.

BTA

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Friday, June 13, 2003 8:11 AM

AARONSW

Since it looks like PhysicsChick's site will be down for a while, can folks who have downloaded her .torrent files email them to me? I'll put them up on an a different (and hopefully more reliable) BitTorrent server.

Send just the .torrent files to me@aaronsw.com

Thanks!

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Friday, June 13, 2003 8:22 AM

3278

First of all, let me express my amazement and gratitude for this site and all those contributing to it. I'd thought for quite some time I was "very much alone out here."

Second, oh happy day, I have more Firefly to watch. Except that I can't find anything but Message on Kazaa, and the bitTorrent site - as mentioned previously - isn't up. So does anyone anywhere know where we can get these episodes?

I, like I imagine anyone else here, am perfectly willing to host the torrents, if only to earn the right to watch the episodes. So if there's /anything at all/ I can do to help out, please, let me know; I have several high-capacity webservers at my disposal, and enough spare time to kill a cow, whose tolerances for spare time are, as you can imagine, quite high.

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Friday, June 13, 2003 8:30 AM

TWOBLUE

Quote:
Originally posted by KatsInNuyork:
help, please.
i've downloaded the VLC player but my "message" mpg (which i got from LJC's site) is still not working :( i'm on a mac. when i double click on the VLC document it says "the application program that created it cannot be found."
what else can i do? is there anybody out there who can convert it the files to run in "normal" quicktime? i remember the gag reel played OK in quicktime ...

kat

Hi Kat, got your e-mail, sorry to hear that the free MPEG-2 players from versiontracker.com didn't work for playing "The Message" on your Mac.

I couldn't stand having the episode just sit on my desktop so I found the missing Quicktime component at Apple's site ( http://www.apple.com/quicktime/buy/mpeg2playback.html, if you're interested) and purchased it. It plays fine now.

I was willing to pay $20. just to see one episode of a T.V. show that Fox cancelled. How stupid does that make one of us ?

(Um, I can safely ask that among you guys and be assured of your choice, right ?)

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Friday, June 13, 2003 8:50 AM

AARONSW

While not as nice as QuickTime, I've found VLC to play almost any file. (Although often the controls won't work properly and other weird things will happen.) Download it for Mac OS X here:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

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Friday, June 13, 2003 9:04 AM

TWOBLUE

Quote:
Originally posted by aaronsw:
While not as nice as QuickTime, I've found VLC to play almost any file. (Although often the controls won't work properly and other weird things will happen.) Download it for Mac OS X here:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

KatsinNuYork had posted that she tried the VLC player and it didn't work, so I decided to go the more expensive route and avoid weird things.

Moot point though now, just saw LJC has made a .AVI format version available and had no problems playing that on my mac.

thanks for the thought though !

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Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:47 PM

MERETEAN

I get: Address lookup of "ftp.hitechgadgets.net port 21" failed. It may be misspelled, or your computer may not be connected to the network or Internet.
Also check that your DNS and local name servers are properly configured and responding.

I am definitely on the internet and it's not misspelled since I pasted it from your mail.

But I have no idea what I should do to my DNS and local name servers.

Btw - I'm seeding HoG on http://www.tvtorrents.com/
I tried to seed The Message, but I can't get it to work. Will try again tomorrow.

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Monday, June 16, 2003 7:37 AM

MADDMATT

Would you consider making a divx encode from the originals? It'd be much smaller to download, and can be converted to svcd without a quality loss (as opposed to the other way around).

Either way, thanks a ton for getting these out there!

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Monday, June 16, 2003 8:00 AM

AMNON

Quote:
Originally posted by maddmatt:
Would you consider making a divx encode from the originals? It'd be much smaller to download/QUOTE]
The `Hello Cowgirl' site - http://versaphile.com/download/firefly.html - now has *all* episodes in relativly small RealMedia format.
If you don't want the hassle of RealPlayer, JetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/download/ - can play these files just fine.
Enjoy, and keep flying.

--
Too much of you is less of a balm.

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Monday, June 16, 2003 8:01 AM

SUCCATASH

Quote:
Originally posted by meretean:
I get: Address lookup of "ftp.hitechgadgets.net port 21" failed. It may be misspelled, or your computer may not be connected to the network or Internet.

Do not type "port 21". Just type ftp.hitechgadgets.net.

Port 21 is a different setting, usually in the Advanced options. Port 21 is usually default anyway, you probably don't have to worry about it.

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Monday, June 16, 2003 8:42 AM

MADDMATT

Quote:
Originally posted by Amnon:
Quote:
Originally posted by maddmatt:
Would you consider making a divx encode from the originals? It'd be much smaller to download/QUOTE]
The `Hello Cowgirl' site - http://versaphile.com/download/firefly.html - now has *all* episodes in relativly small RealMedia format.
If you don't want the hassle of RealPlayer, JetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/download/ - can play these files just fine.
Enjoy, and keep flying.

--
Too much of you is less of a balm.

Yeah I've seen those. Problem is that they were all made from the same svcd source. Divx from the original would be higher quality than divx converted from svcd.

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