Welcome to the moviearchive discussion list. What's new? As of this evening (Friday, January 12th), the site now works with the Netscape browser. Thanks to...
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Peter Goed
petergoed@...
Jan 13, 2001 7:26 am
A couple of suggestions for the site 1. Put the size of the file with the time in the description. 2. Change it so the downloader gives you a chance to save it...
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Rick Prelinger
footage@...
Jan 13, 2001 7:44 am
Duly noted. We'll discuss these and do as much as possible as the site evolves. Many thanks, Rick ... Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archives...
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Rick Prelinger
footage@...
Jan 16, 2001 5:46 am
I'm curious whether anyone's playing the MPEG2 files on a Mac, and if so what players/tools/plug-ins that are using. Any reports, hints, experiences would be...
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Peter Goed
petergoed@...
Jan 16, 2001 7:44 am
I have not been playing MPEG2's on a Mac, but am in the process of doing something similar to your setup in Australia. Trying several output formats in regard...
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Brewster Kahle
brewster@...
Jan 16, 2001 1:41 pm
One of the motivating factors for choosing mpeg2 (and hopefully having a copy in mpeg4 soon as well) was to encourage public standards. This is not...
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footage@...
Jan 17, 2001 10:05 pm
... From: Chris Dwyer <dwyer@...> Subject:question Hi Rick, Again, thanks for the tip to your website. I was just wondering - I was under the...
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Rod Hewitt
rod@...
Jan 17, 2001 10:46 pm
The DVD software should play MPEG-2 files just fine. Open up your DVD software and find the File/Open option and point it at one of the files you've...
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David S. Rose
david@...
Jan 17, 2001 11:23 pm
Has anyone else had a problem downloading the movie files? I'm beginning to feel like an idiot, because no matter what I do, I get "site not found"... -David...
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Rod Hewitt
rod@...
Jan 18, 2001 12:29 am
A few suggestions: 1. There is a small problem with some of the URLs - for example "20831A.mpg" is incorrect - use "20831a.mpg" instead (lower case a). 2. Get...
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footage@...
Jan 18, 2001 1:06 am
Many thanks, Rod. David, can you keep us informed o your experiences? Rick Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archives / San Francisco, Calif., USA 415 750-0445 Please...
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Peter Goed
petergoed@...
Jan 18, 2001 7:58 am
Unfortunately I am really after a very good image at half screen size for the best possible compression and for that I have found Quick-Time to be the best....
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tomi knuutila
tomi.knuutila@...
Jan 18, 2001 12:40 pm
... You can get the mediaplayer to work by installing Elecard MPEG2 Player V1.17 from http://www.elecard.com. It costs $20 and plays the files itself but i...
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Rick Prelinger
footage@...
Jan 19, 2001 11:41 pm
I spoke with Apple's QuickTime marketing manager today and asked him about mpeg-2 playback on the Mac. He told me that this functionality has been vaguely...
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Cathy de Heer
cathy@...
Jan 20, 2001 12:55 am
Rick -- ... As far as I can tell, yes -- when I try to use my DVD player (on a PowerBook G3) to play a movie I've downloaded, nothing happens. ... Please...
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Rick Prelinger
footage@...
Jan 22, 2001 9:23 pm
I fixed a few bugs that caused some file requests to return a "file not found" error message. Please let me know if you experience any more errors of this...
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Carlos Salinas
csalinas@...
Jan 24, 2001 3:59 am
How do I play one of the movies on a Mac? (with and without spending money, preferably without) Carlos Salinas...
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Carlos Salinas
csalinas@...
Jan 24, 2001 3:59 am
Server "movie0.archive.org" no longer exists? All the movie links point to that: ping: unknown host movie.archive.org 'Los...
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Brewster Kahle
brewster@...
Jan 24, 2001 3:10 pm
Carlos, your ping has "movie.archive.org" not "movie0.archive.org" could you test that? we have gotten sporatic reports of this, but have not traced it down....
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Carlos Salinas
csalinas@...
Jan 24, 2001 5:34 pm
... Oops copy/pasted the wrong ping. Yeah I pinged just about everything including: [salica3:Documentation/Commands/cvs] csalinas% ping movie0.archive.org ...
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Carlos Salinas
csalinas@...
Jan 24, 2001 5:47 pm
Bother. Was a problem with my machine. Rebooted and works now: [salica3:~] csalinas% ping movie0.archive.org PING movie0.archive.org (209.247.40.93): 56 data...
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Rick Prelinger
footage@...
Jan 29, 2001 5:39 pm
... Delivered-To: footage@... Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:23:14 -0800 From: Adam Levine <levine@...> Reply-To: levine@... ...
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Rod Hewitt
rod@...
Jan 29, 2001 5:49 pm
He also emailed me and I told him to ask you :) This is at the film to video transfer stage - i.e. the progressive film material gets converted to interlaced...
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David S. Rose
david@...
Jan 29, 2001 5:58 pm
Rick, Unfortunately, I continue to have problems, whether I'm connecting from the office (T3, direct fibre, through Worldcom), or home (high-speed DSL, through...
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tomi knuutila
tomi.knuutila@...
Jan 29, 2001 6:38 pm
... i have succeeded to download 4 full films, others just stopped. many of my friends blame the same or can't even find the site or are not allowed to...
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erick@...
Jan 31, 2001 11:51 am
... Hi all, Just subscribed to this list and read through the old messages. I thought I'd report some limited success in converting the MPEG-2's on a Mac,...
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tomi knuutila
tomi.knuutila@...
Jan 31, 2001 12:24 pm
... Thanks for the info. How was the resolution? 480 x 480 which the qt player has to render full screen? I haven't tried the bbdemux yet, but it seems that...
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Rick Prelinger
footage@...
Jan 31, 2001 7:20 pm
This user isn't yet on the list -- has anyone gone this route to import/play files on the Mac? Many thanks Rick - - - - - - - - - - - Rick- OK, here's my...
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Erick Bryce Wong
erick@...
Jan 31, 2001 11:50 pm
... I'm fairly certain that MPEG-2 support is not yet available in QuickTime. The latest public beta is 5.0b8 which was released only two days ago, and it...
