Can anyone provide any links simular in content to the moviearchive, or any other URLs to downloadable movies [only complete movies, not trailers or...
Although not exactly "similar in content" to the movie archive (depending on how you define similar), in case it helps with access, Informedia has contributed...
Hi all. I'm new to the list. I have enjoyed the films in the archive a lot. What a great resource! I looked in all of the FAQ's and in the list archive, but...
stay tuned for a blast of micro-info... The data in the film descriptions is exported from the Prelinger Archives database. We currently use about a dozen...
I have a whole stack of CD-R's with movie files since my hard drive can't possibly store more than a few movies at one time. Is there a utility program to...
David Massey
bellsys@...
Jan 3, 2002 5:45 am
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Making files larger than 700 meg is going to make things very difficult for students at my university. ... From: Rick Prelinger [mailto:footage@...] ...
Mark Milliorn
milliorn@...
Jan 3, 2002 6:11 am
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Right now the .mpg files consume about 27MB/minute of running time at 3.5 Mbps. Somewhere around 1,350 Prelinger films and film segments will ultimately be...
DVD technology is getting cheaper so perhaps the large files won't be an issue once DVD recorders are as cheap in the near future as CD-R recorders are today. ...
David Massey
bellsys@...
Jan 3, 2002 6:26 am
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Neither my lab or my students need all the files, but they do need a way to store the files they need on a CD. I guess I could find some way to split them... ...
Mark Milliorn
milliorn@...
Jan 3, 2002 8:09 am
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I'm sorry to hear the numbers are dissapearing. They make things easier for me. I personally think "selfpres.mpg" is not very clear. If you want filenames that...
Bert Reuling
bert@...
Jan 3, 2002 8:34 am
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I've been running SPHINX III speech recognition over some of the movies in the archive. After doing adaptation via MLLR the results are reasonable, in some...
Houghton, Ricky
rhoughton@...
Jan 3, 2002 2:47 pm
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I tend to agree, an arbitrary numbering system, it seems, would be more useful (along with a reference index) than trying to suss out someting meaningful from...
David Van Virden
ilovejpegs@...
Jan 3, 2002 6:23 pm
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If the files are larger, I assume the moviearchive would not object to the users/fans lowering the quality a bit and distributing to those interested? --Joey...
... I agree with others that trying to use an 8.3 naming scheme for your thousands of files will create names that will eventually be useless for remembering...
Adam Wells
awells@...
Jan 3, 2002 6:43 pm
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We had a problem with long filenames when we were burning CDs and transferring files that way. Somewhere along the way longer filenames got truncated, and we...
dear moviearchivists, does anybody know a good software to burn Video CDs with G4 Macs. - similar to NERO for PC's? cheers holger ...
studio 8
holgermohaupt@...
Jan 3, 2002 6:59 pm
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... Toast 5 Titanium is what I use. When you install it, it installs a QuickTime component that allows you to either export from iMovie to VCD-ready MPEG-1,...
Adam Wells
awells@...
Jan 3, 2002 7:10 pm
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If possible, burn your VCDs via Toast on CD-RWs -- you will increase your chances of it playing on a broader range of DVD players *A LOT* Also, I have never...
David Van Virden
ilovejpegs@...
Jan 3, 2002 7:20 pm
578
... Is it even possible to have menus with VCDs? I have several commercially-produced VCDs, and none of them have DVD-style menus either. It just isn't part...
Adam Wells
awells@...
Jan 3, 2002 7:35 pm
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Dear Ricky, Great idea! Is your code available for non-commercial use? My six year old boy Leon can't read fluently, but he can talk, so I'd like to give him...
setz@...
Jan 3, 2002 7:53 pm
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... <snip> ... That's also what I do. David...
David Massey
bellsys@...
Jan 4, 2002 12:33 am
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Hi Folks, What's the status of the downloads? It seems there is still a problem with MPEGs. Feedback welcome, Marcus...
The website has not been updated, but the status of the ftp site is as follows: * we believe the mpeg-2's are all working fine (if this is not true, please...
Hi Brewster, I just tried downloading a couple of mpeg 2 files from the http://ftp.archive.org/movies site. Unfortunately they both gave me the same "corrupt...
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