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Skriven 2007-02-07 12:01:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
     Kommentar till en text av ROBERT BASHE
Ärende: Re: Beware
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-=> ROBERT BASHE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RB> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ALL on Wednesday February 07 2007 at 07:35:

 WC> I recently attempted to download and play the movie Cyrano De Bergerac
 WC> from www.archive.org

 WC> It is encrypted :-(

 RB> Apparently not.


did you download the bighonking 256kb MP4?

That is the one I got dialup.
Several of the comments say it doesn't play.
Mplayer in Linux says it is encrpted.

 WC> But I guess the movie is not public domain?

 RB> That's what the website claims.

Must be true than.
Linux always lies with the -v -v -v options

 RB> But they certainly have some weird formats: MPEG4 with two stream
 RB> volumes, MPEG1 (who uses _that_ for films nowadays?) and MPEG2 (the

Not I.
Did you see the size of that sucker?

 RB> format generally used for DVDs, but look at the size - 4.5 GB!!! No way
 RB> you can do much with that, anything above 2 GB gives problems. That's
 RB> why they cut DVDs into smaller sections.

Well, I _could_ get it dialup.
I'd just setup a cron job and watch it sometime around Christmas when it
arrives.

 RB> You might take the MPEG2 version and try to convert it to an AVI with
 RB> VirtualDub - except you need at least Windows 2000 for that.

I don't do Windows.

 RB> You might be able to do something with stuff like this if you were
 RB> running Windows with the corresponding tools, but with Linux you've
 RB> unfortunately got bad cards.

Yeah.
What a piece of real crud Linux is playing movie DVDs on a Pentium III
450 MHz.
Windoze won't even *try* that.

 RB> Unless naturally someone has ported VirtualDub to Linux. Any offers?

Next week try me.
I have to learn FORTRAN and reverse compile the Lynx text based browser
to eliminate  the cruddy annoying next page prompt.

It's free so I can't complain too overmuch it does everything.
Nor does it get infected with the Melma trojan nor any of those other
nasties and Windoze features.

 RB> Incidently, to the purists: I know Linux is 10000000000000% better than
 RB> anything from Redmond, but just show me VirtualDub for Linux and we'll
 RB> talk again.

I think that I may have already learned all you have to instruct.

... Now offending people across internatioonal borders, again! or is it still?
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