Thanks, YouTube ... using technology for obfuscation. I came across a YouTube "blocked in your country" message. But WHERE a video is actually restricted? Nope, they ain't sayin'. Ha! Who needs'em! Just use this -- https://unblockvideos.com/youtube-video-...n-checker/

It is useless for it unfortunately.

Hmm ... I wonder if this article, from a few months ago, is any indication? "Intel drags Xeon Phi Knights Hill chips out back... two shots heard" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/16...ghts_hill/ "To recap the Xeon Phi line: it's not for your common or garden server, workstation or desktop. It's aimed at supercomputer gear with machine code instructions to dash through operations on matrices and other blobs of data at high speed in parallel."

Has anyone tried using a Xeon Phi coprocessor for video editing?

10 hours to go!

47 hours to go to back the book project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120...-early-ci/

^ ^ Cool tools ... and so retro! http://www.swftools.org/flash/Matrix.swf . .

Yay! In 2 hours I am sitting in a train to Frankfurt Airport.... VACATIONS!!!

^^ Apparently swftools can extract video from .swf files

How about converting it (with something like "SWF to MP4 Converter" - https://convertio.co/swf-mp4/ , or some downloadable software if you prefer to keep it offline)?

The .swf file in question is video, not vector animation. I have the files locally on my hard drive.

@ poita -- If the above-mentioned Allavsoft downloader can't find the embedded link to download from a page (and it did work well catching ABC's vid), they switch to their resizeable, video/audio screen-capture mode and grab it as it's playing. I tested that on a YouTube video segment and it worked. Haven't tried a 1080p showing as fullscreen yet. Definitely grab the "5-download trial version" and test it for you use and then, maybe, get it on sale (I think 2 days remain). That should easily catch any .SWF "media" as a working video.

Definitely upgrade the 4kVideoDownloader. They must keep updating it to keep it operational as YouTube transitions, whereas 2 add-ons I used have moved on to the new FF version/engine and are no longer updating their previous add-ons, which are mostly useless now. The online downloaders are fine for resolutions @ 720p and under, but you must use their apps and/or subscribe to go higher (if higher resolutions exist).

@BronzeTitan as for the plugin I recommended, I had to basically wait till it had downloaded the whole video in that pop up box (using Vivaldi, a chromium-based browser) and then I was asked to save it. So I needed to keep the webpage open until it was downloaded before I was even asked where to save it ... it's not solved perfectly

Specifically, if the swf file contains vector animation, you can guess that remuxing it is not really possible, though converting it to something more "usable" may be

@poita Maybe in a limited number of cases that is theoretically possible, when a normal video is somehow embedded in the swf file. But an swf file generally consists of a variety of things, including graphics, simple or complex programming, vector animations, etc,none of which are compatible with traditional containers I know of, though there are tools to reverse engineer swf files and extract some of the programming and resources (like images/graphics or whatever). Typically videos aren't embedded in swf files, but loaded as separate .flv files, which can be remuxed without problems. But I would say, as a general rule, it depends on the swf file you have.

Yeah I also have problems with Youtube lately. I use 4K video downloader, but an older version., maybe I need to upgrade

Can you remux a .swf file?

Of late, I been having problems with YouTube changing their video delivery and Firefox's YT downloading addons not keeping up. In the newer & changed versions of FF, they may work, but other add-ons that only work in the previous FF versions are not ones I wish to abandon. So, not to leave well enough alone, I kept looking and came across a free, stand-alone YouTube downloader (which can fill the FF-addon gap): 4k Video Downloader https://www.4kdownload.com . Works well, like the old ones used to.

Thanks! ... only it didn't work (at all) even though Firefox (this version 51) accepted it. Tried some DL sites ("save"-this, "keep"-that, blah-blah) but only one could even find it. That one saved ... a 360p .MP4 video. BUT, with all the searching around, I came across a stand-alone downloader (free trial or on sale $12) Allavsoft http://www.allavsoft.com . It DL'ed the 720p 600mb file from ABC (I poked around and extracted the video link -- https://abcnews.go.com/video/embed?id=53204229) in it's original .MP4 format, of course.

You can use Flash Video Downloader to grab it, then remux it (shrinking it from a 600MB ts format to a 500MB mkv or so). Audio is AAC

Thanks! Is there an easy way to save this? (I'm not getting the sound when watching it. Some magic codec needed?)

For those who haven't seen it:

I think it's to pay his artist Marlene Weisman to do the illustrations, the "proposed cover" is likely a rough prototye that Marlene provided for him.

What I get from reading the kickstarter is that the money taken in goes to create the cover of the book? Maybe they have commisioned someone to do it and need the extra cash to pay them so the print can be released for publishing said book?

"Chrome" is a dirt word in my house

You may also try these plugins, depending on your browser: Chrome or Firefox

spoRv: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017...ch-results

Try right-clicking

Have you noted that from yesterday, is not possible to see images directly into google image searching anymore? You got to visit the website each time...

Did some of you back the kickstarter because it passed its goal today? Still plenty of time if you want to jump onboard, should be an interesting book!

For anyone interested in film history this may be worth backing: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120...-early-ci/

I do remember hearing some stories like that as well about the buzzing and such ... long live Block Buster Video ... lol.

IIRC, there were some early copy protection schemes (pre macrovision) that didn't play nice with certain brands of VCR's, even when connected straight to a tv. One could get buzzing in the audio sometimes.May have been a side effect not intentional. Used to drive me nuts when I would take a rental back to the store and it played perfectly on whatever they were using. I suspect to this day they had one of those little black video stabalizer boxes installed just to avoid givng refunds. Cheap bastards!

It was always video only Macrovision as far as I'm aware.

Also, after some searching the web, also no evidence that there where any audio stream based copy protection on VHS. Also no hint that macro vision would temper the audio...

Thanks

I never read anything regarding messing with the audio on VHS...

Hey guys, quick question: are there any known VHS copy protection methods that interfere with audio? I know that different flavors of Macrovision messed up with video, changing it's brightness and color, but none of those ever did anything to the audio signal, right?

Oh... BTW: I ripped it... And that final stream has said problems on a 7. Gen i7 dual core NUC system with 32gb ram...

I see the video, but it has digital errors... Both with AnyDVD and powerdvd 16 or 17...the newer one..

You should rip it first and just play the main feature. You have to use one of VLC dev versions not the current one check out the dev page

Mhm... Okay, seems as if my PC has problems to decrypt a uhd BD... But at least I got no error putting the disc in, and try to play it on a definitive not new enough PC to start a uhd BD at all...

Thanks, Bronze.

Hope that gets straightened out wihtout too much trouble. Coincidentally, FanRes did a "shut down" just a little while ago but it's back up now (obviously). The gods enjoy their entertainment.

Bad news: a fiber cut knocked me offline just a few hours ago, and I don't know when I'll be back online (even as we speak, I'm forced to use a cell phone to type all this), so I don't know when I'll be able to get out my test release. But I will try to get it out there as soon as I can.

I am just trying to get the UHD BD of Terminator 2 from my UHD BD to my HDD, just to check if my PC is capable of Playing 4K (on a HD TV)... finger crossed... Would love to check the colors on the 4K...

Someone turn down the volume on their copy?

That line was never cut lol someone says so below on the page

[from the same site] - "I still don't buy that [false memory theory]. I've seen movies that have had bits cut out from soon after the initial release (for instance, in the 1980s Batman, the Joker's "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" was soon cut to "Get those wonderful toys.") It was a long time from when I saw the movie until I could read the book, if I ever read it."

Funny! Never noticed that! (Then again, there's no trusting George Lucas and his CG revisionism.) Okay ... now show me Luke throwing his grappling-hook twice! -- "I saw Staw Wars 7 times in the first week, and several times thereafter. I saw Luke throw and miss. Don't tell me I dreamed it, or got it from another source -- I didn't read the novelization. My college friends and I discussed it after one of those 7 viewings and we all wondered why, while Luke was messing with the rope, that the stormtroopers didn't just shoot under the door." - https://movies.stackexchange.com/questio...edited-out

Obi-Wan's Reaction to Han's I've made a lot of special modifications myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...1WkXxWoGiI

Chris Solo, paging Chris Solo, your party is waiting for you at the service desk. Please pick up any service phone near your location. Chris Solo, your party has arrived and is looking to communicate with you. That is all. [I am just kidding of course.]

Nah. But I do seen the latest solo tv spot from the super bowl though.

Has anybody been in touch with Chris Solo lately? I know he's been on recently, but I'm not getting any replies to PM's...

Those are brilliant, Valeyard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdf2tqSy2zc ...and IT a Magic Family Movie..

I never realised that Silence of the Lambs is a romance comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCoTiU0S85Y I nearly lost it when the "bars couldn't keep them apart" caption popped up!

I am so cynical!

Yeah... But that summer moment was perfect... Too bad I sat in an office working...

on a Wednesday morning, from 10:32 to 11:47, more or less!

... At least in Germany that was the case...

Meteorologists are sure: Summer 2017 was on a Wednesday...

Long winter.

Another funny theory would be that some factories with big chimneys are used as "low earth aeorsol evaporators"

Enough fun of that topic... It's funny that people really believe in such things... Seriously... Next step of this Chemtrail theory would be that clouds are infumed with something like "aeorsolbombs" as "large scale Chem transports" And that just because the flight traffic got that much more in the last decades, that the effect occurs more often that a contrails has the optimum of surrounding not to fade away, but to Form some cloud.

As a veteran I received all sorts of shots on my entry to the military. I don't get vaccinated regularly either so if there is some sort of long outcome cocktail being created I'm screwing it up, lol.

I got mine.

P.S. Be sure to watch the inserted Ground-Zero-Lougue YouTube video: "Chemtrails With Flu Virus - Clyde Lewis Ground Zero Lounge 1-27-18"

With the big push of "flu shots", has everyone gotten their's? Or maybe you shouldn't (notice my great segue of related subjects). "Ground Zero: Shots In The Dark" http://www.groundzeromedia.org/1-31-18-shots-dark/

Glad to hear that ... it's a load off my shoulders. (BTW, use the "E" by the date to edit a shout.)

behalve = behave

The stop memos were send out.. I did that myself.. problem: water does not want to stop its behalve of being kind of an anomality regarding temperatures...

Those government bureacrasies ...

I guess the governments didn't send out the stop memos yet ... Jan 4 2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESn14T2PAHY

Ah.. somehow I thought that might be the case.. but I was to lazy to google that myself....

I beg your pardons ... "rust"?!? -- "Why does bronze not rust?" https://www.quora.com/Why-does-bronze-not-rust -- We bronze "corrode".

Regarding Politics: Yeah, that was very "political" if not a "political mother of political discussion" that I did not even needed to name a specific political party, person or even institution, to let everyone know that it was so political, that it gain a level of hyperpoliticalisation...

Regarding the spelling: I am not a native english speaker at all, and my grades in the school subject "English" always were, lets say, "at the bottom of the pit". (Compare it to "D" - "E" for US grading system)

Politics and spelling!

Isn't it awfull unfair how goverments and big cons put all that salt into the oeceans, to prevent people from drinking water out of them, and having to buy fresh, bottled water at horrendous prices?

As do humid air and salt water...

BronzeTitan has every right to be concerned about chemtrails, they cause premature rusting

...but do not tell the chemtrail conspiracy theorists... they would go ragous on the true nature of that effect, if they just would know...

Pst BT: The goverments have stopped the chemtrail projects, because the studies showed that they provide no results at all...

Whenever I look towards the skies (and I'm very tall and have to duck not to hit my big bronze head) I almost always see these http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/news...59/e79.jpg chemtrails, which results in this https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/tra...jpg.12065/ ! So I missed that blue (red?) moon.

It was even a super blood moon, but no blue moon.

Few years ago there was a blood moon visible in Germany... I was out on a field at 4 o'clock, it was cold... But it was a great experience. Never saw anything like that in reality...

Just got back from watching the Super Blue Blood Moon, and what a sight it was! As an added bonus, I also got to watch the sun rise. May not have been a total lunar eclipse from where I was standing, but it was the best I could see here.

I have a good view of the Lunar Eclipse

Maybe you should start to announce, and start on, a new project after another project is finished. That way you won't pollute your pipeline to the point you are standing in front of a big brick wall of projects, and you find yourself not getting the breath to work on one project straight through.

Well, I managed to find a 24fps source for another Saturday morning cartoon restoration I might announce sometime this year, but I won't announce it for sure until I can verify that it's the best source available.

I can't tell you, it could be any book this early in the year.

What's the most anticipated book of the year?

Go through Amazon's customer service system to file a complaint. They'll get that ball rolling.

Needless to say, that Amazon seller, SarahBookStore, is on my blacklist, and should be on everyone else's, too. I'm sick and tired of these scammers in sellers' clothing.

This is the first time I've dealt with a con artist on an online bookstore. I'm steamed...