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Post by Amasov on Jun 11, 2005 22:37:31 GMT
Has anyone tried watching it on their computers DVD drive, I know I've had one or two DVD's that were jerky on my normal DVD player but worked fine on my computer.
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Post by David Faltskog on Jun 11, 2005 22:57:17 GMT
Lord of the Rings : Return of the King was well over three hours long and that was on 1 DVD, certainly don't recall any jerkiness in that movie. D.F.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Jun 11, 2005 23:09:06 GMT
Debbie Does Dallas... That wasn't three hours long, but there was quite a bit of jerkiness in that... Or so I've been told.
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Post by timeship2 on Jun 11, 2005 23:19:55 GMT
First off, to answer Timeship's question. Yes my copy of the DVD has the same jerkiness everyone has commented on. I don't know much about how data is encoded on DVD's, but it seems to me that long movies such as this one usually come on 2 dvd's. (Lord of the Rings comes to mind) Is it possible that to fit 3 hours onto a single DVD the only way is to accept some jerkiness? Does someone know enough technical information to enlighten us? My 14 year old son and I watched the first half of the movie last night. He seems quite interested in it. (I think one of his comments was "This is an OK movie" or something like that. I had to hide it from him so we could watch the rest together tonight. I'll keep you posted on his reactions. Nope, the amount of compression has nothing to do with the jerkiness. That's caused by something else. One way this effect can happen, is when doing video captures on a PC, where the video capture and sound card can't quite keep in sync and you get too many dropped frames. The resulting playback can exhibit the same effect. All that happens if you compress a longer movie than would be normally done is that you have to reduce the data rate of the video to accommodate this, which in turn means that there is less bandwidth for the data. If you do this to far, then the there is a noticeable quality drop in that the image starts to look blocky. I have managed to compress whole movies onto a Video CD that still look pretty good. Of course we're talking 90 minute average movies here, not 3 hours, though those should easily fit on a DVD. A standard Video CD normally only has room for 70 minutes, but I have managed to make non standard ones which contain the whole movie that usually still play on a decent forgiving DVD player and look quite good too.
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Post by timeship2 on Jun 12, 2005 0:16:06 GMT
Has anyone tried watching it on their computers DVD drive, I know I've had one or two DVD's that were jerky on my normal DVD player but worked fine on my computer. You know it never occurred to me to try until you posted this. I put it into my laptop and sure enough it does seem much smoother. Also, when I get around to it, I need to see if my cheaper APEX dvd player will play it any smoother as well since often that will cope with odd DVD's much better than my Panasonic.
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bomarc
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Post by bomarc on Jun 14, 2005 4:55:29 GMT
So far it has not been released in Canada yet.
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Post by Gnorn on Jun 16, 2005 14:26:53 GMT
I ordered it on Amazon yesterday. Now I have to find a way to watch it over here. I'm gonna try and hack my DVD player...
-Gnorn
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Post by Thunder Child on Jun 16, 2005 20:34:42 GMT
Hey Gnorn,
I've got a email from amazon telling me that the movie was send to me on the 14th.
Hope it arrives soon and I can judge it myself.
I keep you informed.
Johan
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