Announcement

Tierra · January 24, 2005, 23:44

Nevermind, eco found the original DVD. We'll see if we can't work on it from there, and if not, we've got a couple other ideas of places to find it.

TheCotMan · January 25, 2005, 12:07

Originally posted by Tierra

Nevermind, eco found the original DVD. We'll see if we can't work on it from there, and if not, we've got a couple other ideas of places to find it.

Ok. Let me know if you change your mind. The video quality on this 4.8GB rip is very good. Also, the subtitles on the R0 version are not as good as the ones we worked on. There are 2 or 3 different DIVX Encoded AVI floating around on the internet that will work with our .sub files.

With the script, you can letterbox this PAL ratio to fit in an NTSC space with a black band at the bottom to allow the subtitles to mostly not cover the video.

alklloyd · February 12, 2005, 22:18

Hope ya'll figure this out. I would love to see this movie.

Al

TheCotMan · February 12, 2005, 22:40

Originally posted by alklloyd

Hope ya'll figure this out. I would love to see this movie.

Progress is very good. Tierra and I have been working through this. (BTW, IMO Tierra is pretty cool. :-)

Progress is fair.
Tierra now has a 5GB video that plays. (check)
What is left:

Re-index the subtitles to match the master 5GB file.
Provide the scripts I used to letterbox, subtitle, and convert PAL aspect ratio to NTSC and fps.
Tierra to inspect, modify and/or run the script for mencode of the video. (It takes about 1 to 3 hours to re-encode with this-- and that is on a pretty fast machine too.

The script is done. (Has been, just need to get it off a home machine and send it.)
The subtitles have not yet been re-indexed for the 5GB file because I suck and was not home this weekend like I planned. :-/

Siviak · February 14, 2005, 14:08

Originally posted by TheCotMan

... (BTW, IMO Tierra is pretty cool. :-)

eh.. he's getting there

Tierra · February 14, 2005, 23:12

Originally posted by Siviak

eh.. he's getting there

I'm glad I get to go through another year of Defcon watching you make a complete fool of yourself for the Scavenger Hunt. Now your just pushing me to start thinking up items more aimed at you doing them

Maybe we should have team captains and restrict some tasks to team captains only...

Originally posted by TheCotMan

Progress is very good. Tierra and I have been working through this. (BTW, IMO Tierra is pretty cool. :-)

Eco deserves a lot of credit on this as well. Most of the video work is most likely going to be done on his hardware since he's got the copies now. He was the one that coded up all of the movie channel script last year as well. He's more focused on the DCMC while I'm more focused on Scavenger Hunt, but we both work on both. That was also one of the factors that led to Leetest Link not being very organized since we were all working on other stuff. My talk last year barely pulled through as well with one of our speakers with the presentation material not showing, and me being sick with heat stroke from driving all over Vegas the Thursday before the con. Thankfully I got to look forward to watching Siviak pull some of the most crazy stunts every day of the con

TheCotMan · February 15, 2005, 12:21

Originally posted by Tierra

Eco deserves a lot of credit on this as well. Most of the video work is most likely going to be done on his hardware since he's got the copies now.

Yes, eco is great. eco provided me with a description of what kind of edge-loss would be expected for playing the video. (You can check out the script I made available to you for a comment I copied from eco in efnet where his edge-loss values are stated in percent to 3 sig figs. :-)

This allowed me to have the script (Tierra, you can check it out) to take an original PAL aspect ratio and resolution mpg, oversize a large letterbox around the whole frame to account for the edgeloss (black bands on all 4 sides) and still alter the aspect ratio, resolution and framerate to NTSC for broadcast TV, burn in and raise antialiased subtitles with high contrast background, and then re-encode the final stream to use Divx

Final size, ~1.6GB (from the original 5.05GB).

I'll look to upload some filler content (about 30 minutes worth) and scripts to convert those mpg to avi (totaling about 1.5GB) but it may take a week or two.

There are others who wanted to see 23 at DefCon. Alklloyd is only one of several people who expressed a desire to see this. Once it appears to work, why not announce it here? :-)

Thankfully I got to look forward to watching Siviak pull some of the most crazy stunts every day of the con

Siviak? Doing a crazy stunt? No way. That could never happen-- he is so quiet and is such a conformist.... ]:>

/me hides behind a rock to see Siviak's reaction to that comment.

Tierra · February 15, 2005, 15:06

Originally posted by TheCotMan

There are others who wanted to see 23 at DefCon. Alklloyd is only one of several people who expressed a desire to see this. Once it appears to work, why not announce it here? :-)

Yeah, we'll do that as soon as we know it works (hopefully should know in the next few days).

Siviak · February 15, 2005, 16:19

Originally posted by Tierra

Now your just pushing me to start thinking up items more aimed at you doing them

Maybe we should have team captains and restrict some tasks to team captains only...

my thoughts exactly.. and beings as I RETIRED LAST YEAR (as anyone that was at the awards presentation would know...) I have some great ideas thougth up just to see if anyone else out there is as willing to publicly humiliate themselves as I was for years.

Originally posted by TheCotMan

/me hides behind a rock to see Siviak's reaction to that comment.

oh.. .you'll get yours buddy... just you wait

hackajar · February 15, 2005, 17:10

I just finished hooking up tarabyte server for working on this kind of content and project. If you need somewhere to store/edit/work on dvd stuff let me know, I'll hook up an account.

Tierra · February 15, 2005, 22:53

Originally posted by hackajar

I just finished hooking up tarabyte server for working on this kind of content and project. If you need somewhere to store/edit/work on dvd stuff let me know, I'll hook up an account.

That's tempting, but where we have some decent machines to do video work already physically accessible, putting an internet connection in the way doesn't help much. I hope it doesn't come down to storage space... since you mention it, unless I clear off some of last years content, I don't have much storage space left for new content. I think I might have enough money to get a new drive anyway though pretty soon.

hackajar · February 15, 2005, 23:46

Originally posted by Tierra

I don't have much storage space left for new content. I think I might have enough money to get a new drive anyway though pretty soon.

I have 5meg pipe into my network (your upload, my download) let me know if you have storage needs. Also wouldn't hurt to have all that data locally :)

spec

4x 250g RAID 0
Gigabit Ethernet /w Jumbo Frames
40gig OS drive

Tierra · March 8, 2005, 18:18

I didn't want to start up a new thread on this, but did want to announce that 23 is now in the line-up for Defcon 13 Movie Channel. If there's anymore rare, hard to find, good movies you can think of that are worthy to be in the line-up as well, now is the time to mention them. Just don't do it in this thread, you can post up requests here:

http://forum.rootcompromise.org/forumdisplay.php?f=28

TheCotMan · March 8, 2005, 18:35

Originally posted by Tierra

I didn't want to start up a new thread on this, but did want to announce that 23 is now in the line-up for Defcon 13 Movie Channel.

Woohoo! You rock! I'll setup some custom filler made for DefCon next. :-)

Announcement

DefCon TV (Continued from other thread) -> 23

DefCon TV (Continued from other thread) -> 23

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