Prince, NEW UPLOAD, Musicology Philly 2004, DVD quality, including The Time

[aasami05]

Thank you, Easter Bunny!!!
BOK! BOK!

Prost!

[PhilBoogie]

I know a lot of people prefer DVD over mp4/avi/mkv. Those who understand what a container is, understand how a DVD is structured, what pixels size means etcetera will come to the same conclusion that if you rip a DVD properly, by not transcoding but merely ripping out the MPEG stream I get a .mp4 on my HDD that, for me, has advantages over a DVD.

Discs are dead. Apple is dropping the drives model by model, just like they did with floppies. In my opinion, discs should leave asap. The DVD is the most stupid invention I have seen in tech. Forcing people to watch FBI warnings, mandatory to choose a language and such doesn't make it an enticing medium for me.

I am in the process of ripping all my DVD's to HDD. Bought a MacMini that sits underneath my TV, I can see my entire Prince collection from the couch - no fiddling with discs.

Of course, to each his own. But sorry - I won't be uploading the whole 6.5GB as the .mp4 is an exact copy of the MPEG stream on the DVD, coming in at 2.5GB. You can of course test this yourself and compare.

Cheers,
PhilBoogie

[pengedragon]

pretty much agree with all of that pb

can i ask what tool you used for this job ? its something i keep meaning to do for myself

[PhilBoogie]

I use the free/open source Handbrake (Mac/Win/Fedora/Ubuntu) since it has the options I wanted: add files to a cue (so you can do other things while its running all day/all night) and it is multi-threaded/64-bit (which for tasks like these is a must have.

http://handbrake.fr/

Cheers,
PhilBoogie

[pengedragon]

thank you sir, i have that. shall give it a try

[joint2joint]

thanks Phil

[SilverTongue20Eleven]

Hi Philboogie: I downloaded your files but once I had all three rar files winrar would not open them??? can you please give advice??

cheers
ST

[SilverTongue20Eleven]

philgoogie I downloaded your files but once I had all three rar files winrar woulf not open them, could you please advise?

[Makeitso]

Thanks, PB, 4 the information. Really didn't know that.

And, as I will B downloading in a few moments: Thanks 4 the upload!

[Makeitso]

Part 1 is .rar, part 2 .zip.

That how it's supposed 2 B?

[PhilBoogie]

My bad, though it doesn't matter, once decompressed U'll have the 2h18m30s show, around 2.7GB.

Cheers,
PhilBoogie

[Makeitso]

Thanks 4 the info. So I'll try again, 1st try didn't work.

[PhilBoogie]

Let us know if it doesn't please. Makes me think that I probably should download it myself after uploading but B4 sharing.

Cheers,
PhilBoogie

[Makeitso]

Part 1 is on my HDD now, part 2 is downloading, but only after 2 or 3 trys.

Thanks again 4 Ur effort!

[pengedragon]

it was a slightly odd one to unpack but its fine, and the file looks great

thanks again !