Soul Music from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Type:
- Video > TV shows
- Files:
- 8
- Size:
- 1.98 GiB (2122717184 Bytes)
- Spoken language(s):
- English
- Uploaded:
- 2005-09-18 13:06:20 GMT
- By:
- northstah
- Seeders:
- 19
- Leechers:
- 2
- Comments
- 15
- Info Hash: 9B7453573ED4469A3BD615FD1A4790339BCF7B26
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Soul Msuic from Terry Pratchett's Discworld It's an animated version of the Terry Pratchett novel 'Soul Music'... Death is missing and a replacement is sought... It's my first Torrent... I hope everything works.
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theres somthing wrong,when i play it in winamp,i only get the sound,not the picture?? only the interwiew chapter works...
Where is the last episode!??!
Er, sorry, my files played in the wrong order. It was there all along! =/
7/10 quality
7/10 audio
god job on a first torrent
7/10 audio
god job on a first torrent
Great quality torrent, great program, perfect adaptation. I only have one critiscism; WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T THEY MAKE ANY MORE OF THESE!
I am seeding the balls out of this. Awesome series. .^. Get it while it is hot!
Thanks for this. Will seed.
Thanks a lot for this - haven't finished dload, so can't comment on quality, but am relying on the other +ve comments here. Does anybody have 'Wyrd Sisters'?
Sir_TankaLot at 2013-05-23 05:55 CET:
Big thx 4 this
Note that the upload date was 2005. It is encoded in the long-obsolete XVid format; it is therefore unreasonably large for the quality.
I would recommend downloading then re-encoding for storage, at least until a better torrent becomes available.
Everybody in the know uses MPEG4 layer 10 at the time of writing, also known as h264. Most people seem to encode with Handbrake, a fine piece of easy-to-use software that I credit for a marked improvement in both quality and compression ratio for the vast majority of videos uploaded these days.
The first file of the cartoon itself looks okay at a first glance, and I'll download the rest. But the interview is unwatchable and I'll stick with my VHS rip. There appear to be more artifacts and downright corruptions in the interview, than there are watchable frames of video.
I will of course re-encode it more efficiently, since my 6TB, though considered ample by many, would evaporate pretty quickly if I had a policy of keeping XVid.
It looks like I might have to recombine them into the original two parts as well. Hopefully a simple stream merge in MKVToolNix will be seamless; I do NOT want to muck around with tedious video trimming and re-encoding in After Effects!
I am not an uploader, so if you want a good copy, follow my hints and perhaps you can do the same as me. If you're unfamiliar with the free tools I mentioned, (Handbrake and MKVToolNix), then you should get familiar with them. You need them anyway. People without them are really not much better off than animals, or iPad lovers.
I would recommend downloading then re-encoding for storage, at least until a better torrent becomes available.
Everybody in the know uses MPEG4 layer 10 at the time of writing, also known as h264. Most people seem to encode with Handbrake, a fine piece of easy-to-use software that I credit for a marked improvement in both quality and compression ratio for the vast majority of videos uploaded these days.
The first file of the cartoon itself looks okay at a first glance, and I'll download the rest. But the interview is unwatchable and I'll stick with my VHS rip. There appear to be more artifacts and downright corruptions in the interview, than there are watchable frames of video.
I will of course re-encode it more efficiently, since my 6TB, though considered ample by many, would evaporate pretty quickly if I had a policy of keeping XVid.
It looks like I might have to recombine them into the original two parts as well. Hopefully a simple stream merge in MKVToolNix will be seamless; I do NOT want to muck around with tedious video trimming and re-encoding in After Effects!
I am not an uploader, so if you want a good copy, follow my hints and perhaps you can do the same as me. If you're unfamiliar with the free tools I mentioned, (Handbrake and MKVToolNix), then you should get familiar with them. You need them anyway. People without them are really not much better off than animals, or iPad lovers.
If the uploader has a DVD, consider re-encoding this at full resolution, as mp4, and by using mkv as the wrapper you even can include chapter and subtitle tracks. mkv is the only decent wrapper. In fact I hesitate to call the others wrappers at all.
Current resolution is 544x400. PAL resolution is 576 lines, not 400. Even NTSC is 480.
The only reason people are complimenting the quality is because the bitrate is through the roof, and therefore artifacts aren't generally visible. You could have full resolution for half the size or less, and still see no artifacts, if you use an mp4 video stream.
But please put it in an mkv wrapper, not an mp4 wrapper. I don't know why other wrappers restrict the number of video streams, don't allow subtitle streams and so on, but they don't. So don't use them. They don't deserve to be used.
In 2015 it's time to say that if anyone can't play mp4 or mkv files, it's THEIR problem. Why don't they have the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack? Even VLC users can play these files, and they're all stuck in 2002. They think they're clever because they can play some (but not all) .mov and .ram files! And their codecs aren't available to DirectShow! But they can play mp4 wrapped as mkv because they're not TOTAL idiots.
Current resolution is 544x400. PAL resolution is 576 lines, not 400. Even NTSC is 480.
The only reason people are complimenting the quality is because the bitrate is through the roof, and therefore artifacts aren't generally visible. You could have full resolution for half the size or less, and still see no artifacts, if you use an mp4 video stream.
But please put it in an mkv wrapper, not an mp4 wrapper. I don't know why other wrappers restrict the number of video streams, don't allow subtitle streams and so on, but they don't. So don't use them. They don't deserve to be used.
In 2015 it's time to say that if anyone can't play mp4 or mkv files, it's THEIR problem. Why don't they have the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack? Even VLC users can play these files, and they're all stuck in 2002. They think they're clever because they can play some (but not all) .mov and .ram files! And their codecs aren't available to DirectShow! But they can play mp4 wrapped as mkv because they're not TOTAL idiots.
Strike my comments about the interview quality. The file is fine when downloaded properly!
My other comments stand. XVid is inefficient, obsolete and generally gash! But anyone should be able to encode videos well, given my hints here. I hope it's useful.
Thankyou to the uploader for making available, at their own risk, something that otherwise doesn't seem to be out there. And thankyou for the quality, even if it is inefficient! I do realise you made this torrent in 2005, and in many of my comments I'm probably preaching to the converted.
I will take your reduced resolution over my grainy, colourless VHS rip! Who wants a desaturated cartoon, huh?
My other comments stand. XVid is inefficient, obsolete and generally gash! But anyone should be able to encode videos well, given my hints here. I hope it's useful.
Thankyou to the uploader for making available, at their own risk, something that otherwise doesn't seem to be out there. And thankyou for the quality, even if it is inefficient! I do realise you made this torrent in 2005, and in many of my comments I'm probably preaching to the converted.
I will take your reduced resolution over my grainy, colourless VHS rip! Who wants a desaturated cartoon, huh?
Okay so that last comment was too optimistic.
Actually I think I'd rather adjust the colour balance on my full size copy with curved lines, than watch this miniature, pixelated reminder of the cartoon!
Still, it was a close thing. Thanks to the uploader for the effort. It could be satisfactory for people without any other copy, and other copies are not easy to find.
Actually I think I'd rather adjust the colour balance on my full size copy with curved lines, than watch this miniature, pixelated reminder of the cartoon!
Still, it was a close thing. Thanks to the uploader for the effort. It could be satisfactory for people without any other copy, and other copies are not easy to find.
wesafin, you're funny!
"theres somthing wrong,when i play it in winamp..."
Yeah, there's something wrong alright!
Winamp is for Geiss 2.0, the best music visualisation. For this we install the 2.8 series of Winamp. No other version of Winamp should be installed on any computer for any reason. It's a crappy music player and crappier video player.
If you tell people there's a problem with a video file because you can't play it in Winamp, you will generally be ignored, and with good reason.
Go with K-Lite. It, just, works.
"theres somthing wrong,when i play it in winamp..."
Yeah, there's something wrong alright!
Winamp is for Geiss 2.0, the best music visualisation. For this we install the 2.8 series of Winamp. No other version of Winamp should be installed on any computer for any reason. It's a crappy music player and crappier video player.
If you tell people there's a problem with a video file because you can't play it in Winamp, you will generally be ignored, and with good reason.
Go with K-Lite. It, just, works.
I wish I could delete/edit stuff. Now I need to summarise just so people can find the relevant details:
Resolution is 544x400 (all pixelated, all the time)
Artifacts are not visible
Bitrate is an astonishingly high 1192Kbps
Format is the obsolete XVid, wrapper is the disgusting .avi. So obviously, there are no subtitle tracks or other such niceties.
This version has seven episodes, not the two that some of us are used to. Editing it down to two would not be easy, as all episodes include the theme tune.
I suspect that "It's my first Torrent..." really meant "first video encoding". It's an important difference.
Resolution is 544x400 (all pixelated, all the time)
Artifacts are not visible
Bitrate is an astonishingly high 1192Kbps
Format is the obsolete XVid, wrapper is the disgusting .avi. So obviously, there are no subtitle tracks or other such niceties.
This version has seven episodes, not the two that some of us are used to. Editing it down to two would not be easy, as all episodes include the theme tune.
I suspect that "It's my first Torrent..." really meant "first video encoding". It's an important difference.
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