On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:20:51 -0500, * wrote:
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> On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:12:35 +1000, John Smith wrote:
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>> I was greatly looking forward to cotds. Unfortunately when played with
>> GOM the 1 gig 24 minute mkv first episode is extremely jerky.
>>
>> John
>
> I'm sorry I do not know what GOM stands for.
> Does it mean "Grand Ole Monopoly" ??? ;)
>
> Does your player have a setting that will "preload mkv files"
> or some other such setting?
>
> Anyway, I imagine it might be two possibilities:
>
> (1) the DVD itself is in PAL format, and the mkv software
> simply is copying the DVD tracks straight to the mkv files.
> (We frown greatly upon any recoding at all whatsoever.)
> (Read the NFOs for why this is so, and prepare for doing
> research on long-ago discussions in other groups.
> BTW simple remuxing [stuffing into another container
> etc.] is ok with us, but we still need a method to try
> thwarting the *AA folks, meaning no "dvd images" nor
> "vob files" and such.)
>
> (2) The first episode does have a noticable glitch burned-in near
> the end of that episode -- it's seen/heard as a ~1-second delay of
> the audio there, right as Mr Jones is talking thru Rachel's bedroom
> patio sliding glass door. I have two copies of this title, from two
> different vendors from "down-under", and both copies exhibit this
> exact same anomaly, even while watching from a standalone DVD
> player (designed for both NTSC and PAL playback). But this
> glitch in the mkv file does not cause anything I use for
> testing/playing to become jerky as you say.
oops --
I was describing the first ep for UtM (Under the Mountain) there
(which btw is in NTSC format).
I just watched the first mkv ep of CotDS (PAL) with VLC here,
everything on it looked & sounded good here.
A third thing to check is to be sure the par2 checksums match,
let it do any repairs as needed, y'know the usual usenet things,
etc.
> Anyway, further information are in the associated NFO files (which
> are there for a very important reason). I can't possibly be testing
> every app ever made under the sun, and I forbid myself to ever use
> any system involved with the m$ scheme (which might be what you are
> using, I honestly don't know), sorry. But we /are/ trying to adopt
> new standards that are already widely accepted, ISTM.
>
> And I should explain: We've directed the "Followup-To" to go
> to the alt.fan.dvd group. Too much to digress-into to explain
> why I've selected that group for discussing our postings.
> Basically, no-one has joined our initial thread on a.f.t.i's,
> there are mounds of filthy fishy pr0n in our usual binary group,
> and we want to use groups that are widely carried by most
> usenet providers worldwide, etc. This means I must hush-up on
> the usual t-i banter.<g>
>
> p.s. my email addy works after minor de-obfuscation of the Reply-To field.
>
>
> :)
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