Nanner Split

Ever since I got to try Konig Ludwig Dunkel when I was in germany I flip out whenever i manage to find it stateside. nectar of the gods indeed

why did i make this thread
i don’t even like football
mods pls delete

analog said:

...wonder what ever happened to nanner split's efforts... last I heard, there were delays, then all ready to rock, then nothing...

reality is an illusion and nothing matters, go watch some fucking anime or something

if all atheists had signatures as ugly as mine this forum would be a better place

The worst thing about being an atheist in the current day is that it seems like all the prominent atheists that go on tv (richard dawkins, sam harris, etc) are all awful in some way or other

TV's Frink said:

why your signature

why did he leave

Alderaan94 said:

Hello¡ I have the Despecialized in DVD, and i don´t know if this DVD can fit in a Blu-Ray case to put the covers on these. Does Anybody know something about it?

Hello all, apologies for semi-vanishing, been quite busy with work over the last few weeks (I do lots of A/V work from home so i'm sure some of you know how long those things can take). I believe the only thing I'm waiting on is Harmy's intro video and menu background video, otherwise i'm just tinkering with re-encoding some of the supplementary audio tracks at lower rates until everything fits within the data rate allotment. I'll be sure to let you guys know if that still causes problems and then we can figure out what to cut, if anything at all. <3

edit: Harmy, for the intro and menu videos, you can either have them as two separate video files or just one and if you tell me the timecode of where you want the loop point/menu appearance point to be i can just set a chapter point there and have it loop back on the chapter point, either one works.

EyeShotFirst said:

Yeah what Stevie did wasn't terribly complicated, but he did such a good job at it, that it looks and sounds insane. The guy had hands that could crush skulls. He used suspension cables as strings, and bent the living crap out of them. I don't think there is a better blues tone, maybe 70's Ry Cooder, but still Stevie had so much more going on.

Brian Setzer said:

First of all, Stevie Ray was magic. It's funny because people always want to know about his guitars and his amps but what I want to tell you is that it was in his fingers. It had nothing to do with his guitar and amp. I think he could have been playing a Silvertone guitar through a transistor radio. That night at "Mud Island" in Memphis I was watching him from the side and he called me up onstage. He handed me his guitar and he said, "Play!". I didn't know what to expect. I thought it would be really loud and just, you know, all over the stage. It wasn't though, it was about as loud as I set my guitars. It even kind of sounded like mine. I was so surprised. He stood there in front of the pedal board with his arms crossed just hitting different pedals. At that moment I realized...jeez, it's all about what's in this guy's fingers. What can I say? He was one of the truly great guitar players. We never played together at the same time, but I'll never forget that night.

Devo are my favorite band of all time, and have been for some time.

"Wait, the guys who played 'Whip It'?"

Let me explain.

Devo were a group of punk weirdos ahead of their time. The seeds were planted on May 4th, 1970, when they were students at Kent State University and witnessed the shooting first-hand. It permanently warped their worldview. In their opinion, humanity wasn't moving forward, but backward: not evolution, but DE-VOlution. Far away from the "cultural centers" of the punk and new wave movements in New York and California, they stewed in their own juices for nearly a decade in the suburbs of Akron, Ohio, before their demo tape was discovered by Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Bowie called them "the band of the future". Iggy said he "felt like Christopher Columbus". Their first album was unleashed on the world in August 1978.

And it FUCKING. RULED.


"Uncontrollable Urge", the opening track off their first album.

Their albums increasingly became more synth-heavy, more pop-oriented, still subversive and weird but less openly confrontational. They've been going through a bit of a resurgence lately after re-issuing a collection of basement demos from before they got a record deal, which display just what a pissed off proto-punk group they really were:

"Fountain of Filth", from Hardcore Devo Vol. 2

Unique, twisted, original. ARE WE NOT MEN? WE ARE DEVO!

"Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA" Live, my favorite performance of my favorite Devo song

At least Macrovision is optional. AACS is built in to the format by default (and the licensing fee is built in to the cost of replication too).

Warbler said:

 the Marx Brothers

DuracellEnergizer said:

Seeing as I like many genres and subgenres of music from various different eras, this shouldn't be a issue with me if the artists in question have something going for them beyond having a nice voice.

Danfun128 said:
I wanted HD DVD to win because it was less strict copyright wise, but it doesn't matter now :P

Possessed said:

You actually play on a NES?  Amazing.  Mine quit working ages ago.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Puchased/Downloaded LucasArts' Indiana Jones game from GOG. Somehow I never got round to playing it back in the day, so hopefully I'm in for a treat.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I admit Gaga's got an excellent voice. That doesn't change the fact that she's just a cog in the soulless machine that is the modern mainstream music industry.

And just to get back on track with the Doors ...

<a href="http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-become-a-Doors-Fan/topic/14678/" target="_blank" title="originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-become-a-Doors-Fan/topic/14678/">http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-become-a-Doors-Fan/topic/14678/</a>

[quote=stretch009]

 'Echoes' from Meddle is great but other than that I think the album preceding Dark Side 'Obscured by Clouds' is better and displays even more of what you would eventually hear on Dark Side.

TV's Frink said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock

Though I think of it primarily as 70's rock, not as much 60's and especially not 80's.

yoda-sama said:

 I like and appreciate a Blu-ray popup menu as much as the next guy, and would like to see it included, but I think a menu that comes up before the movie starts would fit what I think Harmy is aiming for better (and I think is what is actually being discussed anyway).  If someone wants to nostalgically view Star Wars in the original Klingon, it would be a bit of a disservice to force them to fumble through options in a popup menu as the opening text is already flying by and the Blockade Runner and Star Destroyer are on their way.

Update:

Asked a designer buddy of mine for some tweaks, and apart from the "selected button" and "activated button" highlights (which aren't on there because I haven't gotten to them yet) I'd say this is a pretty solid final design. What do you guys think?



(Full size)

Ideally, yes, this would be uploaded as a .iso for anyone to burn.

As for authoring Blu-Rays yourself, here's the predicament: there is a lot of **DVD authoring** software (Adobe Encore, DVD Architect Pro, etc) that also includes Blu Ray capabilities, but pretty much all of them are essentially dressed-up DVD authoring tools and aren't capable of handling tasks as complex as Blu Ray is capable of (or in some cases, requires). Now doing simple blu rays at home, that's fine, although none of them can handle as many audio/subtitle options as this beast has, so there's that.

Basically right now your only options for pro-level BR authoring software are:
-DoStudio Indie ($3,000)
-DoStudio EX ($5,000)
-Sony Blu Print (~$50,000) (yes you read that right)
-Scenarist BD $????? (I have yet to figure out where the hell you're supposed to be able to buy this)

Additionally, I think I'm still sensing a little confusion here and there on the last couple pages, and going back and reading previous Blu Ray discussions I think I understand why. People using other freeware BR authoring software were saying things like "it only allows x amount of tracks on an audio menu" or "it won't let you make more than one of x kind of menu".

DoStudio doesn't work that way. It doesn't make any distinction between menu types, it doesn't have a limit on onscreen buttons, none of that shit. I can put a thousand buttons on the screen if I want. There are no pre-defined templates, it ALL has to be custom-made. ALL of it. The examples I posted above weren't made on a pop-up menu template, I made them in Photoshop from scratch and imported them in. As far as DoStudio is concerned, there is no "audio menu" or "subtitle menu", there is only "squares with buttons on it", whether it's one square or a thousand. So it's VERY different from authoring a DVD. As Yoda says, "You must unlearn what you have learned." :P

So it's not a question of "CAN we fit all these things on one screen?", it's "SHOULD we?" and my opinion is no, we shouldn't. It fills the screen with clutter and buries that beautiful restored footage under a mountain of language options.

From what I can tell using MediaInfo, all the lossy audio tracks appear to be constant bit rate rather than variable, for what that's worth; although I'm not sure how much of a difference re-encoding them as vbr would make

edit: unless ac-3 is cbr by design, i'm afraid i'm not familiar enough with it one way or the other