Here is the Seventh episode of Eight for the miniseries “Under the Mountain” (1981) <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202769/> From the jacket liner notes for this episode: 7. Assault The Wilberforces seem foiled as Mr Jones and the twins strike out for Rangitoto Island armed with their magic weapons. Note: picture and sound quality are subject to dated production source [i.e. glitches “as are” on the DVD]. All original liner text © TVNZ 2008. -*- Source: official NTSC DVD9 (single disc; imported from NZ) Ripper: MakeMKV v1.7.3 (100% pass-thru mode; see below for specs) Device: Pioneer BDR-203 v1.13 via fw800 Splitter: GNU CoreUtils v8.16+ ‘split’ <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> PAR2 generator: par2 command line v0.5.4 <http://github.com/BlackIkeEagle/par2cmdline/> <http://parchive.sourceforge.net/> The DVD seemingly has no captions available, nor much else. Playback has been checked with VLC v2.1-git <http://nightly.videolan.org/>, MPlayer <http://www.mplayerhq.hu> (with many requisite projects), QuickTime and Streamclip-v1.9.3b7 <http://www.squared5.com/> (with Perian-v1.2.3 plugin <http://perian.org/>), etc. (I do not have a standalone player that supports matroska, sorry; suggestions welcome.) Posted to GN using a much–improved updated custom version of ‘yencee’ v0.17 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/yencee/>. Driven with ActivePerl v5.12.2 provided by <http://www.ActiveState.com/>. Please be patient — we do not have very fast pipes here. I use bash shell scripts & math formulae I wrote myself. Most open–source code were lovingly compiled myself. Use your favourite PAR2 utility to check & join all parts. Around 5% par2 recovery blocks are provided; more can be generated & posted if needed. This nfo doc is painstakingly hand–crafted with care, using TextWrangler v3.5.3 from <http://www.barebones.com/>. [hope I have not forgotten anything <lol>] Personal note: Technical issues: In 2009 and 2010 in other postings (see the sci-fi series “Thunderstone”), I have explained why we do not post the whole DVD image, and do not convert to inferior divx/xvid/avi or x264/mp4 formats, so I won’t waste time rehashing the reasons. A lossless ripper is used here. And finally: Please find my “dvd–list” posted in a.f.t.i and elsewhere in recent months for other titles I have in possession. To continue posting what I have, I need feedback from you leechers, please! ;) Enjoy but Remember to BUY THE OFFICIAL DVD KITs! Thank you. :) -*- Specs (from mediainfo-0.7.54): General Complete name : UtM_Ep7of8_Assault.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 937 MiB Duration : 24mn 15s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 5 398 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-03-28 14:11:51 Writing application : MakeMKV v1.7.3 darwin(x86-release) Writing library : libmakemkv v1.7.3 (1.2.0/1.1.0) darwin(x86-release) Video ID : 1 Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@Main Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, Matrix : Custom Codec ID : V_MPEG2 Codec ID/Info : MPEG 1 or 2 Video Duration : 24mn 15s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 5 098 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 8 000 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan order : Top Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.492 Stream size : 885 MiB (94%) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Audio ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode : Dual Mono Mode extension : CM (complete main) Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 24mn 15s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 33.3 MiB (4%) Title : 1+1 Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Menu 00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01 00:12:58.110 : en:Chapter 02 -*- #Local Variables: #coding: utf-8 #End: