Here is the Fifteenth episode of Twenty-Two for the classic TV series “Starman” (1986-7) <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090527/> <http://www.tv.com/shows/starman/> Synopsis of this episode from TV.com: Episode 15 — “Dusty” *** ¡¡¡SPOILERS!!! *** While travelling to Las Vegas, Paul and Scott pick up a woman. During a meal, she steals their car. She then proceeds to sell it and gamble the proceeds all away. A hotel, thinking that he is the real “Paul Forrester”, gives them a room. They find the car lot where she sold their vehicle, and they recover their belongings including the spheres. Paul later shows her her-‘self’. She finally decides to try changing her ways. And when they leave the hotel, they discover that they accumulated a very large bill. (Written by unknown with modifications by me-“*”) -*- Source: official NTSC DVD9 Ripper: MakeMKV v1.7.4 (100% pass-thru mode; see below for specs) Device: Pioneer BDR-203 v1.13 via usb2 and/or internal Matshita UJ-85J vFCQA (with region-free patch available at <http://rpc1.org/>) 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 chapter marks, 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/>. I use bash shell scripts & math formulae I wrote myself. Most open–source code were lovingly compiled myself. Use your favorite 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 v4.0.1 (build 3152) from <http://www.barebones.com/>. [hope I have not forgotten anything <lol>] Personal note: This series has finally been officially released recently thru “On Demand” ordering at <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007G8SEF2/> which is my source. This is one of my favorite series. The quintessential Alien Father–Son family. <w> I will try uploading one episode per planetary rotation. Maybe more, maybe less, we will see… Please be patient — we do not have very fast pipes here. 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 nor as VOBs, 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-0.7.58): General Complete name : Starman_-_Complete_Series_-_E15_-_Dusty.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 1.44 GiB Duration : 48mn 3s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 4 295 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-05-22 12:43:18 Writing application : MakeMKV v1.7.4 darwin(x86-release) Writing library : libmakemkv v1.7.4 (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 : Default Codec ID : V_MPEG2 Codec ID/Info : MPEG 1 or 2 Video Duration : 48mn 3s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 4 017 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 8 000 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate mode : Variable Frame rate : 29.970 fps Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Scan order : Top Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.388 Stream size : 1.35 GiB (94%) Language : English Default : No Forced : No Audio ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 48mn 3s 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 : 66.0 MiB (4%) Title : 2/0 Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Menu 00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01 -*- #Local Variables: #coding: utf-8 #End: