Subject: Info on "Day of the SubGenius" video

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack
Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2003 2:58 AM

This is a VCD-ready MPG of

"THE DAY OF THE SUBGENIUS"

-- a short film by The Bolex Brothers based on "The Brag of the
SubGenius" by yours oh so very truly, and on The Book of the SubGenius.

This is worth the download. It is absolutely unlike any other SubGenius
video OR audio that we've seen. It's starting to make the film festival
circuit now, I believe.

It's an MPEG1 video, 320x240 pixels, 29.97 fps, 70 MB in size.

This 8 minute video should play as is on any computer platform once
it's been extracted from the RAR archive. It's the kind of mpeg that
can be made directly into a VCD without any conversion. If used with a
CDR burner that makes VCDs, it'll burn as a VCD that will play in
modern DVD players like the Apex. (In the Apex, it will play just fine
off a CDR whether it's burned "as a VCD" or just as the plain mpeg file
on a plain data CDR.)

The Bolex Brothers (of Bristol, England) are famous for the weird
stop-motion feature film, "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb," 1993,
and for TV commercials featuring bizarre animation, such as the
sinister Fanta and Nestea snowman-skeleton that magically fills out
into a snowman when he drinks his soda pop.

The film uses a combination of live action, cut-outs, 3D and 2D
computer animation, plus some stop-motion models to depict X-Day.

It's completely SubGenius-like in style, YET OF A SUBGENIUSLY STYLE
WE'VE NEVER SEEN ELSEWHERE. You'll see what I mean.

This is encoded and posted the same way as the large files in most of
the movie binaries newsgroups such as alt.binaries.vcd -- RAR archive
volumes and PARS or parity files.

I haven't seen RARs and PARs used much in a.b.s.; not many large format
movies get posted here. Didn't used to anyway. This is my first one,
but I have been busily making both DVD and VCD versions of all our main
videos, so there's plenty more I could post. PLENTY. I have never had
any problem downloading the fairly large (30 to 100 mb) movies that
Edfred's posted, so what the heck-fire.

I download whole movies by the truckload from binaries newsgroups and I
know many of the pitfalls. I have tested this mess of files to make
sure it all works. That is, I successfully re-opened the RARs and
played the movie in both Mac OS X and Windows ME.

If you are new to RARs, let me explain.

It's a way of breaking gigantic CDR-sized files like movies into more
manageable chunks of 10 mb or so for newsgroups. The PAR files that go
with the RAR archive files are a slick way of making sure you can still
open and play the movie EVEN IF SEVERAL OF THE RAR FILES ARE INCOMPLETE
OR MISSING.

In Windows, use WinRAR, available free (shareware) from downloads.com
or http://www.rarsoft.com/ or http://www.rarlab.com/

PAR (parity) files can make up for damaged or missing RAR files, using
SmartPar or fsraid:
http://www.fluidstudios.com/fsraid.html

!! EXCELLENT overview and how-tos on downloading, decoding and playing
movies from newsgroups is at:
http://how.to/abmdivxfaq

Mac users on OSX must use MacPar deluxe -- free from
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/MacPAR_deLuxe/
Install the program and then double-click the file ending in .par
This should work even if you are missing some RAR parts.

In Mac OS 9.2 and below, you must use MacRAR (downloads.com or
http://macrar.free.fr/
Install the program and then double-click on the file ending in .rar
You will need all the parts for this to work.

I used MarRAR to make the RARs and MacPAR deluxe for the PARs. In
Windows I was able to reopen them using WinRAR and play the movie using
Windows Media Player. Real Player or Quicktime should work too.

Excellent general info on VCDs & software links are at
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

Here is the complete list of parts:

Day of the SubGenius.mpg.p01
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.par
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.r01
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.r05
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.r03
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.r04
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.r06
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.r00
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.rar
Day of the SubGenius.mpg.r02

Let me know if it works/doesn't work.

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Subject: Re: Info on "Day of the SubGenius" video
From: ZONTAR JOHNSON <n@m.net>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:
> http://macrar.free.fr/

Got it to work on my old hot-rodded Mac 7500 with a G3. Took a bit of
fiddlin' and gave error messages but it played fine. Well worth the
long down load. Great stuff.

--
Come the Revolution we'll have other Ass-holes ruling us.
Long live the Proctocracy.

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Subject: Re: Info on "Day of the SubGenius" video
From: Mr. F. Le Mur <lemurama@attxbi.com>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

->This is a VCD-ready MPG of
->"THE DAY OF THE SUBGENIUS"
->
->-- a short film by The Bolex Brothers based on "The Brag of the
->SubGenius" by yours oh so very truly, and on The Book of the SubGenius.
->
->This is worth the download. It is absolutely unlike any other SubGenius
->video OR audio that we've seen. It's starting to make the film festival
->circuit now, I believe.

I just watched this a couple of days ago, definitely worth the DL.

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