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Posted by krem_de_la_krem on 12-24-2003 12:43 PM:

Unfortunately, was nuked for out of sync issues, but nuff respect to Obus for trying,

Merry Xmas Eve

peace

Posted by [dj-mike] on 12-24-2003 01:26 PM:

rofl no it wasnt

Posted by crackerjax on 12-24-2003 01:52 PM:

all my sources say nuked for "out-of-sync" ... a sample fix can't fix an entire movie that's out of sync ... said best by the nukes!

crappy movie anyways, from what I've heard ... but whatever

Posted by G-X on 12-24-2003 03:00 PM:

ehm, its not out of sync, i jut grabbed the first cd and watched about 20 minutes of it. looks good to, 8/8/?

ill post my full comments once ive finished the movie

Posted by crapper on 12-24-2003 03:55 PM:

i skipped tru the movie and so no sync problems
OBUS.. make em SVCD these great rips are worth it

thnxx for the oscar stuff... i just love this time of year

Posted by Air1 on 12-24-2003 04:11 PM:

sorry didn't mean to post here, meant for master and commander. delete this please, mods. thanks.

Posted by killerontheru on 12-24-2003 04:14 PM:

great one!

it looks fine to me, nothing wrong with it. GREAT JOB!

By the way this movie is awsome it dosen't suck at all, grap it while u can!

8/8/9

Posted by speck on 12-24-2003 06:57 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by crackerjax
all my sources say nuked for "out-of-sync" ... a sample fix can't fix an entire movie that's out of sync ... said best by the nukes!

crappy movie anyways, from what I've heard ... but whatever

Why don't you watch it and stop relying on what other people say? Especially about what "you" think of the movie

Posted by drunkninja on 12-24-2003 07:00 PM:

Plain and simple it was a good rls...everyone quit fighting and starting nonsense....bottom line good video and audio good job obus....

8/9/8

Posted by gfavored on 12-24-2003 08:17 PM:

The audio is not out of sync, and overall not a bad release.
watched the whole movie yeasterday, not bad, I for one liked the story line.
I just don't understand how come groups insist on encoding screeners to VCD,(low resolution), and then use 1150 CBR instead of a multipass VBR, for better vid quality. At least the same quality as the source, but most times done properly,it can come out better than VHS quality.
The result is a soft pic with occasional noise in dark scenes, hence my 7 in video quality. The audio is good, but nothing special, I mean it was just a matter of capturing off the VHS.
This is definately not a nuke item, and the best one for this movie.

V A M
7\8\9

Posted by GeNeTiX on 12-24-2003 09:04 PM:

Nice job OBUS
good video, nice clean audio.
First sample was out of sync, samplefix is fine, although it might at first seem out of sync very slightly, too hard to tell, maybe? not bad enough to worry about if it indeed is, this is a very nice release!
7.5/8/x

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Posted by Getdown on 12-24-2003 09:43 PM:

can somebody pz confirm if it is out of sync plz

Posted by Ignite023 on 12-25-2003 05:57 AM:

one of the best movies i've seen all year..

and no, it's not out of sync.

Posted by PhreakerX on 12-25-2003 08:42 AM:

Just finished cd2, cd1 had no out-of-sync issues, and the movie was very enjoyable

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Posted by Jc100 on 12-25-2003 09:39 PM:

ANyone have issues with audio glitches, like pop and glitch sound i watched it and heard a bunch of em.. maybe my apex iono. Just wondering?

Posted by Jonas on 12-26-2003 12:05 AM:

very nice academy screener. I noticed no desync or other audio glitches in cd1. Video was very nice throughout and WS.

8/9/x

Cant wait to finish watching this!

Posted by Condor on 12-26-2003 12:35 AM:

NO - it's not out of Sync. Had a few audio glitches/sound pause like for a second then continues on - might be my Apex too. Pretty good quality VHS rip. Movie was excellent.

Video - 8
Audio - 8
Movie - 8.5

Few "For your consideration" watermark.

Posted by kurisu on 12-26-2003 08:54 AM:

all recent obus rlses have audio glitches and lock-ups on more picky player because their not 100% vcd compliant. damn shame too because they rls the only movies worth watching :/

Posted by DREDD on 12-27-2003 12:51 AM:

Big Fish CD1 RAR file corruption part27

Just thought I would get the word out that part 27 of the RAR files for CD1 is coming up corrupted... looking for just that part to finish CD1.

BTW - as for VCD compliance.... just pull out the .MGP file and create a true VCD with it using another program..I have done it before and it has worked great. Used vcdgear...

Posted by mrawde on 12-27-2003 01:49 AM:

my disc 1 has a corrupt archive (r27 ;( ) but i looked at t he sampler and disc 2, and they look great.

can't wait to see it all ;]

Posted by ktownno1 on 12-27-2003 02:14 AM:

I downloaded But

CD 1 Bin is corrupt. Any Fixes. Ill be very thankful for any help

Posted by ktownno1 on 12-27-2003 02:23 AM:

Cd 1 Bin Corrupt

Downloaded it and Cd 1 Bin Corrupt. Any fixes. Any Help Would be Great

Posted by bryehn on 12-27-2003 02:59 PM:

solution: when extracting, just check "keep broken files". other than the audio pops, i saw nothing currupted about this release. honestly one of the best vhs rips i've ever seen...colours were kinda dull, kinda like watching a UK TV show over here in canada. other than that, video looked perfect on my TV...

movie was good, not great, imo...nice holiday story though...my parents and wife liked it...

9/7/7

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Posted by HarryBum on 12-28-2003 09:50 AM:

???? Don't understand comments.

I had no problems with it at all.

Posted by kurisu on 12-28-2003 01:06 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by kurisu
all recent obus rlses have audio glitches and lock-ups on more picky player because their not 100% vcd compliant. damn shame too because they rls the only movies worth watching :/

too much work (btw i can just re-import the dat file in nero and it works too but it takes a lot of time), if i d/l a bin/cue i expect to be able to burn and watch it... i'll just have to skip obus rlses alltogether (with pain in the heart as i love the movies they rel)... strange that my philips dvd951 seems to be te only player affected, alltho also nero clearly says their mpg file has invalid stream encoding, and this in *all* obus rlses...

Posted by vinnyv07 on 12-28-2003 04:09 PM:

For some reason...I had problems downloading this one also. Either Winrar had problems or missing rars or no rars present at all. I have heard on some downloades that the RAR had a _ at the end and that if you got rid of the _ that winrar would recognize the file. Anyway I ended up downloading a regular windows media file and coverting it to mpeg. Quality seemed very good to me ....I didnt watch the whole movie but I did watch all of cd1 and part of cd2 and I couldnt find any problems with it. Looks like a good release to me.
Video - 7
Audio - 7
Movie - ? Good so far

Posted by Unset on 12-28-2003 10:40 PM:

great rls OBUS. i give it 8/8.5/?.

Posted by iGotLaid_off on 12-30-2003 07:40 AM:

i know i might be a bit late on this but i DID have SYNC ISSUES on cd 1 . I just watched this at a friends house on his sony that plays vcds fine. I didn't notice any problems untill around 40+ min at which point i noticed a build up of almost a 1 second lag. Will also test on apex. This issue seemed to correct itself alittle on cd2 but even at the beginning i noticed an offset. Hopefully someone will pr0per or better yet wait for dvd screener. Great looking video

8/5/8 good flick reminds me of a bunch of good flix combined into one big movie salad

Posted by red_s on 12-30-2003 10:16 AM:

Watched it on PC, no sync issues. Great quality and a great movie.

8/8/9

Posted by plonk420 on 12-30-2003 11:08 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by gfavored
I just don't understand how come groups insist on encoding screeners to VCD,(low resolution), and then use 1150 CBR instead of a multipass VBR, for better vid quality.7\8\9

*sigh* so when did the VCD spec become VBR?

but anywho, if they're gonna make out-of-spec VCD-like MPEGs, they might as well *go* VBR

Posted by M112_04 on 12-30-2003 08:25 PM:

Finally...

After downloading from 3 different servers..finally got a good one...the first one was slow, the second one was corrupt and wouldn't open..the final one ..good... no out of sync issues..and no bin issues perfect download...

video 8.. very good for a screener
audio 8...nice and clear.
overall 8..good movie..a current day wizard of oz.

Posted by bobass on 01-01-2004 12:08 AM:

This is a nice screener. No time codes or propery of along the bottom or top. IT IS IN SYNC. Haven't wathed the movie yet but looks good

8/8/?

Posted by gfavored on 01-01-2004 08:39 AM:

plonk420,

Video CD 2.0
About two years after the Video CD 1.1 specification came out in,1993, an improved Video CD 2.0 standard was published in 1995. This one added the following items to the features already available in the Video CD 1.1 specification:
Support for MPEG segment play items (SPI), consisting of still pictures, motion pictures and/or audio (only) streams was added..
Support for interactive playback control (PBC) was added.
Support for playing related access by providing a scan point index file was added. (`/EXT/SCANDATA.DAT')
Support for closed captions.
Support for mixing NTSC and PAL content.
By adding PAL support to the Video CD 1.1 specification, the following resolutions became available:
352 x 240 @ 29.97 Hz (NTSC SIF).
352 x 240 @ 23.976 Hz (FILM SIF).
352 x 288 @ 25 Hz (PAL SIF).
For segment play items the following audio encodings became available:
Joint stereo, stereo or dual channel audio streams at 128, 192, 224 or 384 kbit/sec bit-rate.
Mono audio streams at 64, 96 or 192 kbit/sec bit-rate.
Also the possibility to have audio only streams and still pictures was provided. The bit-rate of multiplex-ed streams should be kept under 174300 bytes/sec (except for single still picture items) in order to accommodate single speed drives.

These specs you are speaking of are a decade old.
And were created for the hardware and technology of that time. Advances in technology doubles aproximately every 5 years, and the hardware of today have surpassed those standards, and in fact have demanded a standard of their own. A good example of this is the great importation of low-end DVD players, world wide from Asia, where VCD and SVCD are more common than DVD.
In 2000, the SVCD standard was created to accomadate this influx, for economical reasons and also the hardware of Western specifications and formats, ie: DVD's.
This is always the case, the advances in hardware will always demand a rewriting of the specifications to accommodate it.
The 1995 standards are near obsolete as is the hardware in which it was written for, you can expect a change within the specs., and only because the hardware will demand it from us, and is demanding it now. CBR was demanded by the single speed drives.
Anything that is written, ( software,programs, or even specs.) are written to accomodate the hardware, The hardware is not made for that which is written.
Change is a good thing.

I have talked too long, sorry,

Posted by ShinBone on 01-01-2004 08:00 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by plonk420
*sigh* so when did the VCD spec become VBR?

but anywho, if they're gonna make out-of-spec VCD-like MPEGs, they might as well *go* VBR

Personally, I'd like to see CVD ( http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/userguides/98177.php ) used for VHS screeners or TS maybe.

But anyway, about the movie:

8/8/7

The movie is very imaginative and is mildly entertaining.

Posted by ForumLamer on 01-03-2004 05:50 AM:

This is a good release, everything is good audio, video and movie.. this is a must get...

8/8/8

Posted by K-FurY on 01-06-2004 03:45 AM:

finally picked this up, was waiting for a proper or a dvd scr (like others obus releases have major audio problems on my standalone), but i wanted to see this so i picked it up, great rls video and sound (minus the fact that its not vcd compliant).

8/8/x

regarding academy screeners
anyone else notice the markings on cd2, in the first few seconds right over ewan mcgregors shoulder you can see the 'mpaa dots.' now usually these are on theatrical prints, but does anyone have any info on wheter or not any studios are using this type marking for identifying screeners? it would be a shame to see obus lose their supplier, they've been releasing alot of good screeners this season.

Posted by bobcobb13 on 01-09-2004 03:58 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by kurisu
all recent obus rlses have audio glitches and lock-ups on more picky player because their not 100% vcd compliant. damn shame too because they rls the only movies worth watching :/

Yep, you're correct, I watched Big Fish on my stand alone dvd player and the audio does eventually loose sync.

Posted by JNasty on 01-10-2004 05:55 AM:

Great Story

Colors are a bit washed, sound average.

7/7/8

Posted by Clockwork on 01-11-2004 01:40 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by bryehn
solution: when extracting, just check "keep broken files". other than the audio pops,

Thanks for the tip with this. I'd imagine others that had the problem with the corrupt file followed this advice.

How far after a release can they be commented on? I tend to go for releases late in the day but at least people can be confident that I am rating the full release I guess.

I loved this movie. It's one of the most moving films I have seen in recent times (me anyway).

Lets see then:

6/8/9

Video pretty dull. I'd agree that a lot of these vhs rips could benefit from a better resolution, say svcd or xsvcd for instance but then it depends on how good a vhs source can look I guess.

Sound is ok to me.

Posted by thetruecritic on 01-12-2004 12:27 AM:

I just watched this and it is a great movie, but this release has a few spots that skips and the sound makes a weird sound when the frames skip. very odd! 7/6.5/9

Posted by sdavis on 01-12-2004 05:35 AM:

excellent movie

Ewan McGregor rocks, quality was great. Funny and dramatic at the sam time

9/9/11

Posted by The Ironduke on 01-24-2004 09:27 PM:

Great movie but the audio sqeeks n pops alittle

Posted by BLUE-NEO on 01-24-2004 10:18 PM:

this is a nice movie I watched the whole thing last night. very nice looks better on the television..I didn't have any sync problems

7/8/8

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Posted by viper359 on 02-13-2004 10:28 PM:

I thought before watching this, I would hate it, and find it very boring. Wow, was I surpirsed to find that I liked the movie, and it quickly passed the time.

The quality was decent for normal vhs screeners that I have seen. based of that, I rate the following: 7/7/8

Posted by KLashNekkOff on 02-20-2004 05:49 PM:

pretty good release from OBUS.

i was a little late in obtaining this film but i was truly impressed by the storyline which kept me hooked throughout! excellent directing and a gr8 performance from Ewan McGregor, also nice to see cameo roll for Steve Buscemi

video is decent quality, most definately watchable, however it does get a little blurry and pixelated in darker scenes and in long distance shots. "For Your Consideration" also pops up a the bottom of the screen a few times aswell, but overall good.

audio was excellent, i noticed none of the sync problems which have been reported with this screener.

Video: 7
Audio: 9.5
Movie: 9.5

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