Digital Archive Project

[mrbasehart]

Do the new versions have different codecs? Because the older ones don't run on my DVD player in AVI format and it's a pain to convert them.

[PsypherPunk]

Do the new versions have different codecs? Because the older ones don't run on my DVD player in AVI format and it's a pain to convert them.

G-Spot is a fairly decent program for figuring out which codecs a file's using.

[BathTub]

Sharktopus, the DAP or Digital Archive Project is an rag-tag bunch of TV aficionados who run a private E-Donkey server that runs a whitelist of approved files only. While it hosts quite a few shows such as Parker Lewis Can't Lose or  Dennis Miller's talk show, the main core of the project is Mystery Science Theater 3000.  They have made it a goal to make available the best possible copies of all the non-commercially released episodes, plus a variety of specials and other related media. 

They started off with the V1s ~700 meg mpeg4/divx type which have been gradually updated to V2s as new sources and better compression methods were found. The V3's however are the MST3K DVD Project which is basically run by Tarantulas, and that is the authoring of DVDs from the best sources available. These are specifically NOT transcodes from older rips. There is a fairly small group of encoders, Alleged and Wildcelt are about the only other 2 at the moment if I recall correctly.

The website contains all the details you need to jump on board, if I can do it, anyone can, it really isn't that hard.  Essentially it is downloading a specific version of edonkey, making sure the required port is open. finding the server details, and away you go. A lot of people just have trouble reading.

[PsypherPunk]

Question: when the DVD releases become available are the v2 releases (the ~700Mb variants) being re-encoded from thoses sources? Or are the v2 releases already encoded from the same sources?

[BathTub]

Sometimes, but not always. If the encoder thinks it is worth it, they will.

[Shinigami]

I really like DAP, but i hate E-Donkey.  I've never been able to get the thing to work properly and it attempts to load all kinds of spyware.  Everything I've gotten from them I've gotten from myspleen.net, which sucks in itself since older titles older have one or two seeders.  Having limited downloaders is the bane of bittorrent, you get better download rates on limewire.

[BathTub]

They have a spyware free installer of edonkey at the dap website.

[Sharktopus]

Sharktopus, the DAP or Digital Archive Project is an rag-tag bunch of TV aficionados who run a private E-Donkey server that runs a whitelist of approved files only. While it hosts quite a few shows such as Parker Lewis Can't Lose or  Dennis Miller's talk show, the main core of the project is Mystery Science Theater 3000.  They have made it a goal to make available the best possible copies of all the non-commercially released episodes, plus a variety of specials and other related media. 

They started off with the V1s ~700 meg mpeg4/divx type which have been gradually updated to V2s as new sources and better compression methods were found. The V3's however are the MST3K DVD Project which is basically run by Tarantulas, and that is the authoring of DVDs from the best sources available. These are specifically NOT transcodes from older rips. There is a fairly small group of encoders, Alleged and Wildcelt are about the only other 2 at the moment if I recall correctly.

The website contains all the details you need to jump on board, if I can do it, anyone can, it really isn't that hard.  Essentially it is downloading a specific version of edonkey, making sure the required port is open. finding the server details, and away you go. A lot of people just have trouble reading.

Thanks Bathtub. Since you're in New Zealand, I can safely assume that everything you say is in a funny voice already. 

[BathTub]

Oi!

It's you who has the silly voice.... /pout


lol

[Tarantulas]

Sometimes, but not always. If the encoder thinks it is worth it, they will.

To clarify, the DAP has never just used a AVI and "up converted" it to a DVD.  The DVDs are capped into huffy (or straight into MPEG2) and then lovingly transformed into DVDs.

[BathTub]

Yeah that is what I meant by the DVDs not being transcodes from the AVIs

[Sharktopus]

Oi!

It's you who has the silly voice.... /pout


lol

It's true. As an American I sound just like John Wayne.  Actually, living in the New York area, I'd probably sound like Robert DeNiro to you. *shudder*

[BathTub]

There are few kiwis on screen in the states Lucy Lawless (currently on Battlestar Galactica) is probably the most well known. A lot of americans seem to really like the kiwi accent, it was certainly a ticket out of plenty of classes in Jr High as I seemed to automatically get into any class plays.

[Sharktopus]

I quite enjoy the Kiwi accent. Richard Taylor of Weta, however, has the most irritating voice I've ever heard. He did an excellent on job on LOTR, and I'm sure he's a swell guy, but please put some duct tape over his mouth.

Americans love any accent from an English-speaking country. We had a guy from west Ireland at for at college for a semester and people would just ask him to say random words. "Hey Kenny, say Pop Tart!"

[kodiakthejuggler]

Just the other day I met a gentleman from New Zealand. I was at a friend's apartment for a party, and a couple of us were out on the balcony(2nd floor). As we talked, a couple exited the apartment below, and the man said bye to the woman, who got in her car and left. As he walked back, we started talking to him, and turns out, he's a swell guy, with a great accent, and was slightly inebriated, so he fit right in with us. We invited him to join our party, and he did so, entertaining us with his wit.

True story.