Posted By Royboy on 05/07/2007 9:39 AM
Diff, in your post above... (Tonight Show, Over It True HD MPEG-2 mpg, 1920x1080) "Video goes all the way through the parts with Kat on the screen (shaking hands with other guests), up to the dog driving the car"... am I missing something or what?! The (excellent!) vid I just downloaded only had the (excellent!) performance, and nothing with Kat shaking hands with the other guests, or the dog driving the car(???)????

Also, for both of those "Over It" vids, "It's interlaced, so view in VLC and choose Video > Deinterlace > Blend (or whatever method you prefer)"

I'm still learning, so the Deinterlacing thing was a new one to me. I now know what you're talking about and how to do it, but it IS only these two vids that need to be deinterlaced, right? How would one normally know that or determine that? and I assume each time you play either of these vids they'd have to be deinterlaced, right? I did a little experimenting, and I THINK I had the best results with the "Discard" deinterlacing method (in VLC) with "Blend" being the second best... I THINK! Any comments and/or additional info on this is appreciated.

And finally... once again...

THANKS A MILLION!!! I simply cannot emphasize how much I've appreciated the great, friendly, extra special help and support here!!!

As CRB mentioned, after the performance, the other guests (and some other guy) come up to Kat on stage.

If you don't have any of the shaking hands, could your download have cut off early? I did a test, cut the download early, and the mpg video plays without error by VLC, MPC, and WMP. Check the file size.

For deinterlacing, whatever you like the best IS the best and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!  It's a matter of personal preference.

Everyone's cringing when they see you asking about deinterlacing, Royboy, cuz they're expecting a 6000 word post from me. They know me well...

"Discard" throws out every other horizontal line (sort of), then resizes back up to the correct size. sharper motion, less vertical resolution.

"Blend" averages fields. Motion is blurred/ghosty, but non(low)-moving parts are higher resolution.

The following site explains deinterlacing in an entertaining manner (considering the subject matter!) WARNING: If you read it, you risk future viewing enjoyment. You may find your eyes unnaturally drawn to moving edges...

www.100fps.com

Posted By CRB on 05/07/2007 11:06 AM
Katharine shaking hands with Cos and  Chloe at the end is what diff was talking about.  I think Leno calls her Kathy there too.    The dog driving the car is Leno's production company symbol and it didn't make the cut. 

I find if I don't  have a bunch of other programs running then I can play the clips with VLC or MPC or pretty much anything and if I do then they are really choppy.  I don't see  much difference in playing with the interlace settings but you might have other results.  This computer I'm using is five years old so I'm hoping the next rig will handle them better.  They take full screen anyway so it isn't like multitasking is an option.

diff keep those modified trist files coming!  I'm going to put them in my third post as an option for VLC player people.

hmm. I thought the dog made the cut. darn Maybe the very last frame? maybe not. I'd check but it's already so many unindexed bits on my hard drive.

oh btw, fixed Time of My Life is up!

Posted By differentlife on 05/10/2007 1:12 AM

Posted By shinamarih on 05/09/2007 1:52 AM
Have you tried uploading through Mediafire? IdolCraze.com cappers use that to upload their torrented AI5 episodes. Upon request, they could upload vids into 100mb chunks for easier downloading. Might be a bit tedious, but it's a whole lot easier for me to DL my requests. What do the gurus think?

yup I tried mediafire for the Roses Parade. I got quite a lot of complaints that people couldn't access it.

And the vid there is gone too. So much for permanence!

The biggest problem is the access issue. Mediafire blocks certain countries completely I think. While annoying to most people, megaupload at least gives some access to (nearly) everyone. So if I switch to mediafire, there's a good chance others would be screwed completely.

Is your problem the limited download slots for your country for megaupload? There are some workarounds that I've seen posted on the internet. 1 is a Firefox add-on (can't vouch for it however. Try at your own risk):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3843

I added fixed Can't Help Falling in Love for you to test bottom of page 4

I haven't had any problems with Mediafire as of the moment. Well, I guess, some of the files I've DL'd are corrupted thereby disenabling me to download whole vids. It can be solved though by simply re-DL'ing the links.

I'll try that Mozilla add-on you gave above. It might take some time though before I might be able to actually do it since I'm in the middle of a job shift right now, and it's been crazy. I'll let you know if it works for me. Thanks.

Thank you so much to all you wonderful video gurus like vin, differentlife, CRB, trippy, bigshady, trist, and all who have made this treasure trove of Katharine video links available to the rest of us.   Your time, trouble, and expertise are so appreciated.

You're so very welcome!

I'm in the middle of reuploading some huge megaupload files that got inadvertently expired. I'll do VH-1 Top 20 in a bit. The interview from Feb 3, right? hmm. First I gotta find it. In the meantime...

Ugly Betty Fashion show
whole scene plus preview of following week's episode
1280x720, 253MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9L9XSBJA

Get McPheever scene
1280x720, 46MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QR5QXCWT

Edit+
VH-1 Top 20 interview from Feb 3
http://www.divshare.com/download/1565437-5ed

If you look through the pages of this thread there should be download links for those videos, I have them split and uploaded in my Sendspace account and diff's links of his remuxed versions may still work ( I can't remember the host that he used) ,  in the later pages of this thread.  The ones in my third post of page one are, as you have found out,  dead and have been for quite a while, but check pages 2 and 3 and I think you will find what you seek and maybe some other good stuff too.

And welcome zarut !  

Edit: OK, it looks like both of the SOTR links work (see top of page 3 for those links) but the first chunk of the Girls Medley has gone bad and doesn't work.  So I'll have to reupload both pieces, since I didn't keep the splits,  and also HD/ASU, since the Quicksharing link was still working at the time,  I never  uploaded that to Sendspace. 

BTW, I'm working on pulling stuff off my archived HD DVHS tapes to  fill in some of the gaps in Kat's late AI5 HD performance videos, so it may take a few days to get those two up. 

What I recorded, way back in 2006, and should have up at some point (if all goes well)  are:

I Believe I Can Fly

I Aint' Got Nothing But The Blues

Black Horse And The Cherry Tree (Top 2)

SOTR (Top 2)

My Destiny (Top 2)

And all the other Kat stuff from those episodes (in HD) , if anyone wants it.

Plus the both of the  JC Penney Jam performances in full HD1080i!

So my plate is kind of full right now.  But those are now on my list zarut.

Here is Katharine's performance of Hound Dog/All Shook Up from Top 4 night ( download both pieces and join with HJSplit)  Credit to trist for the orignal source file and differentlife for making the file compatible with the VLC player.

Part 1 of HD/ASU

Part 2 of HD/ASU

Thank you very much for your effort to help me.

I'm really thankful for your work.

If you can promise that you wouldn't mind uploading the other two videos, I guess I wouldn't mind waiting either. This is because some of the videoes that you mentioned. I have not even had them yet so please take your time.

Moreover, I'd be really happy to have the JC Penny Live performance in full HD.When was that performance anyway? How come I never heard of such thing?

What songs did she perform?

Welcome! Have you tried some of those megaupload workaround sites? You enter the megaupload link at another website and are able to download that way. I can't remember the sites but a few fans from outside the US suggested them as a way to download from megaupload when they couldn't download directly.