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12/30/2006 8:29 PM	Alert
I made the big step of buying a year account (actually doubled to 2 years under the Christmas bonus program) at SendSpace with the intent of uploading all the Katharine McPhee media from season five of American Idol. Link to Vinman sticky I have done all the uploading of all the Vinman files, trist mpegs under 300 MB, other Kat performance vids, Ford Commercials, all AI5 group performances and all the mp3s that I have too and included them in a new re-edited post (third post) in the Vinman sticky at the top of the media forum to include links to these files on my account. I saved the html of the post as a Word file and hence it is really a clean concise, media-dense post, but I think it is clearly labled and easy to navigate. The Ford commercials and group material was never brought to KMF by Vinman so look them over and get what you need, while it is there. I ask that you do not take these links outside of KMF to try to limit the likelihood of Freemantle, 19Entertainment, Fox or anyone else giving me the dreded copywrite infrigement letter that likely will come anyway. I have given thought to having people e-mail me for the links that I would have hidden somewhere on KMF in an edited ancient post back on page 8 or something because I honestly think that will be the only way to avoid "the man" in the long term, but for now they are there. Enjoy gang.

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12/30/2006 9:15 PM

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The challenge of maintaining uploaded media files at SendSpace has proven to be more then I really care to keep up with. The total of uploaded Vinman material exceeds 3 GB, so rather then chase after attempting to download all that every 7 days I've taken the step of paying for a SendSpace Max account.

In the past I've added supplements to the Vinman files in order to flesh out material that wasn't encoded by Vinman. With this new improved media post that effort will be expanded considerably. My goal it to have the video and audio uploaded for every Katharine McPhee performance during her run on American Idol. In addition Vinman's caps of all the Idol Ford commercials and Idol group performances will be here as well.

One of the changes I've implemented is a new file naming convention for all the uploaded files. The files will be named this way:

(Season of AI)(Episode within the season)_Name_Of_Performance_(file creators name).(type of file)

The season of American Idol on all files thus far is fifth (or S05), so looking at a random files name, in this case Vinman's file of Katharine's second song on Elvis night last year would look like this:

S05E36_Can't_Help_Falling_In_Love_vinman.divx

I'm starting with a frequently asked questions (FAQ) .

Who made these Katharine McPhee videos and why?

The vast majority of these files were created by Vinman Smith a capper who "got into the business" doing Carrie Underwood files as a fan of hers during AI4. Somehow last year he fell into the unenviable, time consuming, and hard working position of being the capper for nearly all of the TOP 10 performers on American Idol 5. In other words, every bit of thanks and gratitude you feel for any Katharine McPhee media with Vinman in the title should be directed his way.

Mixed in with Vinman's files are files that trist brought over from the official American Idol boards when they were deleted there. These files consist of eleven performance videos that capture Katharine McPhee's performances "as they were" on that night in the first half of 2006. All, save one exception I'll discuss later, are full HDTV captures of the original Fox broadcast. They are special files and you will know why when you see one of them at full screen on a big monitor...truly breathtaking.

I also picked up a couple of files from RapidShare account of a Superior Pics board poster named dBump that are in HDTV and his great cap of Katharine's Homecoming that isn't HD but is very, very nice indeed.

The rest of the files here are totally uncredited, does that mean I created them? No it doesn't, because I did not. Nearly all other files were snipped from full episodes of American Idol 5 downloaded off torrents or emule by me or other KMF members My contribution, if any, was snipping the clip and uploading it. If I knew who made the files I'd credit them too, but since I don't, I won't.

What do need to watch these Katharine McPhee videos?

The correct answer to this depends on what specific file you have downloaded but assuming you wanted to download every single file and want them to work correctly I recommend the following five as must haves:

DixX Package (mostly for the DivX codec, but also includes a player)

VLC player (freeware video player, might be the best free piece of software you ever get)

Media Player Classic ( another freeware player, get it too)

AC3 filter ( all the HD mpegs will have no sound without this installed)

XviD codec ( most of the torrent and emule stuff requires this for video)

What is the difference between a torrent-sourced file, a Vinman file and a trist file?

In a nutshell, two things, filesize and image quality. As the picture gets better the filesize quickly expands. The best way to explain this is with some sample images. Using Katharine's Finale duet with Meatloaf as an example.

Still taken from a typical torrent sourced XviD avi file.

Still taken from Vinman created DivX file:

Still taken from a trist HD mpeg:

Okay you look at those and say, " I'll take HD mpegs of everthing....please." Here is the rub on them, all we have is eleven clips total and some of them are massive files (approching half a gigabyte) and none contain the pre-performance material and only two have the judges comments. Every one of Vinman's caps is complete, all pre-perfomance material, the perfomance and judges comments and Kat's interactions with Ryan as well.

Consider the trist mpegs as a very sweet gift (from trist) and only as a supplement to the Vinman stuff not as a direct alternative. One very real benefit to Vinman's DivX files is that they can be played from a DivX enabled DVD player in a home theater setting. There are dozens of DivX compatible players on the market starting at about sixty dollars, so you can take these Kat performance vids and enjoy them in that environment as well.

S05E04 – Auditions in San Francisco, Ca - Wednesday January 25, 2006

Katharine McPhee – God Bless The Child – Billie Holiday Xvid.avi

mp3

HQ stream

S05E08 - Hollywood Round 1 - Wednesday February 8, 2006

Katharine McPhee - I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick XviD.avi

HQ Stream

S05E10 – Top 24 Are Revealed - Wednesday February 15, 2006

Katharine McPhee – My Funny Valentine - Rodgers & Hart XviD.avi

mp3

S05E11 -The Top 12 Girls Perform Live - Tuesday February 21, 2006

Katharine McPhee: Since I Fell For You - Barbra Streisand vinman.divx