CAPELLA'S BLOG
Mission accomplished
Friday, February 3, 2006 9:51 PM
The tango vid is finished. If you are interested, you can check it out on my homepage (http://www.jutta-jordans.de then click FanVideos) or download it with the direct link:http://cubemonkey.net/capella/tango.avi
or for a smaller version
http://cubemonkey.net/capella/tango_small.avi
It uses the XVid codex and a Windows Media Audio layer, a combination that seems to be a bit problematic with most players, but it was the only way I could get the soundbits to the right frames (mostly) and still get a decent compression. WinAmp gave me the best results when playing this vid, the Windows Media Player works, too, the VLC Player, normally my fallback solution for all media problems, messes up the sound for some reason.
Anyway, check it out and comment if you like.
And now for something completely different: Battlestar Galactica the new series is finally in German free TV. I watched part 2 of the mini series tonight (I missed part 1). Well, what am I to say now? I am not a friend of remakes. The old series was cool as it was. I loved it as a teenager, it was the first fandom I was ever involved in, even before I discovered StarWars. I loved Richard Hatch as Apollo and of course Dirk Benedict as Starbuck. I read all the novels to it, I have seen all episodes more often than I care to tell and I wrote my first fanfiction stories about life on the Galactica.
Now everything is polished up a little. Galactica always had great ship designs and with today's special effects they truely shine. But they changed so many things... worst of all: Starbuck is a woman now. Say what? Starbuck? Hero of my childhood memories! A woman! It just does not work for me. She still smokes cigars, though
Baltar is cool. More complex than the old character. Better looking, too. But tell me one thing: if they changed everything anyway, why could they not give Boxey a new haircut? Poor boy. He looks like the last relict from the 70s.I am not convinced yet, maybe I never will be. I will give the series another chance, though. Wednesday night the regular series will start and be on a weekly basis.
Television sucks more and more. I had not watched any prime time programms for quite a while, mainly sticking to DVDs. It is bad enough that they have commercial breaks every twenty minutes or so and that those breaks get longer and longer, now they also put all kinds of programm announcements and ring tone advertisments etc. in the subtitles. It really pisses me off.
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