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TIE-Tanic Movie

invenustus writes "I just watched the 10-minute movie TIE-tanic. In case the title doesn't tip you off, it's "Star Wars Meets Titanic." Hilarious, and fairly impressive video and audio editing. I wonder what kind of software they used." I liked this even more than the 'King Kong vs. The Empire' short I saw at an SF convention several years back. Update: 01/18 06:21 by E : It's in QuickTime 4 format, by the way.

134 comments

  1. Re:A defense of The Phantom Menace: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it had natalie portman in it. period. PERIOD. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!

    thank you.

  2. Re:Have we had enough of this shit yet ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I also work for Microsoft. How come we haven't met yet? What's your real name?

    Anyway the campaign against Linux is company-confidential. You should not tell anybody about this in public forums.

    It is especially forbidden to disclose that we killed off Netscape intentionally, that we will strengthen our strategy of obfuscating our protocols and file formats and worsen software efficency to make our friends at Intel happy again. Neither may you disclose our FUD tacticts to the public.

    Please keep in mind. You should NEVER state publicly that Windows NT was good at the beginning, but has become unmaintainable now and is digging itself into a big hole. The public does not have to know - new hardware will speed things up again, new service packs will help too.

    Remember: Microsoft is good. We are Microsoft. We are good. God save Mr. Gates.

  3. A polite appeal to the web authors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ok. Ok...so there *is* a Qt player for Linux...I think I covered that base anyway. Simply letting them know that a lot of people out there are into "open" file-types...Please whenever you email folks about things like this to be polite


    Name: Anonymous Coward
    Url Address: file:///c:\windows\
    Email Address: first@segfault.org
    (Note:By including your email address, you may receive email from the guestbook owner or other guests.)
    Website: Your Windows directory
    Referred by: Just Surfed On In
    From: hell
    Time: 17-Jan-00
    Comments: Surfed in from /. Please consider releasing this and any future works in a less platform-restrictive format. A
    growing number of people are using platforms today that will not handle QT-4 files, or do not wish to download and install
    YAFMP(Yet another * movie player) on their system simply because someone else said they should. I would personally
    recoomend an alternate mpeg or .avi (please not sorenson) download for the sake of those people. That said, I think I'll make
    my buddy with the Windows machine download it so I can check it out. Please feel free to see what others are saying about
    your movie in a recent article at http://www.slashdot.org/, a site which is sure to be sending you quite a bit of traffic in the
    future. :)

    1. Re:A polite appeal to the web authors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you saying that in order to produce a codec for QuickTime, Apple won't let you release your codec separately for other formats/implementations? Doesn't that sound like Apple owns your codec intsead of you (your company) owning it??

      Alternatively, why not release the codecs for use in other file formats (AVI, MPEG, etc.)?

    2. Re:A polite appeal to the web authors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hi there, the original poster here. I hope I didn't come off in the original letter as bitching too much. Basically I wanted to let them know that I looked forward to seeing their work, and would like them to perhaps make a more accessable version...I don't know for a fact this but I'm assuming it would be trivial for them to click "save as" and put a link somewhere on their page saying "QT4-challenged go here". I've said this before in other articles-they will never know anyone has a problem with it until someone lets them know. And I think that, being good people they'll probably ponder my message for at least a few seconds :)

    3. Re:A polite appeal to the web authors by Fozz · · Score: 1
      Ok. Ok...so there *is* a Qt player for Linux...I think I covered that base anyway. Simply letting them know that a lot of people out there are into "open" file-types...

      Don't complain to the content producers... they're just using the best technology available to them (which happens to be Quicktime right now). Instead, complain to Apple and the producers of the codecs included in Quicktime.

      I work for one of the companies responsible for one of the Quicktime codecs and while the company would love to explore the possibility of opening the codec to the world or releasing binaries or libraries to people like the xanim folks, Apple's licensing just won't allow it.

      *shrugs*

  4. /.ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    oh man :(

  5. hey dumbass. Right On! yeah, ya'. Right On! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If ya' duzn't wanna see anonymous posts, all ya' gots'ta do be change yo' dreshold level. Pretty hard huh?

    Man, some sucka's couldn't hack deir way uh a cracka' jack box...

  6. Re:Player for Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No, you mean 'free' as in 'safe for zealots'.

  7. Re:Player for Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If QuickTime is genuinely the best and nothing else really comes anywhere close, then why is MPEG used in DVDs and Digital TV instead of Quicktime?

    Surely the issue isn't the file format per se but the codec(s) - in which case, why can't the codecs be used in multiple file formats??

  8. Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    185k/sec on a site that should be slashdotted by now!

    1. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      scratch that, 270k/sec now.

  9. It is /. ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Arg... I need some humor

  10. dammit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they misspelled "millennium" as "millenium."

  11. Scratch that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I got in!!! But only 30 KB/s

    1. Re:Scratch that by ViGe · · Score: 1

      I got in!!! But only 30 KB/s

      Interestingly enough, the 150kbit/s stream (which actually seems to be 80kbit/s though ;-) works just fine with me. Looks like that site has quite a good amount of bandwidth.
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      It has to work - rfc1925
  12. George Lucas in Love by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Check out George Lucas in Love. Done to Shakespear in Love. VERY funny. Steve

  13. Re:Have we had enough of this shit yet ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You are right. I do post absolute shit. I even mentioned my bra and t-shirt on /. today! yay! AC rocks! Well, I think that fills my quota of absolute shit for today. Thankyou for your message about shit. Please move along. Nothing to see here.

    *WARNING! CRAPPY SIG BELOW*
    Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain NT.

  14. If you thought this was good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You should definately check out Tripping the Rift. The creators just released a fuller, bigger, more complete, and better copy of this amazing little film. And it's released in brilliant universal MPEG format, so if you can't view it, it's your own fault.

  15. Arh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's what I call slow, I usually get over 1.3Mb/s now I only get 25k/s.

    Slashdot'ed or what?

    1. Re:Arh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, I usually gets over 547MB/s and now I'm only getting 60b/s. Slashdotted or what?

  16. Re:hopefully it won't get _too_ much coverage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lucasarts has been relatively friendly in the past about fan fic. They only seem to complain about things when fans are directly affecting their profit.

  17. Star Wars in ACSIImation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I apologize for dipping off-topic (slightly) here, but does anybody know what happened to the Star Wars that was done in ASCII/Java? It was good and pretty complete up till Obi Wan says "these aren't the droids you're looking for". I thought the idea was original, but I can't find it anymore. A google search gives the old page, but no dns entry exists anymore. Sad, cause I really liked it.

  18. I HATE QUICKTIME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why do people still use this horrible codec? The player software sucks and is buggy to say the least (well, maybe not on a mac.) I don't eevn bother to download anything that is quicktime anymore. Every quicktime player, even 4, completely screws up my system.

  19. stop downloading star wars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    get downloading porn you know it makes sense....

  20. Re:Flaming Ewoks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I heard a rumour that Ray Winstone will be playing a Jedi.

  21. Re:Have we had enough of this shit yet ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I hear a rumour that Vinnie Jones will be playing a dark jedi in the next film.

  22. Re:Check the guestbook... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I heard rumour that Charles Napier will play an old wizened crazy jedi in the next movie.

  23. Re:A defense of The Phantom Menace: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I heard a rumour that John Cleese will a hotel manager in the next star wars film.

  24. Re:Copyright? Try parody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As with Troops, legally in court a lawyer could argue this is parody, therefore protected. Since Lucas saw the humor in Troops, this was not tested in a court of law. Since this involves Titanic, I'm curious how they'll react. It's obviously parody, so common sense says that they can get away with it. I'm curious to see it tested at some point...

  25. Re:Haha... and www.thumb.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  26. Forgive me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Forgive me for sounding lame, but who the hell is MAE LING MAK, and what is meant by the term "NAKED AND PETRIFIED" ?

  27. FIRST SUPERIOR POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    THIS IS A
    S
    M
    A
    R
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    ANNOUNCEMENT!

    So, you heard about the smargle. You've heard how the smargle is superior. But now you want to know, "how do I join the ranks of the smargle?"

    That's what this announcement is about.

    If you wish to join the ranks of the smargle, you have to perform several tasks:

    You must swear an oath to the smarglepriest in smargleland.

    Then you have to fill out a bunch of smargleforms on smarglepaper.

    If accepted, you will be notified. In such a case, you must see a smargledoctor, also in smargleland.

    The smargledoctor will transform into the smargle of choice.

    KNOWN TYPES OF SMARGLES:

    The fish smarglegoblin. You can't transform into one of these yet, because no smargle has ever seen a fish. Only a fish smarglegoblin. And we don't know how to make you one. So there.

    The blue smarglegoblin. You can't transform into one of these, either. These are specialties. And very strange. You can't be strange by choice. Only by birth. So there - again.

    The fuzzy smarglegoblin. You can transform into one of these. Fuzzy smarglegoblins stay in either normal land or the city portion of smargleland. They are fuzzy. And good.

    The scaled smargle or scaled smarglegoblin. If you choose to be a scaled smarglegoblin, you're just uglier than a smargle. And dumber. A lot dumber. They are scaled. And bad.

    All non-blue smargles are orange. More smargles are discovered rather commonly, but rarely documented for non-smargles. Non-smargles don't deserve such information. They just deserve to know our superiority, how to become a smargle, and other announcements.

    The smargle frep (myself) highly recommends that all new smargles become a fuzzy smarglegoblin. Fuzzy smarglegoblins are not uglier than fuzzy smargles, nor dumber, like scaled smargles are to scaled smarglegoblins. They're just cuter. That's how good works. They get good things if they have longer names. Understand? In any case, you should join the fuzzy smarglegoblins because they always win. Always.

    That's about it. And remember - smargles are superior. Even scaled smargles.

    You may now look to your right.

    Continue.
    - smargle frep

    1. Re:FIRST SUPERIOR POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You won't succeed, you dirty scaled smarglegoblin!

      You may now look to your right.

      Thank you.
      - smargle frep

    2. Re:FIRST SUPERIOR POST! by Shin+Elendale · · Score: 1
      And nowwwwww i'm frightened...
      I declare myself the first Smargle Hunter!
      I will hunt down and destroy all smargles! Yeah! With my Kustom-built Mega Blaster I can vaporize legions in a single shot! DIE FOOLS!

      -Elendale (*wave* bye karma)

      --

      IANAT (I Am Not A Troll)

  28. Re:EVEN MORE AMAZING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yeah... we've also got in our local cahe by now.

  29. Re:Haha... and www.thumb.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Amusing? It's some deranged (evidently Jewish, from what was posted) guy trying to swear as much as he can about something he knows a little about. Now, please... How much can you actually know about southerners if you don't know what a frickin' confederate flag is? From what I read he is a closed-minded reverse-racist in need of a severe reality check. I especially liked the claim that there is still slavery going on in the U.S. -- not "there is still racism", mind you, because there is, but he said slavery.

    Hesiod, the bored

  30. dont mean to be rude...butt.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How old is this shit???? im sure i saw it posted on /. way last year, emmett get your ass in gear son.

  31. Re:Haha... and www.thumb.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I must say this site *is* actually fairly amusing, eventhough it's advertised in a troll. Check it out!

  32. Re:Like I said Slashdot Smashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's not really that overrated, its just that usually the sites that get "/."'ed are small ISPs with some guy's web page about something cool. Obviously huge sites don't get killed, they are expecting that kind of traffic on a regular day.

  33. More big news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You know, I've been looking at that arsTechnica slashbox on the front page for months waiting for them to post something new. Then today, I accidentally clicked on it, and guess what? THEY'VE BEEN POSTING ARTICLES ALL ALONG! Don't believe anything you read here, all of the real news that the government doesn't want us to know about is at this site.

  34. Re:mirror in australia now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    mirror.aarnet is the best! (for any downloads)
    Whenever I want anything (eg latest quake3 downloads, mozilla or this) I allways go there first... and whatever I want will be there!

    Kudos to the maintainers (like Jason) for making
    Australia a much saner place to download in!

  35. Braggin about download time= no life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too funny, nerds bragging about download times for a mediocre Quicktime film. Hey guys, I've got a great site for you to check out, www.getalife.com or perhaps try www.waaaytoomuchfreetime.com.

  36. Re:In future... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just WTF does this have to do with the original post? Haven't you had your daily dose of valium yet?!

  37. Re:Xanim will play all these movies! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It will only help you play QuickTime files wherein the video is encoded using the Cinepak codec; it won't help you play any Sorensen-encoded QuickTime files, alas. :-(

  38. HANS SOLO PETRIFIED AND FROZEN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  39. Stop complaining about no quicktime for linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I know this will be a troll so posting AC.
    I happen to work for a certan company that starts with an A and ends with pple. The reasion that apple has not seen fit to release quicktime for linux is:
    1. The codecs are expensive to buy. We paid millions of dollars for them.
    2. Would the average linux user buy quicktime pro?
    3. There are other places on the internet other than slashdot. Yes, I know that most of you are linux users, but 95% of the internet users aren't.

    Now before you flame me, I use linux at home for my network. I am a big fan of Open Source Software. If you had a product that was one of the bigger money makers for your company, would you give it away free so that others could copy it?
    Sadly, the heads of Apple think not.

    1. Re:Stop complaining about no quicktime for linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Really, it's not about "QuickTime" the file format anyway - there's software available for Linux (and other UNIX-like platforms) that supports reading and writing QuickTime quite happily.

      The issue is, first and foremost, the more commonly used codecs in "QuickTime 4" - that is, Sorenson video and that QDesign Music audio, neither of which are currently support by most people's player of choice, XAnim.

      The ire exists because (apparently) Sorenson has already been approached and they claimed Apple wouldn't let Sorenson licence the codec to anyone else. Further, other codecs are supported in binary-only form and nobody's complaining about those, yet Apple persists in denying Linux users access to the codec used by most QuickTime publishers these days.

      Really, what does Apple hope to achieve? It's not encouraging people to buy Macs (or to run Windows) and it's not encouraging them to participate in open source development with Apple.

      If they'd just relent and permit a binary-only codec for XAnim (as other vendors have done) then the whole furore would disappear and Apple wouldn't be seen by many as being so anti-developer (anti-open source, anti-Linux, anti-whatever...). It's not like people will "copy" a binary-only implementation for XAnim any more easily than reverse engineering the players for Windows or the Mac...

  40. Re:Again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    *sigh* even if it was, does it matter? There are new people coming to the 'net and to slashdot every day and not all of them read the back logs. I bet that there a great deal of people finding this for the first time today. Reposting something like this, even if it is by accident, 6 months since others have seen it, is perfectly alright. Now if it were something like every 1 month that this got reposted, then I would have to agree with you. An occasional refresher, even on a "News" site, is not a bad thing.

    -Steve X who is at school and didn't feel like logging in

  41. Re:A defense of The Phantom Menace: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah, thanks for that big block of unformatted text, made it real easy for my eyes to just glaze over it...


    Boink

  42. No, this is NOT flame bait, my true feelings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I wish George Lucas would be matter transported to the deck of the Titanic and the Deathstar would destroy it for real so that this nonsense will end!

    No grits, no Portwood, no petrificatin, just NOTHING!

    UGH

  43. Re:Flaming Ewoks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You forgot about the guy in the lifeboat getting his head blown off - but yes, those were extremely well done. Great flick. Only, I couldn't read most of the text in the RealVideo version. Haven't tried QuickTime but I don't have a player under Linux (is there one?) for that.

  44. My Fart Will Go On. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Saw it. Loved it. My only regret is that they didn't show Leonardo Dicrappio getting nuked by a photon torpedo.

  45. Re:mirror in australia now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ta lots Jason for the aarnet.edu.au mirror - getting the large version at a sweet (for me!) ~70K/s from inside Aus.

  46. Re:Hardware Wars site... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've seen it. I think it's pretty silly. Has a bunch of home appliances flying around and it was filmed in the 70s I think.

  47. Re:boring!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    i love you, man!

  48. Have we had enough of this shit yet ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Really, look at the quality of the posts on slashdot.. for christs sake. I'm have to sift through the crap to find anything worth reading.. Is slashdot ever going to get rid of anonymous postings ?

    I know a lot of people that dont bother post because they figure it'll just get lost in the garbage and wasteland of spam here... if we got rid of this crap we'd have a lot worth reading here on slashdot.. as it stands now, 2 out of every 150 posts is worthy of looking at.

    Somebody said once that we need anonymous coward so people can speak their mind without fear of retribution, or reveal some secrets about the latest inside word.. etc, etc, ... Look at the news sources on slashdot and other websites. 90% of it comes from people would *Wish to Remain anonymous*... yet we have no idea if its true, a rumour, hearsay, a fabrication, etc... so whats the fucken point of having AC anyways, let them tell their Dirty Secrets to ABC news (Is slashdot really about uncovering the truth ????????? I dont think so.. Were just here to talk about Geek news.)


    p.s. let me tell you a secret, I work for microsoft, and I'm lead engineer of the microsoft society of politics and propaganda. Were spearheading a campaign into discrediting linux with false advertisements and utter blasphemy, in newspapers, websites, television and radio.. its great being able to hide being anonymous coward so i can tell you all these dirty secrets

    everything i say is true, no you cant verify it, but since i'm anonymous coward I must be telling the truth...

    1. Re:Have we had enough of this shit yet ? by Claude+Debussy · · Score: 1

      funny you mention this, 95% of the slashdot posts I dont even bother to read the comments anymore because the filth and trash that clutters up, piles up, then saturates my bandwidth isn't worth reading... usually seeing the headline is enough. Id like to post more often, but why?

  49. Re:In future... by voltron · · Score: 0
  50. EVEN MORE AMAZING by NatePWIII · · Score: 0

    Hey, I'm downloading this thing at over 450k/sec. Undoubtably unbelievable. Did I spell that right?

    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
    "Get your domain name for only $45"


    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    NPS Internet Solutions, LLC

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    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    www.haidacarver.com
  51. Like I said Slashdot Smashdot... by NatePWIII · · Score: 0

    This whole slashdot thing is overated. Come on do you seriously think we are going to bring down a sight like this. They are hosted on heavy duty load balancing servers that can probably take up to a 100,000 simultaneous hits. I mean not to put slashdot down but seriously /. doesn't get even close to that kind of traffic. I just downloaded the whole 18megs at 500kilobits/sec. The /. effect is not a myth but it is slightly overated.

    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
    "Get your domain name for only $45"


    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    NPS Internet Solutions, LLC

    --

    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    www.haidacarver.com
    1. Re:Like I said Slashdot Smashdot... by NatePWIII · · Score: 0

      It is down because... think about it, if you were an ISP or webhost what would you do if a bunch of people were trying to download a big 48Mb file from your server. They shut it down on purpose no doubt, and I can hardly blame them. Webhosts aren't stupid, I know because I am one. Do you really think that the downloading of a 48MB file is going to go unnoticed for very long? Of course not. They probably monitor their bandwidth just like everyone else and when they saw it jumping up a few notches, they tracked down the culprit, found out where the hits were coming from, and promptly removed the file. Whether you can call this a "server down due to slashdot" is your call. I just call it wise system administration. Why let someone eat up all your resources...

      Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
      NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
      "Get your domain name for only $45"


      Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
      NPS Internet Solutions, LLC

      --

      Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
      www.haidacarver.com
    2. Re:Like I said Slashdot Smashdot... by Yakumo · · Score: 1

      And you are full of it. Can you explain to me, then, why the server is down completely now, and why earlier the 48mB movie wasn't available at all??

      --
      "'And upon his forehead shall appear the Sign of The Void: the symbol of nothingness'...Tough luck, kid" -Yakumo
  52. Re:Access / Mirrors by NatePWIII · · Score: 0

    I think we can mirror it on our server here just for the fun of it. But I need to download it first from the site you are trying to access and I can't get in either.

    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
    "Get your domain name for only $45"


    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    NPS Internet Solutions, LLC

    --

    Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
    www.haidacarver.com
  53. Can WINE run Quicktime? by volkris · · Score: 1

    Has anybody tried to run Quicktime through WINE?
    Maybe it would play the movies and our troubles are (partially) solved.

    ~Chris

  54. Re:Player for Linux? by jirka · · Score: 1
    Same here.

    All of this proprietary crap that only has one really bad player that only works on some versions of some operating systems is just driving me nuts.

    I think there need to be some open standards for audio and video and people should follow them. I think this is the area that free software philosophy really needs to invade next.

  55. Xanim will play all these movies! by valen · · Score: 1

    Get & install the Radius Cinepak Codec, and you can play QuickTime movies.

  56. Didn't work for me... by jtseng · · Score: 1

    When I tried to play TIETanic, I got:

    Unknown or unsupported animation type: Tie-Tanic.mov

    And when I tried to play Troops, I got:

    Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)
    Audio Codec: QDesign Music Codec (QDMC) not yet supported.

    So if you could please tell me how you did it.

    --

    Sanity.html - Error 404 not found

  57. Again? by fatboy · · Score: 1

    Was this not posted 6 months ago???

    --
    --fatboy
  58. Re:Player for Linux? by Fozz · · Score: 1
    I don't understand why people use these formats, when good ol' MPEG and AVI work just fine, and have players for virtually everything.

    As much as I detest Apple's decision to keep Quicktime technology on the Windows and Macintosh platforms for the time being, I have to hail them for what they've done. Quicktime v3 and v4 hail the best video compression and video streaming technology available. Nothing else comes close.

    Now that Mac OS X is based on BSD Unix, we'll probably get a lot closer to Quicktime for /.*n[iu]x/.

  59. Re:Player for Linux? by Cid+Highwind · · Score: 1

    This is the mentality that keeps us from getting better multimedia players for linux. Apple, M$, et al. aren't going to release their codecs as open source. If they think all Linux users are rabid open-source zealots, we are never going to get decent video players. You don't see the quicktime source being released on other platforms, do you? Why should Linux get it if nobody else does?

    The whole open-source text is better than proprietary video mentality has got to go.

    --
    0 1 - just my two bits
  60. Site from whence I can obtain the mythical Troops? by mkoscica · · Score: 1

    Hi.


    Bored @ work.


    Might someone provideth an address from whence one couldst obtain a copy of thy aforementioned "Troops"...?

  61. /. effect by zCyl · · Score: 1

    I see tons of posts put up right after this story was released that are surprised at how the slashdot effect didn't destroy it, and responses that the slashdot effect isn't that powerful. Well, it's almost 24 hours after the story was posted, and the site isn't working for me. Does anyone who has been slashdotted have a graph of when or how long peak slashdot effect times are?

  62. Impressive! by jawad · · Score: 1

    I was thoroughly impressed with their video & audio editing as well. Great dubbing! Great bandwith too, i got well over 200k/sec on the download (on cable modem, I rarely get even close to 200).

  63. mirror in australia now by jason+andrade · · Score: 1

    i've put a mirror up for the australian folks ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/starwars/TIE-TANIC- small.mov (or -medium or -large) -jason

  64. Old News by datalife · · Score: 1

    This is really old news. A heard about it at least half year ago in a german radio show (bayern 3)

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    There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
  65. hopefully it won't get _too_ much coverage by ywwg · · Score: 1

    The whole thing screams "copyright infringment," which is too bad because the it is so funny. If it gets too popular, the site operator is gonna get a "pull this pirated crap down NOW" email from some friendly studio lawyers...
    With that in mind, try to keep the thing semi-quiet :)

    (First relavent POST!)

    1. Re:hopefully it won't get _too_ much coverage by Robert+Hayden · · Score: 1

      It's a parody, which is a valid defense against copyright. Lucas and Cameron have no real chance unless they just wanna scare the person into folding.

    2. Re:hopefully it won't get _too_ much coverage by sredding · · Score: 1

      Troops is hilarious. I think it's one of the best made parodies of Star Wars.

      Here's the URL: http://www.theforce.net/troops/

      I'm rather curious to see what parodies result from the movie Ender's Game.

      cheers,

    3. Re:hopefully it won't get _too_ much coverage by nlamsben · · Score: 1

      Does anyone remember Troups? The parady based on Cops (the US TV series) with the stormtroupers from Star Wars? George Lucas let them make that as long as they made no profit from it.

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    4. Re:hopefully it won't get _too_ much coverage by balthan · · Score: 1

      A strict parody wouldn't be a problem, but this contains copyrighted movie footage.

  66. Re:...the 'next millenium' by SeanAhern · · Score: 1

    Heck, they even mistyped "phenomena" as "phenomenons".

    -Sean

  67. Re:Player for Linux? by delmoi · · Score: 1

    Well, the DVD people couldn't just use anything they wanted. If quicktime really is better they still would have had to pay apple shitloads of money for every DVD player sold. MPEG was free.

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  68. Re:Player for Linux? by networkz · · Score: 1

    Quicktime IS the basis for MPEG 4.

    See this link for more.

  69. Re:Player for Linux? by vectro · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I am trying to _reduce_ my dependency on proprietary software. So I will not install anything new unless it is free software.

    Note that I mean free as in speech, not beer.

  70. Hardware Wars site... by SvnLyrBrto · · Score: 1


    I've never seen it available for download, but for $9.95 (plus shipping & handling) you can order the special edition at:

    http://www.mwp.com/mwp/Hardwars.html

    Excelent short flick.... definately worth it.


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  71. Re:The Original Star Wars Parody by razzmataz · · Score: 1

    Ah, haven't seen it on the net, but I remember it quite well. I loved the battle on the death star (which was a waffle iron) where they were using power drills as blasters.

    Absolutly hillarious.

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  72. Mirror for "light" version of video... by Bacteriophage · · Score: 1
    zipped up to 14.1MB
    Don't crash me now!!! :)
    ftp://bacteriophage.dynip.com
    log in as anonymous

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  73. Re:Other funny parodies / short films (thumb.com) by antdude · · Score: 1

    http://www.thumb.com

    Don't forget Thumb Wars!

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  74. Re:There's more where that came from... by TheQ · · Score: 1

    Your right I saw troops a couple of years ago and just laughed my ass off. I heard that Kevin Rubio go a major motion picture deal. I'd like to see more of his stuff......

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  75. SIM WARS came first... by captaineo · · Score: 1

    What about SIM WARS , a Star-Wars-meets-Titanic short created by Meni Tsirbas, Rusty Ippolito, and Andy Lesniak, the digital artists behind the "sinking simulation" for the real Titanic movie...

  76. Another Star Wars Parody by silent_knight · · Score: 1

    I don't know if this has been mentioned, but another nice parody involving Star Wars and the Titanic can be found at http://www.trimension.com/SimWars.htm

  77. Slashdotted, but here's a mirror by Joel+Rowbottom · · Score: 1
    I've set up a mirror on my own box at http://www.jml.net/tietanic/. Both large and small QT versions are there.

    BTW, it seems to play fine on QT3.

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  78. Re:from their disclaimer by bug-eyed+monster · · Score: 1

    So suppose that instead of publishing an , slashdot posted their URL as plain text. Most of us slashdot readers would have no problem copying and pasting the URL to go to their page anyway, still creating the slashdot effect without ever using an actual link.

  79. Re:from their disclaimer by bug-eyed+monster · · Score: 1

    [Buggy software ate my encodings...]

    So suppose that instead of publishing an <a href...>, slashdot posted their URL as plain text. Most of us slashdot readers would have no problem copying and pasting the URL to go to their page anyway, still creating the slashdot effect without ever using an actual link.</wiseguy>

  80. How did you find us? by pnevares · · Score: 1

    On their "comments" page, we have -- "How did you find us?"

    No entry for /. ....yet. =)


    Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".

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  81. Macintosh by jw3 · · Score: 1
    No problems with Quicktime 4 plugin.

    Regards,

    January

  82. /.ed too :( by Spond! · · Score: 1

    bumma now you're /.ed too :( su-2.03$ ftp bacteriophage.dynip.com ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> quit

  83. Access / Mirrors by Khopesh · · Score: 1

    could somebody mirror the big 48MB file? the site is so busy that I can't access it - and it's 1:30am!

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  84. Re:Site from whence I can obtain the mythical Troo by Augury · · Score: 1

    Just posted a little below this, but you can find Troops here.

    B.

  85. The Original Star Wars Parody by sherpajohn · · Score: 1

    Was, I think, called "Hardware Wars", and was absolutely hilarious...the hardware was small kitchen appliance, Princess Leigh had dansishes for hair "buns".....I beleive it was done by some film students in LA, anyone seen it on the net?

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  86. 48 megger seriously /.'ed by DeeezNutz · · Score: 1
    Could someone *please* mirror the 48 meg version?

    Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

  87. MPEG by Gandalf_007 · · Score: 1
    Clarification:
    MP3 audio==MPEG Layer 3
    MP2 audio==MPEG 1, Layer 3
    MPEG2 (DVD)==MPEG 2, layer 1

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  88. Re:A defense of The Phantom Menace: by Mezz · · Score: 1

    Thank you for realizing that this is merely the opening chapter of a story that we already know the ending too, and, as such, exists merely to set up the last three films. I personally think that episodes 2 & 3 will end up being better than the final ones; I mean, we're going to have the destruction of the Old Republic, the extermination of the Jedi, and the next to last battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin (sure to blow away Darth Maul's scenes). any thoughts?

  89. Re:A defense of The Phantom Menace: by Mezz · · Score: 1

    And that would make Kevin Kline Anakin, Darth Vader, Amidala, and several of the Jedi, right?

  90. boring!! by Hulleye · · Score: 1

    Personally found Tie-tanic rather dull, especially when compared to the likes of Troops or even the ascii version of episode iv. Now there was some classy and innovative spoofing!admittedly the editing et. al. in this film was done rather nicely, however i still found it lacking, especially in content. look, i hated Titanic just as much as the next guy/girl/objectionable entity, but the irreverant desecration of the mythos of star wars should not need to involve the utter crap that was Titanic. Star Wars stands in a league by itself and even though i can think of myriad uses that the Death Star may be put to, from the instantaneous vaporisation of Barney to a Brittany Spears zap-a-thon, there is absoloutely no need to keep reminding people how horrible Titanic actually was!! it is a traumatic memory that has passed me by and i hope to grow older, and perhaps not too badly brain damaged!!

    1. Re:boring!! by Nerds · · Score: 1

      Yeah, I get where you're coming from, but at least they only showed the good part of Titanic. You have to admit that they really did a good job on that whole sinking thing. Now if only it had a plot, who knows what they could have accomplished...

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  91. Check the guestbook... by Nerds · · Score: 1

    Looks like Howard Stern was there...

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  92. I can't believe nobody noticed this before, but... by ralian · · Score: 1

    This has been around since July 19, 1999 on scifi.ign.com's The Funny Pages (http://scifi.ign.com/feature/2233.html). It's a great page with tons of hilarious stuff like this, such as "Park Wars" and outtakes of Star Trek and Thundercats.

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  93. I uploaded a Linux version by xtremex · · Score: 1

    I have converted the AVI file into a RealPlayer 5.0 version for us Linux users to download. It is not streaming however. It was encoded for a LAN, so it has better quality. Grab it at
    ftp://ftp.mainnetworkcenter.com/pub/tie-tanic.rm

    It's about 750k

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  94. Mirrored MOV as well by xtremex · · Score: 1

    I mirrored the smaller MOV QT file as well (17 MB)
    Get it at
    ftp://ftp.mainnetworkcenter.com/pub/TIE-TANIC_sm all.mov

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  95. A defense of The Phantom Menace: by GriffX · · Score: 1

    ***WARNING - SLIGHTLY O.T. ARGUMENT ABOUT THE NEW STAR WARS*** That's so clever. I would like to believe that the so-called 'backlash' against the newest Star Wars movie has begun to stabilize and even reverse. We are no longer being subjected to the critics' indictments of Jar-Jar, the fan-boys have stopped their wailing that the movie failed to satisfy every fantasy of what the world's best movie should be, and now I think we can actually talk about the movie for what it actually was... Aside from me, who will come out and admit that sitting there in the theatre and before they went home and got online to read everyone else's comments actually really dug the Phantom Menace? Yes, there wasn't much to it, yes Jar Jar was kind of annoying (although I rather enjoyed him) but - Most of us were rather young when we first enjoyed the Star Wars trilogy - these are movies that are made to be accessible to kids, I think this new film is no different from the others and nobody should be condemning it because they expected it to be the equal in complexity to the Dune cycle - if nothing seemed to happen in this film, keep in mind that Lucas didn't have to re-explain an existing universe to billions of fans in 1977, he just had to throw out a bunch of characters and had no call to worry about people's pre-existing feelings about them or the worlds they inhabited. Also - this new cycle is going to stretch from Darth Vader's childhood all the way through the Clone Wars through the end of Return of the Jedi, so Lucas has a lot to do and he is to be forgiven for throwing a lot of exposition out front in the first film. Thank you for your time.

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  96. Player for Linux? by yootis1 · · Score: 1

    How do you guys play this on linux? Xanim 2.80.1 doesn't work for me

    1. Re:Player for Linux? by yootis1 · · Score: 1

      I haven't played it yet (slashdotted), but I dl'ed a G2 alpha for linux earlier today. Maybe it will do the streaming version, which I hadn't seen earlier. I guess we're out of luck on the Quicktime one though.

    2. Re:Player for Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2
      Quicktime IS the basis for MPEG 4.

      "MPEG 4" (MPEG I Layer 4) is for Internet streaming video products with low bitrates, not for stored video files (larger, but if you play them back from your hard disk the bitrate/quality is much higher), nor for DVDs or Digital TV (the last two using "MPEG 2" - that is, "MPEG I Layer 2").

      Since in 99.9% of these cases we're not streaming video but downloading a complete file to play essentially "offline", why can't we just use MPEG 2 (a la DVDs/DTV)? If a better codec is needed, why can't that be incorporated into MPEG 2 rather than QuickTime? Since QuickTime the file format is distinct from the compression codecs that determine the actual data within the file, just what the !@#$%^&* is so good about QuickTime anyway?!

      For example, you can't download the all-in-one file version of "TROOPS" because it's a QuickTime 3 file using the (you guessed it!) Sorenson video code and some other unknown (to xanim) audio codec. You can download and play the separate "TROOPS" QuickTime files, but alas there's no freely distributable tools for taking those files and combining them into a single file, be it QuickTime, MPEG, AVI or other. :-(

      Aarrgghh...

    3. Re:Player for Linux? by Joe+Rumsey · · Score: 3

      The G2 version works with the G2 Alpha player for Linux. You can get it from http://proforma.real.com/real /player/linuxplayer.html.

    4. Re:Player for Linux? by Rilke · · Score: 3

      xanim/aktion plays these fine. Just remember to get the necessary codecs from the xanim site. The radius cinepack codec seems to be what you're looking for.

      Because the codecs aren't open sourced, they often aren't included in stock distributions. (for redhat, untar the codec into /usr/lib/xanim).

    5. Re:Player for Linux? by vectro · · Score: 3

      You can't play this if you're using Linux. :(

      Both formats they posted it in are proprietary, with no decent (let alone Free Software) players for anything but Windows/Mac. I don't understand why people use these formats, when good ol' MPEG and AVI work just fine, and have players for virtually everything.

  97. What about Star Lego by luckykaa · · Score: 1

    Anyone seen this? Star wars done with Lego. Or mirrors here

  98. Star Wars: Spoof-O-Rama by Gray_Wolf · · Score: 1

    Ah... yet another really kick ass cool and spiffy sweet awesome Star Wars Spoof. Reminds me of instant classics such as 'Troops' and 'George Lucas in Love' (I've actually met the guy who came up with that idea, plus I know someone who KNOWS him, and no I'm not kidding). But you have to commend these people who put in the time and effort to make these great spoofs. I haven't seen this particular one yet, but as with the many others out there it has to be hilarious. ^_^

    The Gray Wolf

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  99. Troopers! by DoubleG · · Score: 1

    I havent watched it yet but this reminds me of the Star Wars spoof of Cops called Troopers. Hilariously funny and extremely well done, if anyone knows of a site that has this awesome movie I would appreciate a URL

  100. In future... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    ...given the problems us "non-Windows/Mac" users have in playing the multitude of new video formats around these days (given that, for example, there's no QuickTime/Sorensen player for Linux, no G2 player, etc.), could anyone who has managed to successfully play any of these things PLEASE state what software/format they used so that others can go straight to the good stuff rather than spending ages downloading an unusable file?? :-(

  101. The mirrors are history. by heroine · · Score: 2

    You didn't have to be a prophet to know those mirrors were history the moment they got on slashdot. By the way, the color sucks on the enlarged version. I saw it 6 months ago. You can have the most hyped compressor in the world. You can say Linux should never be used for video like all these suits in North Carolina. Your end quality still depends on the human factor.

  102. Actually.... by trims · · Score: 2

    A parody can contain copyrighted footage, even if it is for-profit.

    The sticking point here is exactly how much material are you allowed to use. IANAL, but I think the standard is something similar to "fair-use", or maybe around 10% or so. However, if they are not attempting to profit from it, I think the standard is completely different, and they might be allowed to use more.

    As usual, your milage may vary. Consult a IP lawyer before attempting, et al.

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  103. ...the 'next millenium' by Pope · · Score: 2

    LOL!
    the folks put in all that effort and spelled "millennium" wrong in the opening text crawl!

    It still doesn't beat my 2 favourite Blair Witch parodies: Sergio Aragones' latest comic "Blair Which?" and the *brilliant* Family Circus version.

    Pope

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  104. Other funny parodies / short films by Krimsen · · Score: 2
    Here are some other funny parodies / short films I have found on the net:

  105. from their disclaimer by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 2

    ALL LINKS TO TIE-TANIC.COM BY EXTERNAL WEBMASTERS MUST BE APPROVED BY US. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS HERE.

    I wonder if slashdot got "permission" to link to them? Perhaps the slashdot effect is the very thing they are afriad off.

    Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. Hate leads to... lawyers. ;)

  106. Flaming Ewoks! by Lotek · · Score: 2
    I saw this a while back during the episode one hype (in fact, this hype is referenced in the film.) the editor was a genius...

    My favorite points:

    • Vader, continuing to mutter under his breath.
    • The stormtroopers standing in the shop, with the Titanic behind them out the window.
    • The AT-AT standing on the iceberg
    • Flaming Ewoks! 'Nuff said.
    • a direct strike from the death star on the Titanic!

    Now, the only thing that would have been better is a freezing, drowning Jar-Jar "Meesa Freezin!" holding on to Celine Dion as he slips beneath the ocean's surface... but alas, that horror had yet to be inflicted upon us, or I am sure the editor would have done something along those lines...

    In a related next-movie RUMOR (heard over at aint-it-cool-news.com) Gillian Anderson may be weilding a light saber as a member of the Jedi Council in the next prequel.

    I don't buy it, but you never can tell. It's not like Lucas needs to draw in more fanboys, or anything... heh

  107. 48 mb version is Sorenson by harmonica · · Score: 2

    That means no display for non-Windows, non-Mac users. BTW, I got a pretty fast download of the 48-mb-file. In case it is still needed and someone offers space, I can upload it.

    Is there any free MOV->MPG converter that works on top of an installed QuickTime library (similar to those AVI-to-MPG tools for Windows)?

    For all future video goodies, someone could convert files (AVI, MOV, ASF) under Windows to MPG so that everyone can see it...

  108. Haha... and www.thumb.com by antdude · · Score: 2

    I remember this little movie a long time ago. It's a good one to watch. =)

    Anyone watch Thumb Wars? There are other movies too on http://www.thumb.com ...

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  109. There's more where that came from... by Augury · · Score: 2

    Actually, though TIE-Tanic was quite good, TROOPS is a hell of a lot better :)

    B.

  110. 27mb version on mirror site is playable in xanim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    The 27mb version is in radius cinepak, and can be played back by xanim. I don't know about the 48mb version - couldn't connect to that site.
    The streaming versions can be played back with RealPlayer G2, which you can find hidden away at http://proforma.real.com/real/player/linuxplayer.h tml

  111. G2 Linux Player by Joe+Rumsey · · Score: 3
    I posted this in a reply to another post, but I see more people asking/complaining, so here it is again. You can get a G2 Alpha player for Linux from http://proforma.real.com/real /player/linuxplayer.html.

    This is an alpha version, don't expect perfection. But it did work on the G2 version of this video for me.

  112. Fast mirror (18, 28, 50 meg) by slashdot-me · · Score: 4

    Well, it's fast now. We'll se what happens when the /. effect kicks in. I have the 18, 28, and 48 meg quicktime versions. Only the 28 meg one seems to work with xanim.

    http://www.ryans.dhs.org/tie-tanic.html

    Ryan Salsbury