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TIE-Tanic Movie

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the evil-empire-vs-chick-flick dept.

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.

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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  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.

  6. 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