Slashdot Mirror
Alternate Audio Tracks for Movies
Patrick Stein writes "DVD Tracks is a forum for the distribution
of home-brew, alternate audio tracks for movies.
Inspired by Roger Ebert's column in Yahoo!Internet Life entitled You, Too, Can Be a DVD Movie Critic, DVD Tracks puts
you behind the microphone to talk about your
favorite flicks." Cool idea, but there's only one track. (Groundhogs day?)
Mplayer for *nix does this.
It lets you sink anything from an mp3, ac3, or raw wav file i think.You can even adjust the delay timing to get it right. It also pauses like normal.
The latest batch of MST3K DVDs to have been released have this feature. Or rather, they're double-sided DVD's with the original cut of the movie on one side and the MiSTed cut on the other.
Hmmm. After further investigation it appears that the tracks are hosted elsewhere and you upload them to your server and just link to them. Better for the dude that runs the site, but unfortunately that type of setup usually ends up in a high percentage of broken links. I'll cross my fingers and hope it works though. It's a promising idea.
Mystery Science Theater 3000
The time of day is 29:33.
MST3k means "Mystery Science Theater 3000". It was a television show where a bad movie was shown in the background, and in the foreground there was a shadow of some recurring characters (Joel/Mike, Crow, Tom Servo) so that it looked like the recurring characters were watching the movie inside a theater. The recurring characters heckled the movie. (It was a lot funnier than it sounds.)
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Check out the Internet Movie Database if you haven't already. You can find opinions/ratings from a wide variety of individuals, and submit your own opinions on movies. A good general source on movie information. It would be cool if they started linking to alternate audio tracks as well..
No one is suggesting modifying DVDs or distributing DVDs or distributing copyrighted material. This site is simply for a way to distribute home-brew audio tracks which can
be used in conjunction with DVDs or other movies.
However, there's apparently only one track on this site - I listened to the Groundhog Day track and it's certainly not bad. The guy admits he doesn't have filler commentary for every scene on the screen and the microphone rattle in the beginning reveals a limited amount of preparation, so for what it's worth it's certainly a nice first try. I been to Punxsutawney couple times, and love Groundhog Day the Movie, so it was rather interesting to listen to the guy's comments.
I think perhaps though it was premature to feature this site on slashdot - don't you think you should have waited until there was a few more tracks on there? As it is, it looks like a thousand people are gonna download the same track - it would have made a better impression if you had let it mature a bit. All the same, it would be nice to see more things like this. It's a good and creative way to 'share' stuff without pirating. :)
Actually, the past four MST3K DVDs have not had this feature. The last to do this were "The Wild, Wild World Of Batwoman" and "The Beginning Of The End", which were released in March 2001.