New Animatrix Trailer Available

hin writes "The new trailer of the Animatrix is available for download from www.whatisthematrix.com. Check out the medium resolution version." Use the broadband if you got it I guess ;)

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high-resolution download

[MiTEG]

Link to Hi-res (104487 KB)

Hammer away- I just finished downloading :)

The Complete Works

[Ken@WearableTech]

You can find two complete works at www.intothematrix.com
They are The Second Renaissance Part 1 and Program (Both QuickTime)

You can also see Final Flight of The Osiris at the theaters with Dreamcatcher or with your favorite P2P software.

DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini

[mgpeter]

I went to DreamCatcher tonight with my wife and my daughter (a Stephen King Fan), and after all the previews they showed a 10 minute (or so) Animatrix Mini called "Final flight of the Osirus" and I have got to say I was Totally Embarrassed.

I could not believe the fight scene (or should I say SEX SCENE) at the beginning. Whoever they got to do the animation needs to go get some, and soon!

If the Matrix Movies are going to be more like that short, the sequel is going to blow worse than Caddyshack 2.

The Title is correct.

[mesach]

This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES, its not a new EPISODE, i did catch the first few seconds, and it does have alot of new stuff.

So just to clear up the confusion (wasn't this release a few weeks ago) for those who dont read the actual article or cant get to the link cause of the almighty /. effect.

This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES OF 9 EPISODES, of which 2 have already been released.

The deal with the first frame

[benwaggoner]

Specifically, the movies seem to have been encoded with Discreet's Cleaner, using the "High Quality First Frame" option set to JPEG instead of Basic. This feature dates from the Cinepak CD-ROM era, where the Cinepak codec had low maximum quality for still images. This feature would make the first frame a JPEG, giving better quality for the one frame that tends to get stared at the most, especially with web-based progressive download.

Of course, since the movie uses Sorenson Video 3.1 Pro, which does just fine with still images, they should have either left the feature off, or just used the Basic mode, which would have made the first frame a really big keyframe, but in the same codec as the rest of the movie.

Still, this kind of movie is perfectly legal in QuickTime, and part of the open definition of the format. The format is so complex that no one has made much of an effort to implement more than the 5% or so most commonly used features.

Re:The thing I really like about the animatrix sho

[Bishop923]

IIRC only 4 of the 9 episodes will be downloadable. We already have two and the other two will come out in April and May, then in June they will release the DVD with all 9 episodes.

Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux?

[BJH]

I just did this, so here it goes...

1) Install libsndfile if you don't have it. (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/#Download )

2) Install faac to get sound on the trailer (http://faac.sourceforge.net/download.php)

3) You probably want to install xvid as well... nothing to do with the Animatrix, but the more codecs, the better, right? (http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html)

4) Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and grab:

Latest Win32 codecpack
QuickTime6 DLLs
QuickTime extra DLLs
RealPlayer9 codecs
XAnim DLLs
MJPEG2000 DLLs
Win32/DMO codecs

Untar them and move them all into someplace like /usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls.

5) Get the latest mplayer source (0.9.0rc5) and run configure with something like this: ./configure --enable-largefiles --with-extraincdir=/usr/local/include --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls

and then do the usual make/su/make install thing.

With any luck, you should be able to play back the trailer.

And who said Linux isn't easy to use, eh?!