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Star Trek: New Voyages, Downloadable Video
tm2b writes "What if you could make new episodes of the original Star Trek, with the same characters, worse acting (believe it or not), better special effects, and lower resolution? It seems that some fans secured the Roddenberry family's support for doing just that. They call it Star Trek: New Voyages and they've completed one full episode and and working on another to be released in August. They plan to pick up with the fourth year of the "five year mission," and the first episode can be downloaded in zipped WMV format. It's worth checking out if you can ignore acting that actually makes you yearn for the quality of the original cast. Personally, I love seeing what they can do rendering the old ST tech with modern CGI."
Here are links for the files in Overnet / Edonkey format:
Star Trek New Voyages Teaser.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_1.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_2.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_3.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_4.zip
Star Trek New Voyages Episode_Trailer.zip
Star Trek New Voyages Series_Trailer.zip
Someone post the Torrents pls!
Someone already said this, but I'll expound
If you don't zip then people can stream it off your server, if they end up watching it multiple time then that's additional bandwidth off your server, if you zip it they have to DL it and are more likely to just remember they have it localy and rewatch it from there.
zipping seemed stupid to me till I found this out.
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Overnet already does something kind of like this.
That's Khan not Kahn.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/combined
"what's the point in zipping a WMV file ???"
.WMV file that's 100 megabytes. When you click on it, WMP fires up and sits there and does NOTHING until the whole 100 meg file is down. It appears to be frozen, and you have NFI how much you have left to XFER. If you try to start another media file that WMP monopolizes, it just kills the transfer as opposed to opening a new window. If you put it in ZIP format, you know how long it'll take to get, and you don't have WMP sitting around in limbo. Pretty lame, huh?
Probably to fix some stupidness with Microsoft's Media Player. Let's say you link to a
"Derp de derp."
Yeah, Winamp work just fine and so does Media Player Classic. Probably a lot more too. This is because Windows Media Video is just a simple DirectPlay codec AFAIK, and any media players supporting DirectPlay (basically all does) can play that WMV movie.
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Starship Exeter is not as bad as Hidden Frontier.
;^)
Starship Exeter: Done old-school style, and the actors are not that horrible to watch. I even feel nostolgic just watching it, pining for the good old days.
Hidden Frontier: Done with schnazzy new graphics, but the actors want to make you scream. I mean, apparently, Star Fleet's Weight-Loss Program just isn't as effective in TNG time or something. This show proves that very large people who can barely fit into obviously home-tailored uniforms still hs the ability to make me nauseous.
I'll have to check out the new episodes I haven't yet seen on Starship Exeter (last I checked before today they just had the first one completed and the next was still months away from production).
And for this new one, well, sheessh, it's just something else to kill yet more time with this evening.
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Haven't you been paying attention? According to Enterprise, history NEEDS a dumbass.
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Well, if they configured their web server they wouldn't have to screw around like that :)
.WMV files with a content type like 'application/octet-stream' instead of whatever video/* type they default to. This will tell the browser to download it as a file instead of streaming and displaying it. As far as I'm aware MSIE has been respecting content-types with every version after 4.0.
The need to tell their webserver to send
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