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1-Click Blooper Playback for Original Trilogy DVD
John Sheppard writes "Normally you have to jump through cheerios to view Easter eggs on a DVD video, but DVDFILE recently launched a new online app that lets you view the 'bloopers' egg on Star Wars Trilogy Bonus DVD with the click of a mouse. Requirements: Windows, DVD-ROM drive/playback capability, and a copy of the Star Wars Trilogy Bonus DVD. DVDFILE would like feedback on this sort of feature; should we do a lot more eggs?"
Mmmmm...cheerios.
I think these sorts of things should definitely go on in the future. I look forward to seeing the Star Wars one. :-)
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The whole series is just one big blooper nowadays.
a) it would be nice to have a link to this program... b) did anybody else get (appropriate for this story) "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." when clicking on 'read more' ?
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yes. Cross platform would be nice though
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Not everyone has Windows.
Sounds like a great way to pass around one of these meme type things
since the submitter didn't provide a link, here it is: http://www.dvdfile.com/software/eggs/trilogy.html
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Patent infringment. Big time!
The link is http://www.dvdfile.com/software/eggs/trilogy.html
It requries ActiveX install to work--so only those willing to risk IE need apply.
How can I RTFA if there isn't one ?
Hmmm. Spend hours trying to get to some neat thing, or trust windows to find it for me? Maybe I better burn a "backup copy " first :)
Normally I'd just pipe up with some nonsense and hope that someone would say RTFA!!! In this case there is no FA! Perhaps a linky or two would be appreciated by those of us that actually like to RTFA.
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As the DVDs are encrypted and Knoppix doesn't include libdvdcss. This madness must stop!!!
almost any dvd player program on computer lets you choose what you want to watch from the disc(chapter by chapter wise.. i remember watching matrix dvd extras by this way.. waayyyyyy back.)
so those extras have ALWAYS been a click away on pc.
nice advert...
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Just by going through the tracks? I know Media Player Classic allows me to select any track on a DVD and play it. No need to hunt through menus.
Active-X control required? So now we're giving websites direct control of our hardware? All yours, kid.
Surely there's a standard cutlist format that can reference a VIDEO_TS folder?
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Here's 1 click [slashdot.org] Make it easier
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is how much less likely than finding out about these "easter eggs" via web search...
Hrmm....
I suppose a slashdot submission is in order...
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For those interested in doing it the manual way: http://movieweb.com/dvd/eggs/egg.php?upc=024543123 415
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...finally, peoples hunt for the (hidden) Star Wars (Kid) is over?
Where's my free iPod!? Until then, I'll settle for a kiss...
You want us /.ers to use Internet Explorer to use the features on your site? Not only use, but install an ActiveX plug-in for... I like easter eggs, and I'd like you to keep up your work, but I've buried IE so far down in my menus I sometimes forget where it is... And what about us Linux users? A platform independent plug-in would be nicest. I only use IE for Windows Update and online virus scans through trendmicro.com, that's all, and that's not going to change.
My first first post, I think...
should we do a lot more eggs?
Yes.
Why was that so hard?
-Valiss
Actually "John Sheppard" at the beginning of the submission is the link...very cleverly hidden! Almost like an easter egg itself!
This is NOT redundant.
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But seriously folks, only old Koreans use easter eggs.
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Has Amazon sued DVDFILE yet?
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Just go to title 36 on the bonus DVD.
No messing with pressing 1138 on the remote, something that has never worked for me.
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A link would be nice.
I'd really love this for DVDs with virtually unnavigable menus. For example, it takes a lot of work to get to any of the special features on the Memento Special Edition DVD set (or the movie itself if you miss/lose the post-it note it comes with) because they thought it would be cute to test your memory to get to everything. Or, as is the case of the first Harry Potter DVD, when they make you play inane games every time you want to see a particular feature. Can you guys do stuff for that?
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It's redundant because post #11029431 came before it :-P
The fact that i have to use internet explorer to me is not the greatest idea. Secondly i refuse to install the interactual player when my dvd-drive came with better software and yet i still prefer Media Player Classic for dvd playback. Awesome concept the fact that i have to install software to get it to work is not that great.
My verdict: keep it but realize that some of us refuse to install software for that functionality.
Here you go
At least, I assume that's what this story is all about, if so I can live without it.
I don't want, nor need your stinking IE plugins.
Doesn't this violate the DMCA in some way? LucasArts make some very cool stuff but they can be very litigous. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the suits start bristling at this and the letters start flying.
Despite the fact that you're accessing the content on a DVD you purchased for the sake of accessing the content on it.
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but tracking down the eggs is part of the coolness of it, or at least knowing where in general it is but needing to find it.....
I actually enjoy the whole bit of getting to the easter egg, it makes it that much more rewarding to watch it, without being hidden they're just more extra material on the disc. Its the same as easter eggs in software, part of the neatness of it is simply that its hidden there
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If I'm paying for a movie I want to be able to get to all of the functionality any time I want and not have to mess around to access hidden features. It's "fun" maybe once to a certain kind of person - I'm not interested in the puzzle aspect, just get me to the Bytor 'toon NOW dammit!
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My bad, It's the last title on the disc, which is 38, not 36.
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is windoze a necessary evil to unlock the goodness of starwars? (without wasting massive amounts of time)
Get your torrents...
Try putting the Star Wars DVD in a regular player and see if you can find this easter egg.
Seriously.
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They should make it 0.999999999 clicks instead to get around the patent.
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Just do the same thing described here:2 60
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=167
Curse you, Anonymous Coward! You beat me to it.
And it always nice to get rid of prolonged FBI warnings, etc.
I mean, Jar Jar's in a lot of scenes
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How come people like to whine on here about a site they are currently visiting? If you don't like Slashdot than bugger off and stop being a whiner. Besides this part is usually for comments about the current news topic. Not for voicing your /. bias.
What, this far into a Starwars thread and nobody's made a "Han shoots first" crack? Come 'on /., I'm disappointed.
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for kids. When a child uses a VHS-tape he/she just puts in the tape and it starts to play. With DVD you usually get stuck with a layer of menus until the movie (or even the commercials) start. Ok, it is another discussion if kids need to be able to watch movie on their own. Still, especially for those who do not speak english, usability has not got better with the introduction of the DVD. Not that it should be like this, the technology is not the limiting factor here.
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Silly me! There I was using my CD-ROM drive on Mandrake looking for the Easter Egg on my Matrix Reloaded DVD!
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Ah ha, but on an Intel processor 0.99999999999 is one! Actually so is .89 I believe ;)
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Nope. Yup. Nope.
So I won't visit DVDFile.
I hope that upon viewing these bloopers, annoying geeks everywhere will realize that Star Wars isn't real, but instead was a highly sucessful science fiction movie.
Just bypass the menu ui of the dvd.
The extras still have position markers in the vob file, so you can use the low level navigation interfaces of the decoder software to jump to all strange tracks.
And i guess thats just what this software does...
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Are those rips of the original 3 Star Wars films from Laser Disk available yet?
Come on, people! The clock is ticking! I want copies before the Bush Empire starts sending Star Destroyers after file sharers!
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Isn't the point of an Easter eggs that it is hidden?!?!l /.
Some thing that is put in by one of the programmers as a joke
Like the "I wish Bill Gates was dead" easteregg in Word'97 Or Doom 3 - PDA Spam Egg http://www.eeggs.com/items/43260.html/ Or URL:http://faqs.ign.com/articles/544/544857p1.htm
Or the WinXP Windows XP -shut down unexpectantly http://www.eeggs.com/items/37518.html/
Dam blood kids growing up on Win2K and XP., want everything now and it be all graphical. Never saw a command line in there live, or if so only in games is enter the GOD or ammo cheats......
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I sometimes type "mplayer *.vob", and get all the exta's/hidden content without having to mess around....
Its about 5000x easier to just go to Title 38 on a DVD player than wrestling with the Interactual player bullshit and IE.
Here's how to view the bloopers manually
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I'm tired of these sort of things.
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Easter-Eggs (or, hidden stuff) were cool, when they were naturally reachable, because (e.g. in a game) you took a way you normally wouldn't.
But today's easter-eggs remind me more of Mortal Kombat special-finish-him-moves, alt-back-up-fire-X-Z-forward-forward-block-pressa
After all , most people view DVDs on a standalone player , not on a PC. So whats the point of putting in an easter egg that 90% of the people who buy the DVD can't view?
Yep, and the first link in google tells the proper method:
star+wars+dvd+bloopers
Knock yourself out. But make sure to type 11 and not 1 and 1. And wait when it says "wait". This activex thingy is a totally redundant ad. Don't fall in the trap.
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If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
Is a blooper reel really an easter egg? In a presentation this large (the trilogy on DVD) this is typically a menu item.
:)
And while we're on the subject, I'm gonna just put a DVD in my drive and allow a website to run some code. No thanks
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However, consider the FACT that
- This would have never seen the light of day had not blatant tresspassing, theft, and invasion of privacy not taken place
- that because it was so arguably funny and because said kid didn't handle it well, the thieving sneaks got a "get out of facing the results of your choices" card
Think of those situations, real or urban legend, where a girl is raped and later you find that she was walking alone in an alley, at night, wearing rather revealing clothes to get to her car after the ol Holiday party. As a defense (DEFENSE mind you) you will hear that she obviously was to blame because of her poor choices. No, her choices are mitigating factors for the defense.The defendant's choice to rape and assault the woman still far outweighs any choice of clothes or other foolishness by the victim.
Thankfully the Star Wars Kid's situation is so much better than a rape victims, yet still shouldn't we not let ourselves be ruled by the stupider side of us? (i.e. make excuses and actually pawn off the blame on the victim because we don't like thinking too hard)
I am confused - given that all the files are accessible via the file system, could you not find the Easter eggs by simply manually playing the files one by one?
What would be so hard about simply having a *gasp* text file saying "CD Such-and-such, play file FOO111.VOB time offset 12:34.56 for this egg".
Then you could have programs to parse that file and do the dirty work if you cannot do it yourself.
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DVDFILE would like feedback on this sort of feature; should we do a lot more eggs?
Why don't you ask your readers? Duh.
My personal favorite is in the Mallrats DVD. If you go into setup (I think) there is a robot to the side. Select the robot until his eyes light up, then hit enter. A video comes up of Kevin Smith ridiculing you for trying to find Easter eggs, telling you that you didn't actually find one, and to get out of your parent's basement and live life instead of wasting time trying to find bonus scenes in DVDs. Then he says failing that, you should go to his store in Redbank, NJ.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I have the Star Wars DVDs, and all you need to do to see the bloopers is jump to the last chapter on the DVD.
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/05/13/finding_.sh tml
You can even donate money for his troubles so he can get an ipod.
So nobody misunderstands me, I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and have been since a very early age. I have collected the comics, played the RPGs, etc.
But as far as this DVD collection is concerned, don't bother. In my opinion its not worth the plastic its pressed on.
The easter egg(s), whatever it is, can't be that good to make it worth pirating, let alone buying (sadly I'm in the latter category).
so.. what you're telling me that the rabbit extras weren't easter eggs? you would have to watch through the whole fucking movie to get them.
you don't have to go through loopholes if you just select the files/(sub)chapters you want from the dvd players menu(not the dvd's menu, which of course hides such easter eggs, but the dvd players menu doesn't mean jack if you bypass it).
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For us minority Mac users, can someone give the hoop-jumping instructions for this Easter Egg...?...
You must install the InterActual DVD Viewer for Internet Explorer before you can view this Easter Egg.
I use Firefox you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, sorry, I misunderstood.
It sounded in your orignal post that you were talking about going through the Chapter menu, not searching through the actual files to find the hidden ones.
This is insightful? Cough, cough, the Easter eggs are viewable on normal dvd players, the Active-X widget to immediately view them, isn't executable on a normal dvd player, cough, cough.
Care to fill us all in on how you'd view this one on a normal DVD player then?
I've buried IE as well, so here's how I start it these days when I have to: Start -> Run -> iexplore
A lot easier than remembering where I put it.
And the easiest way of all is to press windows-key+e and type the url you want into the address bar. Windows explorer automagically turns into IE (blarhhg!).
The best part? You can completely eliminate IE icons from your computer to stop retards for surfing for porn (ie. spyware and viruses) when you're not around!
Easter Eggs were (arguably) cool when they were things that it seemed would be extremely unlikely for anyone to ever find.
For some of those things, I still wonder about the people who found them. For instance, who would, on his own, discover #pragma curious_george in Borland C++?
How about the "16th About Box Credits While Holding Ctrl-Alt-Shift" on the Amiga? Who the hell found that, and why?
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I have had crashes with Safari with HTML documents containing object tags. This could be the same -- there are object tags for a DVDviewer or something.
By communicating circumvention methods for author content controls, isn't everyone in violation of the DMCA?
You had my hopes up.
I thought you were saying that they made a blooper and had accidentally included the real Original Trilogy ( the one without the sky repainted Simpson blue, and without the added computer generated sex scenes,... )
Someone send him a free computer, and last I heard there was a rather large petition to get him included as an extra in Return of the Sith. Worth a little bit of embarassment, I'd say.
Just enter the code 1138...
It's just that easy.
This company is offering nothing other than a way to have extra software installed on your system.
Think of the people right now who just spent their 27k for a DVD server to find out the company will soon be going the way of 3..2...1... boom!
dont hurt me too bad I posted in the wrong window!
...that fixes all the lightsaber effects in the DVD.
And I want it for Linux. Yesterday, if possible.
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http://www.eeggs.com/items/42873.html This alows you to see it on your DVD player.
Easter eggs are great...but they need to work cross-platform. Considering Lucas' prior ties with Apple products, I'm suprised with this omission.
I got the bloopers straight away when I played the DVD and I had to play my old VHS copy to remove them. :7(