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Battlestar Galactica Available for Download
blankgm writes "The SciFi channel has made Episode '33' (Season 1 Episode 1) of Battlestar Galactica available for free, uncut and commercial free, online at SciFi.com. Also available are deleted scenes from the series.
Is this a ploy by the SciFi channel to grow a viewer base as well as loyalty, or an extremely bold move since the series isn't even out on DVD yet? Hopefully it's both. In either case, I believe this is unprecedented, especially since season 1 hasn't even concluded here in the states.
Bravo SciFi. Keep 'em coming!"
Looks awfully like streaming to me...
CowboyNeal? More like CowboyDupe!
Too bad its only 15fps... Otherwise it would be perfect.
This was already covered in the announcement for the 2nd season of BSG...
the show
When I tell an object to delete this, am I killing it or telling it to kill me?
mplayer -dumpstream STREAM_URL
The first regular episode of the new series is titled '33'. Every time the fleet, lead by the Galactica, makes a faster than light jump to get away from the Cylons, the Cylons show up 33 minutes later forcing another FTL jump. The episode deals with the extreme stress that this puts the crew under.
Oh come on guys... Don't you read the older news before you post ? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/24/155722 8&tid=214&tid=1
If you can't find a way, make one!
It's episode 1, titled "33".
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell.
If you're on windows, Real Alternative and MPC Media Player Classic will do the job without having to install evil realplayer.
I know a guy named Sig.
Hate realplayer?
- Install Mplayer and the codec pack, problem solved.
Wanna watch it on your laptop at 1 am on an airplane?
- Install Mplayer and the codec pack, set output to disk instead of video/audio.
Ain't technology grand?
- Mad props to those crazy Hungarians.
Mini-Series Spoiler ALERT!!!!!
Basically all you need to know is that the cylons are religious and believe that its their god given destiny to destroy man for his wicked ways. After the first war they made a treaty to leave eachother alone (the humans didn't realize that it was a religious war and thought the cylons just wanted their freedom.. they still don't understand this). The hot chick the guy keeps dreaming about was one of the new cylons who are perfect human replicas. She worked with him in the defense ministry as a spy and suduced him into giving her access to many secrets. She obtained secret codes that could be used to shut down any defenses. This is how the cylons made their attack and were so successful and they nuked every major city in several different human controlled worlds.
Battlestar Galactica was a large carrier ship from the first war, as was in the process of a decommisioning celebration when the attack happend. It was the only one that survived as it had resisting having any new computer components especially any networks installed on it, as was the protocol in the first war. So the deactivating codes didn't work on it. So it and an enterage of other ships that had come for the celebration are the only surviving military group left and humanities only hope.
That would be pretty difficult, as bittorrent sends data to the downloader in whatever order it feels like, so it would be pretty inapporpriate for streaming.
thisnukes4u.net
yeah I tried:
/ g2demand/scifi/battlestar/33/33.rm'
mplayer -dumpstream 'pnm://rx-wes-sea138.rbn.com/farm/*/usanet/usanet
it dumped the file OK, and viewing the header it appears to be of the right type but I can't even get realplayer to play it, nor mplayer, kaffeine etc.
Anybody know why?
I already got a copy off of the usenet feeds that is 1000X better than the joke of a media format that they call real.
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
mplayer couldn't read it, and the url has an asterisk in it, anyway it wants realplayer.
Well I tried my old copy of Helix Player 0.4.0 and it gave an error (can't handle type x-pn-imagemap), so I updated the rpm to the latest 1.0.2 Gold. That didn't work, it said it was available only in RealPlayer not HelixPlayer. Okay, I buckle under and install the linux RealPlayer rpm 10.0.2 Gold. Same problem! I google and it seems that they have been waiting since October for Real to give them some information which is why they didn't get it into the code, and it has now been postponed?!?!
So nobody involved in the website or production uses linux, and no slashdot people have viewed it on linux? Or is there a secret I don't know about (hope so).
I would really like to view it as an open format file as I neither wish to use pay to use windows in a cafe, nor view it with what I perceive as a lossy protocol over an international connection. This is the broadband age, and bittorrent or a fiber (like I finally got) beats rtsp! Just give me the file! In the end we are done in by a clickable menu? Sheesh!
Can somebody record it to a file and post it?
Registrizzle frizzle.c 7a5b7c16/r ia/entinst.exe9 .13/26624ed225ac 7a5b7c16/ria/entinst.exe
http://software-dl.real.com/26624ed225a
http://get.real.com/RBR3/200.96.9
Thanks btw. Real alternative works pretty well, but I will have to check it out.
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What you missed in the pilot.
Humans build Cylons. They rebel, fight to a standstill, then they leave. Now they're back, and they're bad, and they can look like humans, and they essentially wiped out humanity except for this little fleet. Plus, the brilliant scientist (Gaius Baltar) who is supposed to be figuring out how to defeat them is also the guy who enabled them to wipe out our heroes' defenses, and is sorta seeing one of them. Like, a really hot one. In his head, all the time.
Oh, and Adama had another son named Zack who died and Apollo blamed him for it and and blah blah blah.
I think that about covers it.
The series has already played out in Australia and UK back in 2003... the DVDs will be released on March 1st and 28th. Just go to http://www.amazon.co.uk/ and search for "battlestar" in the DVD section.
If you go to the US Amazon store, it probably won't be released until the SciFI series has ended.
realplay 'http://play.rbn.com/?url=usanet/usanet/g2demand/s cifi/battlestar/33/33.rm&proto=rtsp'
(Note the ' marks.) And it worked fine. I also tried it using Mplayer 1.0.6 with the codec pack, and for some reason that did not work. Maybe my URL is wrong or something, I don't know. I'm sure it is possible to play it with MPlayer and therefore save the stream to a file, but I don't know how to do it.
I remember in the original series they found another surviving Battlestar - the Pegasus, I beleive.
Right, and it was commanded by (IIRC) a guy who wanted to go off and do his own thing without the burden of a bunch of civilian ships. I think it popped in a couple of times, and vanished again in circumstances (exploding fuel tanker?) that left its fate unknown.
Would be cool if the same thing happened on the new series.
I think we can count on it, if the series goes on long enough. It'd almost be a letdown if we didn't see it.