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How Episode IV Should Have Ended
OverNeith writes "An excellent cartoon film showing how SW:Episode IV would have ended in a non-Lucas reality. Enjoy!" From the cartoon: "Han: Boy, you said it Chewie. I was this close to going back and helping those people."
'ere ya go http://68.236.124.177:6969/torrents/Star_Wars_Ep_4 .wmv.torrent?E87E9066D9A57CEE759EFD2E765D6DAB96FDA 060
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I believe it will play WMVs on all systems it supports.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent might help. http://www.bitlord.com/ is a good Windows BT client.
I'm not one for star wars humor, but damn that was funny. :) Worth a watch. The animation is real nice, too.
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Here you go, install the appropriate version for your OS.
http://www.bittorrent.com/
This will explain how the whole thing works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent
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What's a bittorrent file?
g .html#HowBTWorks
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfi
After reading that page, which describes how bittorrent works, you might want to go to the following page, where you can download a bittorrent client and learn more about the system.
http://www.bittorrent.com/
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pmarks/slashdot-mirror/ Star_Wars_Ep_4.wmv
*Begin Transcript*
[Text on screen]
How Star Wars episode IV should have ended...
[Inside the rebel base]
Rebel Commander (briefing troops): Men normally with this information we would take time to make a more intricit plan of attack. However, rather than transmitting the technical readouts of the imperial battlestation and keeping our hidden loctaion safe...Princess Leia insisted on coming back, knowing full well that her ship was being tracked. In short, we have one chance to make this right and it's all Prince Leia's fault.
[On the death star]
Death star Piolet: Sir we have reached the planet Yavin. The rebel base is on a moon orbitting on the other side of the planet. We will be in firing range in 30 minutes.
Death star commander: I say we're in range now. Fire.
-Beeping noises-
-Animation of the death star blowing up the planet-
[Rebel base]
Rebel commander: Well so much for that idea.
[Millenium Falcon]
Chewie: Raaaar.
Han: Boy, you said it Chewie. I was this close to going back and helping those people.
[Text on screen]
The end.
[Diagobah (sp?)]
Yoda: Let him beat you you had to. What will I do now? Go crazy I will.
Obi wan (as a ghost): Oh get over yourself.
*End Transcrip*
My thoughts on the subject:
Look if you remember the first time you saw star wars...you didn't hate it. Maybe you have what it's become but what percentage of movies that were made in the 70's would even pass the giggle test if someone tried to release them today? The plot and special effects were something that had never been done before. Sure after 30 years the plot didn't turn out to be bulletproof. All a movie has to do to be a good movie is hold your attention and entertain for the duration it's on the screen. You know what? All the star wars movies (except episode 1) did that for me.
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I'm on Linux and Mplayer and Xine can play the WMV files perfectly fine. Just need to have the correct codec installed. I'm using Fedora and I even installed all the codec's through yum. If you're using an RPM based distribution Atrpms should have all the packages you need. Plenty of instructions can be found by googling on how to install the codecs you need...
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here is a magnet URI for those people using the Azureus bittorrent client:
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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5B7JAZWZUV6O45M67UXHMXLNVOL
With the magnet URI you don't need the torrent file. Simply copy it to the clipboard and in Azureus, go to File->Open->Location (ctrl-L) and paste the magnet URI.
Didn't see Episode 3, did you?
The answer is at the end of the film where Yoda talks to Obiwan before they part ways.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
MPlayer nor VLC on Mac OS can benefit from the hack which is used in Linux, i.e. sending everything through the windows DLL. Therefore it can only play old WMV files for which the codec has been reverse engineered. When the switch to x86 is there, this problem will probably go away, though. ...
For now the only programs I know that can play most WMV junk in OS X, are the crappy WMP from MS itself, and Flip4Mac. The latter is pretty good since it allows to play WMV in QuickTime, enabling most of the features that I expect from a decent media player like easy seeking, frame per frame,
Aww, hell, the prequels don't even jibe with the original trilogy.Don't even get me started...
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