On 5/22/05, Jim Tinsley <jtinsley@pobox.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:25:24PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote:
That mpeg is an elemental stream, video only. If there is a higher quality original source somewhere, I'd be happy to reencode into different formats... video codecs have come a long way in the last 10 years. There was a DVD released a few years back by NASA, but it was a Fox release.. undoubtably tied up in copyright somewhere. Commentary, new presentation, and at the least a collection copyright. 3 discs, 10 hours of video, or some such.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=first+landing+on+the+moon+video+site%3 Anasa.gov> seems to supply links to NASA videos of the first moon landing. Otherwise perhaps people at NASA might help.
Assuming of course that the original poster cannot be traced.
Why, when we have a perfectly good AVI, do we have to trace anybody? Google gives me, like, 400 converter programs immediately. I just thought there would be someone here who could _do_ it with more expertise than I.
Because it is not a perfectly good avi.. it is low resolution, and very noisy. I can convert it to another codec.. I can even run a temporal filter on it and reduce the noise a little. Or I can grab the audio track off the avi, reencode it, and mux it with the mpeg.. which is also noisy, but in a different fashion (block artifacts, ringing around edges, etc.) But all of that is not as good as getting a more accurate capture of the original. To me, converting those video files is like automated conversion of text to html.. useful to some, but referring back to the original text delivers a much better final product. For 1994, that is very good digital video footage. For 2005.. well, most camera phones do better. BTW, the mac file is fine, if mislabelled.. it is binhexed. Once you extract the data fork of 0005.QT, it plays just fine. Actually, I'd say it the best of the three, by a fair margin. R C