High quality video of the game available.

The Florida game happens to be encoded in H.264 which is a relatively new and complex encoding scheme. I know that Nero (using the Nero Vision tool) can make a DVD from this format. I imagine Roxio and Alcohol 120% also have this ability. I'm not sure if the "basic" versions of these CD/DVD suites include this capability but I do know for a fact that Nero Ultra does. It's pretty simple in Nero Vision but it does take awhile as the video must be converted to MPEG-2 (which takes awhile) and then burned.

Some new DVD players will recognize DivX and XviD video files in .avi containers that burned as simply data DVDs but as far as I know there are no DVD players that do H.264 yet, so it has to be converted and burned as a DVD video (what I'm trying to say is, you can't take the Florida .mp4 file and just burn it onto a DVD and have it work like that). The game videos that are encoded using Xvid will work by simply burning the file to a DVD on any standalone DVD player connected to a TV that is capable of playing that format (your DVD player will usually have a DivX or MPEG-4 logo on it or something, otherwise those will also have to be converted and burned as DVD video).

The short of it all is that yes, all those games can be put on DVD and displayed on TVs and look quite good. When you convert to DVD the best you'll get is the NTSC standard resolution so although the florida game is a nice high res video on your computer it will be reduced to normal DVD quality when it is played on a standalone DVD player and displayed on your TV (whether it is an HDTV or not). If you have a HD DVD or Blu Ray player and a burner I suppose you can have higher quality stuff but I have no idea as that is too new and expensive for me. Hope this didn't just confuse anyone more. I'm going to try and write a real thorough and clear guide about all this for that site so that anyone that has no idea what they are dealing with can figure it out.

 

Actually, that was very informative. I'm no tech wiz and this is my first torrent download. I'll use the utorrent module that is listed on their site. Each half is taking about 1-2 hours to download. Is that normal (download rate of 250 -280KB/sec)? I understand the need for file conversion to burn to DVD. I'll just play it on my computer screen.

 

Just watched the first half. Incredible video on my hard drive. Thanks for the link.

 

it's really good for a file that size. i've downloaded files half the size of these that took days to download (because there were so few seeds).

 

I just have all of them saved on my DVR.


Much easier :grin:

 

What happens when your DVR runs out of space?

 

Allright, so how do i play the file now that I have downloaded it with Utorrent? Does not seem to work with VLC player.

 

VLC works great for me.

 

hmppphhh

ffmpeg error: av_find_stream_info failed
ps error: cannot peek
main error: no suitable demux module for `/://C:\Users\Owner\Downloads\LSU Games\LSU vs UF\2007-10-06 NCAAF - Florida at LSU - 1st Half.torrent'

 

if you just can't get it to play, download anyvideoconverter software (the free version) and convert it to an avi or whatever format. Then you can play it in win media player or just about any other player. i do this cause my dvd writing software won't work with the mp4 file. i'm not sure how converting it will affect the quality, but the games look fine on my tv when i play it from a dvd i made. This HD version will probably lose the HD quality, but that happens when you put it on dvd anyway unless you have a HD dvd burner. doesn't matter to me since i don't have HDTV anyway. please correct me if i'm wrong.