MacHEADS - The Apple fanboy documentary [Lynth]

MacHEADS is a documentary about fanaticism and unconditional devotion to a corporate brand. The film introduces the fascinating characters that make up the Macintosh community. Their stories take us on a journey through Mac history culminating in the Apple revolution and its present day popularity to pose the ultimate question: Is Apple losing faith as a community and becoming just a... brand? MacHEADS features interviews with multiple mac evangelists, including the co-founder of the first Macintosh user group BMUG Raines Cohen, Apple chief evangelist and savior Guy Kawasaki, owners of Digibarn Computer Museum Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt, host of Your Mac Life Shawn King, publisher of the first Apple newsletter Adam Engst, author of Cult of Mac Leander Kaheny, Chicago Sun-Times' technology columnist Andy Ihnatko, Mac engineer and the first official employee of Apple Inc Daniel Kottke, and many others. The interviews, together with legendary Computer Chronicles archive footage and cartoons by Joy of Tech, weave together a captivating story of an extraordinary community. File info: - File name: MacHEADS.mp4 - Container: MPEG-4 Part 14 (.mp4) - File size: 474,818,133 bytes (~452 MB) - Duration: 0:54:48 - MD5 hash: 9830e2026ac00f47b0642fd993ecfb46 - SHA1 hash: 0c22baedbdd66fca47e6c75459cfc614a3e7d773 - CRC-32: 49a1d00a Video: - In-video text language: English - Codec: H.264 - Bitrate: 1024 kbps - Resolution: 864x496 - Frame rate: 30000/1001 fps (~29.970628, NTSC, deinterlaced) Audio: - English (MP3, stereo, 128kbps, 44100 Hz) Subtitles: - None Ripped by Lynth. Enjoy! ----- LGLuX made a re-encoded version of the movie, with less errors, that plays on basically whatever you want: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4725091/MacHEADS_-_THE_APPLE_FANBOY_OCUMENTARY.(Lynth).ReCoded-(LGLuX)

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Lynth (2009-02-02)

You might notice that the quality is only fair. This is not my fault, as the original video had the same quality in the first place. However, my video weighs 450 MB, while the original one weighed 680 MB ;)

Lynth (2009-02-02)

You're welcome :)

breun (2009-02-03)

QuickTime Player won't play the movie and complains about an invalid "sample description". VLC can play it fine though.

Lynth (2009-02-03)

Yes, the encapsulation is probably a little wonky. I encoded it with ffmpeg (using -vcodec libx264) and there were some errors during the process. But whatever, VLC rules :)

Lynth (2009-02-03)

Update: Windows Media Player can read it, given proper codecs, so it's not that bad.

Lynth (2009-02-11)

I see that my torrent is still well seeded. Keep up the good work/netizenship, guys. :)

 LGLuX (2009-02-15)

thanx m8
BUT
it says mp4 tough quicktime gives me invalid , iTunes too , only program i manage to open it is VLC , but VLC is for tossers if i want to stream to ps3 or apple tv , so could you please tell me what type of file its really is ?

Lynth (2009-02-22)

It's just a re-encoded version of the movie, with ffmpeg. It has a tendency not to write some metadata to the file, or not to write the file's container properly, which might explain its un-playability on whatever you're trying to use.
The exact ffmpeg options I used are as follows:
-vcodec libx264 -b 1024k -s 864x496
-acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 128k -ar 44100
-f mp4 -pass 1 or 2 (dual-pass encode)
These are also (in readable english) in the torrent description.

anonymous275 (2009-02-24)

I want to encode it to DVD for a presentation... will it work? LGLuX is making me nervous...

pharaoncheg (2009-03-26)

nice film! do you have subtitle for this movie? i very need it...