Pink Floyd at Live 8 - NTSC 16:9 DVD from Nokia Dbox XviD source

Pink Floyd @ Live 8
Hyde Park, London
2005-07-02
NTSC DVD - 16:9 widescreen

Sources:
VIDEO: uncut widescreen Nokia Dbox source as XviD. (410MB AVI torrent download - http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3351625) converted to MPEG2
AUDIO1: 224Kbps MP3 audio from XviD video source, converted to WAV, normalized, then transcoded as 320Kbps Dolby Digital audio
AUDIO2: "oink" FLAC download from XM radio source (XM radio > wmod UA-5 > NJ3 > Wavelab 5 > CDWave > flac (level 8)), upsampled to 48KHz then transcoded as 320Kbps Dolby Digital audio
AUDIO3: BBC2 radio source downloaded from thetradersden.org (XM radio > wmod UA-5 > NJ3 > Wavelab 5 > CDWave > flac (level 8)), upsampled to 48KHz then transcoded as 320Kbps.

Chapter 1. Breathe
Chapter 2. Money
Chapter 3. Wish You Were Here
Chapter 4. Comfortably Numb

DVD notes.

First off, this is *not* one for the digital purists. Both audio and video sources are lossy sourced, and very likely a higher quality version will surface soon. (And the inevitable commercial DVD will be top quality, and should be purchased by everyone reading or writing this text file.) This is simply my attempt to take the best audio/video sources I could find on the Internets the weekend of the show, and make an NTSC DVD that would play on my TV. The resulting DVD turned out quite nice, so I share it here so that others may benefit from my afternoon of format conversion and audio tweaking.

That said, the results are quite good. This looks and sounds quite a bit better than the "highest quality" recording I Tivo'ed off cable, and unlike the US broadcasts, it's complete. Yeah, I'd much rather have something encoded from a high bitrade satellite feed rather than XviD. But that hasn't surfaced yet, and I'm sure there are others out there who, in the meantime, would like to enjoy this on DVD.

CONVERSIONS INFO:
VIDEO: XviD video (576x320, 25fps, 2184Kbps) converted to MPEG2 (CBR 8500Kbps 720x480 29.97fps) using TMPGEnc 2.524.
AUDIO1: Original XviD video (48KHz 224Kbps MP3 audio) converted to 48KHz stereo WAV and normalized using Adobe Audition 1.5.
AUDIO2: FLACs extracted to 44.1KHz stereo and joined using SHNTool. Normalized using Adobe Audition. Missing intro section added and cross-faded from AUDIO1 source.
AUDIO3: FLACs extracted to 44.1KHz stereo and joined using SHNTool. Normalized using Adobe Audition. Missing intro section added and cross-faded from AUDIO1 source.

All audio tracks transcoded to 320Kbps Dolby Digital and DVD authored using Adobe Encore DVD 1.5. No menus or additional goodies. Chapter marks at the beginning of each song.

There you have it. If it's your thing, please enjoy this DVD. DO NOT SELL IT, EVER. When the commercial product becomes available, buy it. And while you're at it, END GLOBAL POVERTY.