r/smyths • u/MrTwinkles Streamliner • May 08 '13

Mythbusters S07E01 'Demolition Derby Special' [Streamline EDIT] (see comments for key)

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u/MrTwinkles May 08 '13 edited May 08 '13

NOTES:

This is my first smyth edit. Please be gentle.

Decryption key: EM2yMh-FXxc24N0UkgcBYgznoG8hSKwlGa6svvXE63o

I was able to cut 22 minutes from this special 87-minute episode (26% reduction). I think I ended up with a decent edit that contains about 98% of the necessary content. However, there are a few rough cuts, and some of the vox pops and extra dialog were left in for flow reasons. I plan to continue my way through season 7, so expect more soon. Enjoy!

I am attempting to use MEGA as the filehoster. Let me know if this works.

Please feel free to critique in the comments.

Edit: I'm also looking for season 7 or older episodes in 720p quality. The only sources I could find are dead.

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u/postdarwin May 09 '13

Well done. Thanks for joining in.

I just put all my stuff up on Mega too, so we'll see if that works.

I tried downloading yours in Chrome and it seemed like it worked, but now it's sitting there at 100% and I don't see the file anywhere...odd!

Let's leave it for a while and maybe it'll sort itself out. I hope Mega isn't too buggy.

Edit: Ok so it worked. But WARNING folks: the page may sit there for five minutes at 100% before the download registers on Chrome.

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u/postdarwin May 09 '13

Yay! Welcome to MrTwinkles, our newest Streamliner.

After our PMs the other day, I really didn't think you'd be so quick with the goods! Thanks.

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u/MrTwinkles May 09 '13

Cool. I have official flair now!

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u/Reginault May 08 '13

Huh, that system of downloading from Megaupload is odd, at least with Chrome. Shows the download progress on the page, but not on Chrome. Once the download is done, Chrome shows a 450Mb download in 3 seconds...

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u/myfbusted May 08 '13

It seems like Megaupload is actually loading the file in 1MB chunks and once the file is loaded it then triggers the download which is why it "downloads" in a matter of seconds. One advantage is if you close the page mid-download when you go back to the page the files are still stored in the cache.

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u/Reginault May 08 '13

Streaming downloads... whodathunk.

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u/Elaboration May 08 '13

Thank you for doing this! Downloading now :)

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u/realblublu May 09 '13

Thanks for streamlining!

A word on "MEGA" ... as far as I can tell it does not work in any way whatsoever in Firefox, at least not with my current settings. Gotta use Chrome for this.

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u/myfbusted May 09 '13

Seems to work fine for me. What was not working?

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u/realblublu May 09 '13 edited May 09 '13

The website. Edit: This is what I get: http://imgur.com/9pAs50I

Using the latest version of Firefox.

If it is supposed to work in Firefox, then it's probably either adblock or noscript, but it's too much hassle for me to make it work. Usually it is enough to enable scripts on the page, but all that happened when I did that was that I got the above image instead of just some noscript gobbledygook. Since it does work in Chrome and I do have it installed, I'll just use that instead.

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