Star wars episode 2 Movie sound on CD!!

[shinomen]

I've happen to come upon some cd's that have the Star Wars episode 2 movie sound on them. I think they're meant to be played on a movie theatres DTS or THX system. They have a different file extention that I haven't seen before (.aud). I'm guessing they stand for audio. Does anyone know how to rip this kind of thing. Any help would be great, thanks!

[Tbear]

No, the sound for the film is on the film. It is optical on the edge of the film next to the frame of the picture. you might have a copy of the soundtrack. You can check for file extentions at the following web site.
>aud was for some pc games.


www.wotsit.org

[shinomen]

No, it's not the soundtrack. I'm guessing that some of the newer theatres with DTS and THX sound actually have a special type of cd player which reads these discs, syncs up with the movie, and plays the sound in true DTS, or THX.

I was researching it last night and found alot on .aud for video game sound. Unfortunately the program they had for listening for these files wouldn't recognize them. The files probably have some sort of encryption on them, who knows.

If anyone else has any ideas let me know. Thanks

[Tbear]

no there would be to many problems with sync that way. you can't have the film and sound on two seperate machines. If they use film sound will be on film. if it's total digital(very few theatres) the video and audio would be multiplexed together. if the film broke and lost a couple of feet of film, there would no way to keep sound in sync.

[Freshman]

Sorry TBear, but you're wrong.

If a cinema is equipped with DTS technology, the soundtrack to a film comes on separate CDs. Here in Germany, where films are usually dubbed into German, some cinemas use this fact to show the film in the original, i.e. they play back the "German" film reel (with German titles, e.g. the subtitles translating the elvish language at the beginning of Lord of the Rings) together with the English language CDs.

Film and audio are synced using some kind of timecode that's on the film reel, presumably instead of the soundtrack. If frames get lost when the film breaks and needs to be fixed, this allows the audio to stay in sync.

For some information take a look at
http://www.dtsonline.com/cinema/index.html ,
particularly at the product specs of the dts devices with several cd-drives built in.

However, I don't have any clue whether the CD with the "aud" tracks on it is one of these dts CDs, but it could well be possible.

Freshman

[Tbear]

Ok, I stand corrected. It' been a few years since I was a projectionist. And DTS was not around. I do know they have been talking about digital theatres since the early 80's Sending the film via satitilites and using video projectors. And they still have not done it. A few theatres have gone video projectors.

[Freshman]

No big deal, and of course you're right that there are still a large number of theaters without dts. As far as digital projectors are concerned, I expect that there are going to be many more of those in the next couple of years. I've heard that George Lucas wants to make digital projection a requirement for cinemas that want to show Episode III, but I doubt that he will really be able to push this through, considering few dlp projectors there are now.

btw, out of curiosity I did a little research in Google (groups) by entering the search terms "dts-cd" and "aud", and it appears that Shinomen's CDs are in fact dts CDs, but it doesn't seem to be possible to play them back without a theatrical dts-system (not to be confused with the home user variation of dts).

Freshman

[shinomen]

On the first CD that I have there's a program called DTS.exe that appears to be the thing that syncs the video with sound. (as far as the cd is concerned anyway.)

Regardless, I still haven't been able to find anything that talks about this particular format. (.aud) I'm guessing the only way to rip it to another format is to put it in the machine it's intended for and hopefully it has some fiber opt or at least RCA jack that could be run into the computer. Either way, if anyone does happen to stumble accross any thing about this let me know.

thanks again

[shinomen]

One more thing I forgot to mention is when I put the cd into my dvd player it recognizes it as mp3 but won't play it. Just in case someone wanted to know.

[agzz]

you dont have a ftp to up a disc image to?
i would like to play with that.

[Tbear]

No problem, I learned something new today which makes it a good day. I was reading a news article today about digital projectors. Lucas was hoping to have more then there is out there. I would believe he will try to get cinema owners to switch. Since it was filmed with digital camera. But the owners want help from the studios to help pay for the switch.