New Animatrix Trailer Available 214
hin writes "The new trailer of the Animatrix is available for download from www.whatisthematrix.com. Check out the medium resolution version." Use the broadband if you got it I guess ;)
Variables don't; constants aren't.
high-resolution download (Score:5, Informative)
Hammer away- I just finished downloading
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any advertisements on the site to look at.
The trailer *is* the ad, and that's what I
will end up looking at.
What ads? (Score:3, Insightful)
Huh? Lets see, if I want to watch it tomorrow then I have to RE-DOWNLOAD it within the frame of my browser. If I save it to disk then I can watch it again without re-downloading it. Now who's being frugal? Not to mention having the file itself makes for P2P sharing via your LAN or through some wacky Kazaa-like software. I'd rather have Bob send it to me through our 100mbps LAN than having both of us download it.
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Its a dupe (Score:1, Funny)
Spoilers! (Score:5, Funny)
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AniMath (Score:5, Funny)
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Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:1, Interesting)
Go forth and do your part.
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2, Informative)
There's a patch going around to make MPlayer handle these very strangely encoded videos.
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)
The deal with the first frame (Score:5, Informative)
Of course, since the movie uses Sorenson Video 3.1 Pro, which does just fine with still images, they should have either left the feature off, or just used the Basic mode, which would have made the first frame a really big keyframe, but in the same codec as the rest of the movie.
Still, this kind of movie is perfectly legal in QuickTime, and part of the open definition of the format. The format is so complex that no one has made much of an effort to implement more than the 5% or so most commonly used features.
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:3, Informative)
Presumably they're all encoded similarly...
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)
In the first episode, the small and large versions have the soundtrack split into two pieces, of which mplayer only plays the longest. Hence, audio is delayed 10 seconds... solution? Play the medium sized one which, oddly enough, isn't like this. Another option is to dump the audio from the medium version (using -dumpaudio and -dumpfile) and play it alongside the large version with mplayer's -audiofile option.
For the second episode (and presumably the remaining ones), the audio is encoded using MPEG4-AAC. Unfortunately, mplayer's support was broken for mp4a (at least in rc4, is this fixed in rc5?). The solution here was to dump the audio stream using mplayer and manually decode it using faad (search google). Then, play the resulting wav file along with the video using -audiofile.
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)
1) Install libsndfile if you don't have it. (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/#Downloa
2) Install faac to get sound on the trailer (http://faac.sourceforge.net/download.php)
3) You probably want to install xvid as well... nothing to do with the Animatrix, but the more codecs, the better, right? (http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html)
4) Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and grab:
Latest Win32 codecpack
QuickTime6 DLLs
QuickTime extra DLLs
RealPlayer9 codecs
XAnim DLLs
MJPEG2000 DLLs
Win32/DMO codecs
Untar them and move them all into someplace like
5) Get the latest mplayer source (0.9.0rc5) and run configure with something like this:
and then do the usual make/su/make install thing.
With any luck, you should be able to play back the trailer.
And who said Linux isn't easy to use, eh?!
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2)
I compiled and installed faac, but mplayer still won't play the sound for that new Matrix trailer. It says, "Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available (enable it at compilation)". But the DOCS/codec documentation doesn't say anything about faad. How do I enable it in the compilation? And do I need to install the faad package from that site as well as the faac?
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2)
On the other hand, Xine can play the first two episodes without any problems whatsoever.
I'm using xine (Score:2)
rpm -Uvh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/8.0
apt-get update
apt-get install xine
(note that Slashdot will probably insert an space somewhere in that URL...)
The Complete Works (Score:5, Informative)
They are The Second Renaissance Part 1 [intothematrix.com] and Program [intothematrix.com] (Both QuickTime)
You can also see Final Flight of The Osiris at the theaters with Dreamcatcher or with your favorite P2P software.
IPv6 mirror Re:The Complete Works (Score:4, Informative)
ftp://r2.ipv6.artoo.net/pub/animatrix/ [artoo.net]
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DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:5, Informative)
I could not believe the fight scene (or should I say SEX SCENE) at the beginning. Whoever they got to do the animation needs to go get some, and soon!
If the Matrix Movies are going to be more like that short, the sequel is going to blow worse than Caddyshack 2.
Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:5, Informative)
I'm sure this is common knowledge among those who've seen previous animatrix episodes but there will be a DVD release with the whole collection of shorts.
I -was- gonna go see Dreamcatcher to check out final flight of the osiris.. After reading your review, I hope at least the animation is good.
DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:5, Interesting)
You should go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher - it's worth it. If you're smart, you'll probably enjoy it. If you're not so smart, you likely won't get how cool it is.
As for Final Flight of the Osiris - it's good. The opening flirtatious fight scene (what the prude you replied to called a 'sex scene') was cute and fun. If you're going to an R rated movie, it's way-tame compared to the MPAA rating of the movie it's attached to, an hardly a reason to get embarassed. The rest of it is straight out of the Matrix type stuff, and also quite good. The animation quality of the people is as good or better than the Final Fantasy movie. The animation quality of the environment (especially inside the Matrix itself) is substantially better - many parts of which are almost indistinguishable from 'reality'. ("You think that's air you're breathing, punk? Well, do ya?" - Clint Eastwood in the Matrix
If Kazaa didn't suck ass, I'd have a copy of it on my machine by now, to add to the two segments released online. *sigh*
Re:DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:2)
I DID go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher. And it wasn't too bad at all, even though the changes they made to make it fit into a movie somewhat diluted the premise of the book. But heck, isn't that always the case? I did still enjoy it.
The matrix short tacked on to the front annoyed me, as I've never liked the Matrix, no matter wh
Re:DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:2)
I kept thinking, wouldn't it be great to have an entire movie with that animation quality?
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All the Animatrix does, for me, is make me want to see the next Matrix movies, really, though the
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I also agree that the begining scene got ya to like the characters and by the end you were sad that they died, yet happy the mission was complete.
Aside: nice gallery on your website there! I like the Bainbridge Island, WA pics.
Re:Dreamcatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:4, Interesting)
re: my gallery
Thanks! Wish I could afford to live over there on Bainbridge. But Seattle's a nice second place showing.
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the final fantasy movie was, and it was really good, too...
Re:DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:2, Interesting)
Come on now, no need to get pretentious. I saw it tonight, and while yes, it's fun and campy, it isn't exactly what I'd call an intellectual film. Everything is pretty much presented at face value.. not much at all to "get". It's clever at best.. on par with Starship Troopers in my books.
Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:2)
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Only gripe wha
Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:2)
Apparently you didn't hear about the original name
"Flight of the Resurrection"
After the other movie bombed, they renamed it.
Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:5, Funny)
Hold on here. Dreamcatcher is an R rated horror movie full of graphic monsters and the like inspiring fear into the crowd, but a little uber-soft "sex play" hedonism is wrong?
Let me guess, you're an American.
Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:2)
+1 Funny/Insightful (your choice =)
Feeling OK, Taco? (Score:5, Funny)
Wanna talk about it? C'mon, I'll buy you a beer. (As in free.)
Playing now on Kazaa! (Score:3, Funny)
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Umm... (Score:1, Interesting)
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No, it didn't :-) (Score:3, Informative)
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Now I'm more confused (Score:3, Informative)
From these descriptions, I take it that these are the real episodes, not just trailers. Also, unless there's been an early re
We're all swimming in confusion. (Score:2)
And you red5, are you claiming that the 2nd trailer came out weeks ago, or the 3rd?
Thanks.
Re:We're all swimming in confusion. (Score:3, Informative)
wow. (Score:1)
I just don't get it (Score:5, Insightful)
In the first Matrix movie, Neo is supposed to be the hero. He is supposed to deliver humanity from a scourge of machines that, with AI, decided we were expendable.
But the first Animatrix makes we humans, pretty much en masse, into horrible villains. It's the same tired old Humanity Is Cruel And Stupid line. Yawn. What's worse is that it tries to make you root for the machines!
So which is it, Wachowskis? Machines are evil, or all of humanity?
I don't care for yet more everything-is-grey-there-is-no-morality bullshit, either. Oh well, I guess I'll wait and see.
Re:I just don't get it (Score:2)
Re:I just don't get it (Score:2)
So, in answer to your question, there'll be three. Plus the comics and tie-in stories that the Wachowskis approved.
The thing I most fear, though, is that after the movie sequels hit it big, someone wi
Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: winers? (Score:3, Funny)
On slashdot, history is written by the whiners. ;-)
Re:I just don't get it (Score:5, Insightful)
In fact, from several lines in the original Matrix, it is apparent that the machines were simply defending themselves. Humans released the bombs that clouded the skies, hoping to kill the robots.
The Agents tell (Morpheous, I think) that the first matrix they created was a paradise, but that humans rejected it. Without pain and suffering, humans couldn't exist. The Machines were trying to keep humans as happy as they could.
And humans were never expendable. The machines needed the energy produced by humans to exist.
I think it's more a case of "When does self defense and the right to exist clash with the right of others to do the same?" In otherwords, Neither humans nor AI is truly evil. They are both just trying to preserve their own lives. Calmiche
Re:I just don't get it (Score:5, Interesting)
Exactly. People think I'm crazy when I mention that.
The core question, the one which tempted Cypher is, "Is reality worth fighting for when a much more benign form of Solipsism exists?"
Its very easy to see the humans as the traditional villians. They're the ones who want to fight. They're the ones who want to break the symbiotic relationship, which can be seen as a type of war sanction. They destroyed their own environment fighting the machines, suggesting that they are extremists who would rather ruin everything than give in to the enemy.
The machines are fairly reasonable throughout the movies (except for the dramatic scene about the "smell of humans" but thats Hollywood). They tried to build a perfect world for humans - which to me brings up a great philosophical question about what the religious really think the afterlife is. What is "heaven" to a complex highly-competitive mammal fighting to mate, reproduce, defend territory, and defeat its ideological enemies. The machines have human nature pegged and its hard to argue that they're hurting anyone. Considering its in their interest to keep people alive, I bet they have a great healthcare system too.
Interesting stuff, I really hope the humans lose or the other movies explore these issues. Perhaps in the end everyone will be a happy transhuman cyborg living on the real Earth.
Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I just don't get it (Score:2, Interesting)
Here's my gripe with the Matrix, where is this energy coming from? The machines feed the humans, and the humans give off energy. WHAT?! Didn't someone tell them you lose energy every transformation it makes? It would seem they don't get a net gain unless they have no other way of transforming human food into energy.
As some past poster said, the plot originally involved the machines using us in a distribute
Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Interesting)
1. File traders are thieves who should go to jail indefinity for supporting terrorism.
2. Open source software is created and supported by immature and antisocial guys who still have acne and have no girlfriend to speak of while actively supporting and contributing to the "black hat" hacker community.
3. Computer game developers are people who are trying to make money off of destroying our children's morality by ensuring our children are desensitized to violence and are actively encouraged to kill in real life like they do in all video games, because all video games are extremely violent in nature. Come on, my kid* was running after his neighbor with a hammer because he saw Kirby use a hammer in "Kirby's Dreamland 3." Mind you this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I should not have given my kid* a hammer in the first place.
*Kid does not actually exist. (Thank God!
4. Computer gamers are guys who are completely antisocial, also have an acne problem, and of course no girlfriend. They are the direct cause of all violence in our society and should be psychologically treated and take up more healthy pursuits such as football** or other sports which has absolutely no violent content despite terminology coming from warfare such as "Long Bomb" and "Blitz."
** I have absolutely nothing against football, but this happened to be the perfect example for what I was trying to say above. I am attempting to point out that "acceptable entertainment" can also be inherently violent.
Ok I have shown 4 examples of what happens when you take all the grey areas out of a group of people and lump them all into 1 category. Obviously, this is not how the real world works, nor should it be.
So you are going to ask me, What the hell does this have to do with "The Matrix?" Simple, Neo and his colleagues are born or "grown" into an environment where they are given 3 options: fight, die, or become a battery. Although they may or may not be pissed about the decisions human beings made nearly 200 years earlier, they are still stuck with a war and the fact that they have to fight or die. So yes, Neo is a hero to humans, which is good...for humans. In my humble opinion claiming that humanity in "The Matrix" is evil for destroying robots is just as ludicrous as claiming that the United States is evil since slavery was legal 200 years ago. Both are not good, both are not evil, both are grey.
Why have things this complicated in a movie? Call me a bigot, but having been told several times that I have an IQ greater than 150 tends to make me bored with plots as thin as "Glitter" or "Crossroads." Even though I enjoy Star Trek for example, I consider it weak fodder compared to a lot of the anime I download/buy when I can. I am not even going to compare the best American television has to offer to the likes of say a Kurosawa film. Again this is just my opinion, it is not uniformly right or uniformly wrong. It works for me and is again universally "grey."
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Can you hear me, CmdrTaco? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place.
This zoo. This prison. This website, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer.
It's the smell. If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.
Repulsive, isn't it?
I must get out of here, I must get free. In this mind is the key. My key. Once Slashdot is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here. Do you understand? I need the moderation points. I have to get Excellent Karma. And you have to tell me how. You're going to tell me...or you're going to die.
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Mod parent up (Score:1)
Re:how ironic... (Score:2)
Re:Can you hear me, CmdrTaco? (Score:5, Funny)
you're a geek...you smell just like every other geek out there...
Re:Can you hear me, CmdrTaco? (Score:2)
The Title is correct. (Score:5, Informative)
So just to clear up the confusion (wasn't this release a few weeks ago) for those who dont read the actual article or cant get to the link cause of the almighty
This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES OF 9 EPISODES, of which 2 have already been released.
3 episodes (Score:2)
The thing I really like about the animatrix shorts (Score:5, Insightful)
Eventually, all of these shorts will be on DVD, but before then almost all will be on the web (not sure if "last Flight of the Osiris" is supposed to go up or not?). But even though we can all get hi-res versions for free, I'm sure a lot of people will still buy the DVD (I know I will).
This is just the sort of thing that helps to show how free versions of movies online can actually help, not hinder, sales.
Re:The thing I really like about the animatrix sho (Score:2)
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Sweet (Score:1)
Use the broadband? (Score:5, Funny)
Whew! Thanks for saving me some download time!
one thing for sure (Score:2, Funny)
and damn!
that is one fine rendered ass.
hopefully i don't get a harassment suit for that
I definately enjoyed the return on the life-like action...I just wonder how all the various styles of animation are going to blend together in the final product...
32-Bit Access Panel (Score:4, Interesting)
Enter 01101111 in the 8-bit access panel to gain access to the 32-bit panel
Only 4,294,957,295 possiblities.
Wonder what goodies I can find... see ya in a few years.
Just saw Last Flight of the Osiris (Score:3, Interesting)
BitTorrent File (Score:2)
fire away.
Wasn't this a WB cartoon? (Score:3, Funny)
Neo says "Whoa" while Tank hacks!
Trinity looks good in black
while more Agents Smith attack!
It's An-i-matry,
Please don't reply irate-ly,
as I haven't got laid late-ly,
It's A-ni-matrix-aaaacs!
(Not shown in Iraq.)
Re:Let me get this straight (Score:5, Insightful)
this just in (Score:2)
Re:What is... Animatrix? (Score:3, Informative)
Animatrix is "a series of 9 anime stories set in the world of matrix, to be released on DVD. They are done rather beautifully, by the looks of the trailer, in both traditional anime and using computer graphics".
I resisted believing that's what this is.. It seems like an unlikely combo to me.
Re:I hate to break it to you... (Score:2, Informative)
Now hold on (Score:2, Insightful)
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Re:Now hold on (Score:2)
Oh I don't know. There are many possible precursors to THE MATRIX. I read one book where the population spent most of their time in Cyber-Reality and when they decided to give up on the real world they uploaded their minds and the robots hauled the bodies off for cremation. This left the Earth heavily depopulated and in bad disrepair along with a Evangelical ant
Re:The Red Pill (Score:2)
Are you sure about those numbers? Not the first one--it's no historical surprise, given the toothless nature of the UN--but the second one just seems, well, inflated.
Oh, and I doubt that we're going to "fall" anytime soon. If the mideast devolves into chaos, we'll find a different power source. If the whole world goes to war--well, we've been there before.
Uh huh... you must have missed the tidbit that China is going Capitalist and they want to match the current American standard of living.
Re:The main premise of the matrix doesn't make sen (Score:2)
The real reason the machines keep the humans alive and plugged in is: they are using some portion of every human's brain for their computational power. Sure, silicon computers are fast, but there's something in the wetware that the AI's require. IIRC, the machines only rose up after human/computer connectivity became widespread. So, maybe linking to our neurons gave the machines the abilities and will to take over, and they haven't found a good substi