New Animatrix Trailer Available

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 ;)

high-resolution download

[MiTEG]

Link to Hi-res [aol.com] (104487 KB)

Hammer away- I just finished downloading :)

The Complete Works

[Ken@WearableTech]

You can find two complete works at www.intothematrix.com [intothematrix.com]
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.

DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini

[mgpeter]

I went to DreamCatcher tonight with my wife and my daughter (a Stephen King Fan), and after all the previews they showed a 10 minute (or so) Animatrix Mini called "Final flight of the Osirus" and I have got to say I was Totally Embarrassed.

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:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux?

[peter_gzowski]

I assume you mean besides the Crossover Quicktime plugin [codeweavers.com]?

Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini

[tezzery]

The 'Final Flight of The Osiris' animatrix episode was done by Square USA, it was directed by Andy Jones who has done work on Final Fantasy, Titanic and 1998's Godzilla.

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.

Re:high-resolution download

[Anonymous Coward]

It'll be on Gnutella in about 30 seconds. I'd encourage anybody else who's gotten it already to do the same.

IPv6 mirror Re:The Complete Works

[jroysdon]

For those with IPv6 access, I've mirrored all of the released Animatrix clips so far (2 mentioned above, plus the trailer mentioned in the article).

ftp://r2.ipv6.artoo.net/pub/animatrix/ [artoo.net]

Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

I have the first two working in Totem (XINE-based) after installing the Quicktime Sorenson codecs.

There's a patch going around to make MPlayer handle these very strangely encoded videos.

No, it didn't :-)

[Captain Beefheart]

This video is a trailer for the complete set of animated films to be released on DVD in June.

Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux?

[Spy Hunter]

Works fine for me. The actual animatrix movies have some funky still image at the beginning that confuses mplayer, but xine seems to work better (and I hear there's a patch for mplayer). This trailer doesn't have that, and it works perfectly.

Now I'm more confused

[apothoray]

According to the website [intothematrix.com] , there are 9 episodes to be released on the dvd on june 3rd. The site lists "The Second Renaissance Part 1" as "First of four episodes completely free". It also lists "Program" as "Second of four episodes completely free". The other two episodes, "Detective Story" and "The Second Renaissance Part 2" are slated to come out in april and may, respectively.

From these descriptions, I take it that these are the real episodes, not just trailers. Also, unless there's been an early release of the third episode, this announcement is repeat of an announcement from 2 weeks ago.

Of course, I could be missing something.

sig2dat

[imag0]

File:Animatrix_4_big.mov
Length:106994959Bytes,10 4487KB
UUHash:=c0mrUwThUScEJkMYwikUISDClQg=

Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux?

[Genyin]

The first animatrix works fine in the latest release (rc5) of mplayer with the quicktime codecs. It didn't work in rc3 when I tried, so the patch was applied sometime in between there. (but the fix mentioned elsewhere was applied at some point, I checked the sources)

Presumably they're all encoded similarly...

The Title is correct.

[mesach]

This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES, its not a new EPISODE, i did catch the first few seconds, and it does have alot of new stuff.

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 /. effect.

This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES OF 9 EPISODES, of which 2 have already been released.

Re:What is... Animatrix?

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a bit of background for those of you:

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.

The deal with the first frame

[benwaggoner]

Specifically, the movies seem to have been encoded with Discreet's Cleaner, using the "High Quality First Frame" option set to JPEG instead of Basic. This feature dates from the Cinepak CD-ROM era, where the Cinepak codec had low maximum quality for still images. This feature would make the first frame a JPEG, giving better quality for the one frame that tends to get stared at the most, especially with web-based progressive download.

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?

[Abcd1234]

Yup... the only trick is that some of the movies have their audio encoded/split funny.

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:I hate to break it to you...

[canajin56]

This is the annoucement of the third short.

Sorry AC, but if you had RTFA, you would have realized that this is, as the subject would indicate, is the TRAILER for the DVD containing ALL of them. The third free one doesn't go up until April :D

Re:The thing I really like about the animatrix sho

[Bishop923]

IIRC only 4 of the 9 episodes will be downloadable. We already have two and the other two will come out in April and May, then in June they will release the DVD with all 9 episodes.

Re:We're all swimming in confusion.

[red5]

You see this is were it gets confusing. The animatrix is airing online shorts. (one a month till the movie comes out).the second of which came out at the beginning of the month (the third is due in april). This story is announcing a trailer for the animatrix dvd collection. It's not one of the shorts just a commercial for the dvd coming to stores soon.

Re:high-resolution download

[Anonymous Coward]

The "DIRECT" links are hidden, and for good reason: it costs them serious money to host these huge video files!

At least visit the damn site -- and maybe *gasp* glance at an advertisement -- before you suck down 100+ MegaBytes of pure data at their expense.

Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux?

[BJH]

I just did this, so here it goes...

1) Install libsndfile if you don't have it. (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/#Download )

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 /usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls.

5) Get the latest mplayer source (0.9.0rc5) and run configure with something like this: ./configure --enable-largefiles --with-extraincdir=/usr/local/include --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls

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?

[Bandman]

just make sure that you've added the Sorenson codecs. If you go to the mplayer webpage, there is a place where you can download a ton of addons. Get the sorenson addons, plug them into the directory, and it should work. Hopefully :-)