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Jdo300

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HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« on: April 14, 2008, 08:40:29 AM »
Hello All,

Here is the promised thread with information on the video. Below I have posted a couple of comparison screenshots so you can all see how great the quality is compared to the videos available online now. I also have included instructions for downloading the torrent (and installing torrent software if you don't have any).

Brief Description of the video contents

As far as footage is concerned, all the video is the same as what is available online now, with the exception of the greater image quality. There are three video clips from the available TPU videos online that are included in the footage. The first part of the video contains the first 16 minutes of the UEC video that was posted: (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=167210479374903373).

The second clip is of the first open TPU that Steven pulls from the plastic case (same as this video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8435800732540412467)

The third clip shows the two demonstrations of Steven's larger Open TPU, the first of which is shown in the following clip: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=333661567309752927

The second part is also floating around online somewhere but I can't seem to find it at the moment.

Video Tech Specs

Format: Raw DVD (.VOB)
Size: 3.4GB
Run Time: 1 hr 14 mins 37 secs
Resolution: 720 x 480
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Audio: 256 Kbits Dolby Audio

Screenshots for Quality Comparison

(http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4486.0;attach=22415;image)
Open TPU 1 (Low Quality)

(http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4486.0;attach=22416;image)
Open TPU 1 (High Quality)

(http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4486.0;attach=22417;image)
Open TPU 2 (Low Quality)

(http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4486.0;attach=22418;image)
Open TPU 2 (High Quality)

Instructions for BitTorrent Download

I am presently the only one seeding the torrent for the Video file. I simply took the contents of the DVD and put them into a single zip file. I may also make a .ISO file available for download later but I'm doing the zip file first because it dropped the file size from 4.1GB down to 3.4GB.

***IMPORTANT***     ***IMPORTANT***      ***IMPORTANT***      ***IMPORTANT***

For those of you who are familiar with torrents, you know that the download speed is determined by the number of people seeding the torrent. Currently I am the only one who has the full copy of the file and and with a limited upload speed of only 57KB/s upstream, having other people help to seed the torrent after completing the download will significantly increase the download rate for others. So I'm asking that after you download the file, please leave your torrent client running for at least a day to allow others to enjoy the faster transfer speeds.

Before making this post, I setup the torrent and there are currently nine people online who are in the swarm; so the speed should be pretty decent by the time everyone else jumps on board.

Here is the link to download the torrent file: http://tpu.thruhere.net:6969/

For those who don't have a BitTorrent client installed, I recommend using Azureus (www.azureus.com). Below I've included some quick instructions on how to set it up if you don't have it already.

Setup Instructions
Download and install the Azureus client from the above link
Download the torrent file from the link I mentioned above and save it somewhere where you can get to it easily.
After opening the program, the first thing you want to do is make sure that you can connect to the torrent network. Goto the Tools menu and select "NAT /  Firewall Test"
Select the test button and see if the program returns with "OK!" in the results box
If you get an error, chances are that you are being blocked by a firewall. In this case you will need to open up a port on your router and/or firewall software to allow the program to access the internet through an open port. Check out this link here for more information on forwarding ports: http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Port_forwarding
Once the network issues are resolved, goto the File menu, select Advanced, and click on the "My Torrents" command. The screen will change and you will see two windows on the screen. The top list shows torrents that you are downloading and the bottom list shows torrents that you are seeding (sharing with others)
If there are any torrents downloading or uploading (there will probably be one for some media player thing the program tries to download) then just stop and delete it by right-clicking on the torrent in the list, and selecting "Remove and" and "Delete Both" commands in the shortcut menu,
Now to start downloading the TPU video, goto File, select Open, and "Torrent File."
In the dialog box that appears, select the folder that you want the video to be saved in by clicking the Browse button next to the "Location to save data" textbox.
Now click the "Add Files" button at the top of the dialog and browse for the torrent file that you downloaded from the link I posted above. Once selected, it will appear in the list at the top of the dialog. Select the OK button and the torrent should start downloading.
To check on the statistics and see how many other people are downloading, simply double-click on the torrent in the main window and a tab with more information will appear.

And thats it!

Final Remarks

I plan on seeding this torrent for the next three or four days depending on how many people get on to download it. But afterwards, I'll continue to upload the files to the MediaShare folder that I made (http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=bcb5de0bd0f181ea8c9e7c56ba37815f5a52c02ec6da2cd7) but it will take a while for me to get all the file pieces up. So if you can download the video from the torrent while it's running now, that would be the best solution, especially if everyone gets on it all at once.

And again, please leave your client running for a day or so after downloading so that it will be available to others!

God Bless,
Jason O

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2008, 09:10:27 AM »
thanks man again

and utorrent is better ;D


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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2008, 09:25:28 AM »
thanks man again

and utorrent is better ;D

Haha I'll have to look into that one. Looks like there are more people using it  :)

Just letting you all know that I'm off to bed for the night here and will check the torrent in the morning. I am hosting both the file and the torrent tracker from my system so if the connection gets interrupted overnight it will kill the network for everyone. In the event that this happens, just leave it running and I'll get it restarted again when I get up.

God Bless,
Jason O

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2008, 09:39:14 AM »
The video as shipped was bumped from a hi-8 to a hi-8 to DVD. I would have liked to have sent it prior but I was hoping to be able to have my hi-8 deck repaired so I could create a better copy. Ironically the deck, a Sony EV-C100, was Steven's prior to it becoming mine. As to the reason why there's several scene repeats with rewinds I was trying to assure that I didn't miss any valuable scenes due to dropouts or other anomalies.

Since this is my first post here I would like to clarify a few things. Regardless of what you may think of me or my motives I would like to say that I would have been much more accommodating in getting this recording out if it weren't for a few people in this forum attacking my character again and again. I did reach a point where I wondered why I would ever want to help a group so littered with paranoid  malcontents. Then over time after communicating directly with "Wattsup" and a few other quality members from this forum I realized that I was wrong. As in any group you have a microcosm of society. With that said I would like to help this cause in any way I can. I do have a well equipped lab for doing analog and R.F. work.

All the best,

Jack Durban

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2008, 09:43:06 AM »
im pullin it down now will re encode to a avi should drop the file to about 600ish without to much of a quality loss.




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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2008, 09:49:47 AM »
If you really want the best quality use DIVX. The Codec works with Adobe Premiere and as a standalone converter for just $30.00.

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2008, 09:54:05 AM »
Hi Jack,

Thanks for joining us here on the forum! These high-quality video clips will be very valuable to us as we can glean loads of fine details about the devices from analyzing and clarifying the sound and images.

One thing I believe we will need help with is identifying some of the pieces and parts that we see in the two open TPU video clips. I have noticed a lot of new things that I couldn't see previously thanks to the higher resolution but will go into details later as I am about to pass out on my keyboard  :P.

Have you had the opportunity to see/handle either of the open TPUs in person?

God Bless,
Jason O

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2008, 10:08:05 AM »
thanks jack
 :D :D :D

you are THE MAN

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2008, 10:08:11 AM »
I was able to play with the larger unit but not the smaller ones. You will notice that the latter small unit has a speaker connector as the output. That may or not be visually apparent. I truly believe that the smaller two units reveal much more information than the big unit. They really show the scalability of the technology and they are much more revealing visually. There is just no room for much more than the coils and the interface and I am almost 100% certain there were no integrated circuits involved at all. My belief is that the primary was a resonant tuned receiver and the secondary was somewhat conventional.

Good luck!

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2008, 10:57:17 AM »
Jack, welcome to the forum, and thanks a lot for the video!!! 
Any recollections you might have of the devices, materials, etc will help greatly.    Like Jason said, we should identify as many of the parts as possible, and your help can be invaluable.

One curiosity I have is , what are the two rings made of?   (seen in the open TPU,  the one with the speaker connector) Are they iron rings?  plastic?

Jason,   what program did you use to zip up the files?  I'm running Microsoft XP and when I click on the first TPU DVD.zip file it says it's corrupted.   (I did download all the z01,z02....z19 parts)

Finally, I just want to express my joy once again.  I thought we might never get a better copy of this first TPU, and all the holding back by LM was just unbearable.   Guys, if we are ever going to find the secret we need to work together and share whatever info we have.  We will have arguments and we will have mockers that drop in to see our efforts, but we will succeed despite it all !!!

EM

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2008, 11:54:25 AM »
Hi EM you may use winrar
you can download from this site:

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2008, 02:06:21 PM »
@Jack,
Many thanks for taking the time to create and send the DVD to Jason.

Would it be possible to get further clips from the original?
Jason mentioned that there were a few portions that were fast forwarded through that would be useful.

@All
I was discussing with Jason as to how the TPU may work:
This has probably been said a few times before in one form or another..... one idea was that the train of pulses feed into the three or four control coils causes a localised spin of a magnetic field in the form of a vortex or doughnut.  This magnetic spin then induces current in the collector coil, but because the spin speed is very fast, say 250,000 RPM then the field can be very weak yet still provide a large current/voltage in the collector coil. The coils are not actually moving a rotor so there should be no noticable resistance when a load is applied to the collector. This slowly building vortex idea fits in with clip where SM turns one of the cores over and the voltage dips then rises again. (I have not seen this clip but Jason mentioned it).
So perhaps what we are seeing is the coriolis effect with the ether and the pulsing of the control coils is the pulling of the plug out of the bath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

Its possible the heating effect is the eddy currents occuring in the thicker copper coils and this could be combated with multi-strand wire.
It should be possible to fit all the electronics to pulse the coils onto a postage stamp sized board once we know how it works. ;)

Regards
Rob


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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2008, 02:24:39 PM »
Thanks Jack for all.

I (and others) warned the troops a couple times regarding exactly what you said about getting bashed about, and I was surprised it even happened, but glad you decided that we aren't that bad after-all. I hope they've all learned something.

I, like EM am curious about the two black rings on the unit with the speaker connector. Any idea what material they are, and maybe what they were taken from?

Also, there's the first small unit that looks like a wire spool or something, what is the basic construction of that device?

Thanks again. From JDO's pics, it looks to be the same quality video that LM has  ;D

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2008, 02:48:30 PM »
If you really want the best quality use DIVX. The Codec works with Adobe Premiere and as a standalone converter for just $30.00.

avi is the file extension for divx, xvid and a few others. I like vlc to do encoding.

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Re: HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2008, 02:56:48 PM »
@JD

Thanks for your great help, effort and patience with us in our continued SM saga. You have too admit that most of the guys here are made of the metal and will not give up and thanks to better quality videos, this WILL now help us even more. I guess I will not need your DVD after all, with thanks.

Just from the short video you put up on YouTube, you can now clearly see the only visible SM circuit board on the OTPU (looks like a transistor radio circuit - lol) , plus I can see a horizontal wire on the Coil No. 3 that I had imagined would have to be there. This is great.

@all

I also downloaded the z01 to z19 and the zip file. Used Winrar to then create the master VTS_01_1.VOB file. Now the thing is to find the right player for this. WMP is opening it but nothing is happening.

So as Jack suggested, I downloaded the free DIVX from here http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/

Even with DIVX, nothing so I used the DIVX converter but get an error about a missing AC3 Filter which I downloaded here http://ac3filter.net/project/1/releases. Go down a bit and click on the AC3Filter 1.46 Installer that will take you to a mirror site. If download does not start, there is a link for direct download. Save the file to your hard drive then execute it.

I am now converting the *.VOB file but it is slow. Should take 1 hour but before converting, the program said the final file would be about 260mb which is not bad at all. Will advise when it is done.

OH I FORGOT to thank Jason also for his great help in setting up the download site. Thanks Jason.