If you like Ray Mears Survival videos...

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Kirk D

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Real Player will work, once I start the DivX Player first thing in the morning. For me, Real Player is better than DivX Player if you try to Maximize your video.

Kind of frustrating GETTING the *huge* setup..., but once you've got it, you unzip the .rar into the various videos (oh, yeah..., the 10.1 gigabyte is a zipped single piece, and you have to use a RAR archiver to unzip the individual videos :jerkit: ) I had to use WinAce..., or WinRAR...., can't remember which, but it DID work.

Anyway, I ended up with Ray Mears Bushcraft Series 1 (Aboriginal Britain, two Solomon's, Africa Camp, and Africa Safari), Bushcraft Series 2 (Birch Canoe, Canoe Journey, American Prairies, Sweden, and Four Seasons), Extreme Survival Series 1 (Jungle survival, Arctic Survival, Psychological Survival, Sea Survival, The Arizona Desert, and Arnhemland), Extreme Survival Series 2 (Sahara Desert, The Rocky Mountains, Outback Survival, Military Survival, Mountain Survival, and Desert Island), and Extreme Survival Series 3 (Belarus, Solomon, Alaska Solomon, Namibia, Thailand Solomon, and New Zealand Solomon).
 
One last time, to make sure everyone knows that the internet links are available.

Everyone seemed to like the Ray Mears Alaska video, so a significant "survival" people here would like all the other Mears videos..., but the download takes a long time to download it.
 
I don't know about the US, but the Outdoor Life channel is doing survival for the school break in Canada and is putting on 5 Ray shows this week. Jungle Camp, Africa Camp, Canoe Journey, America, Sweden.
 
Honestly, I haven't hear anything about copyright on this. Nothing on the videos I'm seeing, nothing on the "bit torrent" videos in that place that offers them.

I haven't seen about copyright on the "Ray Mears Extreme Survival : alaska" that's in the "Alaska.Extreme.Survival {Ray.Mears} BBC 50 min 13 sec - Feb 19, 2006 parabri.100free.com" in the Google video...., doesn't say "copyright".

If BBC says the videos are copyrighted, and I have them illegal..., that'll be fine, I'll delete them. The 10.1 gigabytes won't fit them into my CDs. :)
 
kid,
if i install these codecs can i then watch the mears videos? which video player will they work with realplayer, windows media, divx?

alex
 
Kid??? :rolleyes:

I'm 52 years old :cool:

As for what you seemed to questioning..., I haven't tried all kinds. I tried to download the 10.1 gb, and couldn't 'til I downloaded the "bit torrent" software. Took a bit more than 2 days to put the 10.1 gb in my hard-drive, and couldn't figure out what to do with a single 10.1 gb until someone else mentioned about the "unzip the .rar".., so I finded a couple of .rar downloadable software and ended up with a couple dozen videos. Great!!! Until all I could do is HEAR Mears (on realplayer and windows media), but couldn't SEE anything. :(

But Real Player said they didn't have DivX, so I googled DivX 'til I found a couple different downloads, and as soon as I ran the software, I could SEE and HEAR the videos. Looked at all the Survival series! Fantastic!!!

Until you tried to look at any of the Extreme Survival series. Could SEE, but couldn't HEAR anything. :mad:

Finally found the AC3 codecs, which can be downloaded in the Storm Codec package, for free. Runned the software and, suddenly, the Real Player is using SEEing and HEARing..., and I'm done. (I hope :rolleyes: ) Haven't tried the windows media after using the Real Player. I had tried the divx video player for a while, which looks very nice initially, but if you Maximize it, the video does problems, and doesn't work nearly as well as Real Player.

And with the Maximize playing I look to see the entire monitor full of Mears video, and is all sharp and clean.
 
sorry for the kid, clumsy fginger,

thanks for the information i am only a couple of days into the down load, i will try the unzip when the down load is complete , i have downloaded the codecs, so we will see what is going to happen.

thanks
alex
 
Sure <g>,

And I assume you have the DivX player. Once I had DivX in my computer, both the DivX player and Real Player worked.

So if you have the rest of the pieces, you should be able to look at *all* the videos.

Oh, and when you get downloading your 10.1 gb..., it'll get you to 99% done, and it starts slowing down to nothing. After several hours, it stayed at 99%, so I did a "pause", then starting again, and it went nearly immediately 100%, so that *might* help. I've heard that "bit torrent" will start uploading your downloading software for other people, so uploading is very fast, but our download is extremely slow.
 
i have the divix player on my computer as well as realplayer so i am waiting for the download to finish.

alex
 
Kirk D said:
Honestly, I haven't hear anything about copyright on this. Nothing on the videos I'm seeing, nothing on the "bit torrent" videos in that place that offers them.
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Are you kidding? Of course tv-shows like this are copyrighted. If the video files have the end credits intact, there should be a copyright notice at the very end. Anyway, any original work is considered copyrighted by default (de facto, at least) in the world today. The Ray Mears programs certainly are. To what extent, if any, the copyright holders have decided to give up their rights to their work is another, case specific matter. In cases such as this, you should always assume they haven't, unless specified.

Depending on your local legislation, it may be illegal to download copyrighted material that is not being offered with the approval of the rights holder, and usually is illegal to upload/pass it on.

Kirk D said:
Oh, and when you get downloading your 10.1 gb..., it'll get you to 99% done, and it starts slowing down to nothing. After several hours, it stayed at 99%, so I did a "pause", then starting again, and it went nearly immediately 100%, so that *might* help. I've heard that "bit torrent" will start uploading your downloading software for other people, so uploading is very fast, but our download is extremely slow.
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BT software starts uploading as soon as you have any of the file downloaded (if there are other download requests, unless you've changed the upload settings, restricted uploads...), and it shouldn't slow down your download, as your download and upload bandwidths are probably separate. You're download rate is dependant on the 'seeds' that are available to upload the file to you, network congestion, etc. I haven't used the same client program you apparently have, but generally there shouldn't be the kind of problem you described if there are seeds. It probably just looked up a faster source for the file after you restarted the download, or something.
 
Way-0 and Amiga,

I've never ripped of anyone or anything.

I've gone through half of the videos, through the end of each video.. shows the producers, and camera people and etc..., and finally ends up to the BBC company..., and there is NO copyright.

Is the http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...36678584754975 Alaska video free or copyrighted?

As I've seen..., if BBC shows any copyrighting issues involved, I'll delete it (from MY computer..., BBC would have to after the BT place.)

Way-O,

I dunno about the BT issue.., I've never done that until a few days back. It DID start uploading immediately, and did the whole two days. My downloading was about 100-140kb during the day, and dropped to around 30-60 during the evening. But when it got to 99% done, the upload went to about 20-30 bytes (not kilobytes.., single bytes!). I waited 9 hours being that slow, before I paused the download (and upload) for about 30 seconds, then let it go again, and the kb downloaded quick, then finished to 100%.

Kirk
 
Kirk D said:
Way-0 and Amiga,

I've never ripped of anyone or anything.
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I'm not accusing you of anything, but you need to be aware that with these kind of things, we're in a gray area legally. If by some chance you'd be contacted by authorities in a copyright violation matter, things can get expensive. This is of course not at all likely to happen, but there are really no "I didn't know" excuses.

Kirk D said:
I've gone through half of the videos, through the end of each video.. shows the producers, and camera people and etc..., and finally ends up to the BBC company..., and there is NO copyright.

Is the http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...36678584754975 Alaska video free or copyrighted?

As I've seen..., if BBC shows any copyrighting issues involved, I'll delete it (from MY computer..., BBC would have to after the BT place.)
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The Mears video on google appears to be removed. The only video the search brings up there is an ad for Mears' book. I very much doubt that the Alaska episode was uploaded there by the rights holder. And it is without a doubt copyrighted material.

I did download myself the world of survival season 1 from you're link (and violated local law doing so). Those episodes did have the copyright notice intact. Whether or not all of those other programs do, it is not really likely at all that bbc (or whoever) gave up their rights to the material/let it be spread on the net for free.
 
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