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Pixies   07/03/2004

Eurockéennes De Belfort, Belfort, France
Source DVB Digital TV > PC DVB Card > HD > PAL DVD
Media PAL DVD   1 disc
Notes 3814 MB, 91:23 (main title) plus 15:58 (extras). See J-Card Comment for details.
J-Card Comment Pixies
3 July 2004
Les Eurockéennes de Belfort
Belfort, France

DVD Format: PAL with MPEG Audio
Total Size: 3814 MB
Running time: 91m 23s (main title) 15m 58s (extras)

SUMMARY:

Main Title:

1. Full, uncut performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival on
3 July 2004, as broadcast on the French TV channel MCM on 15
September 2004.

2. Two songs from the Move festival in Manchester, UK on 10 July 2004,
as broadcast on UK TV station ITV1.

3. Four songs from the T In The Park festival, Scotland on 11 July
2004, as broadcast on BBC Scotland.

All material on this DVD was recorded directly from DVB digital TV
broadcasts using a PC DVB card - no analogue stages were involved.
The video stream for Eurockéennes needed to be recompressed, but no
other streams have been changed from the original broadcast data.

All recordings are confirmed to be 100% error-free - i.e. no dropped
frames.


DETAILED DVD CONTENT

1. Les Eurockéennes de Belfort - 3 July 2004 (91m 23s)

Source: TV Broadcast on MCM France, 15 September 2004 (4.00am-5.30am)
Lineage: DVB Digital Satellite TV -> PC DVB Card -> HD

Video: 720x576 PAL MPEG-2 4:3 (16:9 letterboxed) (re-encoded at 4Mbit/s)
Audio: 256kbps/48KHz MPEG-1, Layer II

Setlist:

01 - Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)
02 - In Heaven
03 - Something Against You
04 - River Euphrates
05 - U-MASS
06 - Bone Machine
07 - Cactus
08 - Ed Is Dead
09 - I Bleed
10 - Monkey Gone To Heaven
11 - Hey
12 - No.13 Baby
13 - Levitate Me
14 - Subbacultcha
15 - Dead
16 - Gouge Away
17 - Velouria
18 - Caribou
19 - Mr. Grieves
20 - Crackity Jones
21 - Broken Face
22 - Isla de Encanta
23 - Tame
24 - Here Comes Your Man
25 - Nimrod's Son
26 - Holiday Song
27 - Where Is My Mind?
28 - Vamos

Encore:

29 - Wave of Mutilation
30 - Debaser
31 - Gigantic

NOTES:

This concert was broadcast twice on MCM France - firstly on the 12
September at 10.30pm-Midnight, and secondly at 4.00am-5.30am on 15
September. There was a technical problem with the first broadcast,
causing a small glitch during "Gigantic" in all recordings of that
broadcast. The second broadcast was error-free.

NOTES ON VIDEO RE-ENCODING:

The original video stream (which had a relatively low average bitrate
of 3.0Mbit/s) contained 18-frame GOPs, which is not DVD compliant -
most hardware DVD players cannot play it correctly - so the video
needed to be re-encoded.

The TV broadcast included the "MCM" logo contained completely within
the black letterbox border at the top-right corner of the screen, so I
took the opportunity to use a "blacken borders" filter to remove this
logo during the re-encoding stage.

The re-encoding was done using the "two-pass DVD" encoding settings of
the Linux program "avidemux2" with GOP size set to 15, a maximum
bitrate of 8000kbit/s and a target filesize of 3000MB. This filesize
was chosen to be significantly larger than the source file (about
2000MB) in order to minimise any quality loss during the re-encoding.

The resulting video has an average bitrate of 4.4Mbit/s with a maximum
bitrate of 7.9Mbit/s.

2. Move Festival, 10 July 2004 (6m 47s)

Source: TV broadcast on ITV1, 17 July 2004
Lineage: DVB Digital Terrestrial TV -> PC DVB card -> HD

Video: 704x576 16:9 PAL MPEG-2
Audio: 192kbps/48KHz MPEG-1, Layer II

Setlist:

01 - Here Comes Your Man
02 - Where Is My Mind?

NOTES:

This recording consists of the original MPEG data as broadcast by ITV.
The broadcast MPEG data was simply "saved" to the hard disk using a PC
DVB card, and then re-multiplexed to the DVD standard.

The recording is confirmed to be free of reception errors - i.e. no
dropped frames.

ITV broadcast two highlights programmes from the Move Festival, but
these were the only two Pixies songs included.


3. T In The Park festival, Scotland - 11 July 2004 (9m 11s)

Source: Combination of two TV broadcasts on BBC One & BBC Two Scotland
Lineage: DVB Digital Satellite TV -> PC DVB card -> HD

Video: 720x576 16:9 PAL MPEG-2
Audio: 256kbps/48KHz MPEG-1, Layer II

Setlist:

01 - Bone Machine
02 - Broken Face
03 - Something Against You
04 - Debaser

NOTES:

This recording consists of the original MPEG data as broadcast by the
BBC. I have simply "saved" the MPEG data to my hard disk, spliced
together the two seperate broadcasts, and then re-multiplexed it to
the DVD standard.

The recording is confirmed to be free of reception errors - i.e. no
dropped frames.

Tracks 1-3 were broadcast together in one segment on the T In The Park
highlights programme on BBC Two Scotland on 23 July 2004. Track 4 was
broadcast on the T In The Park highlights programme on BBC One
Scotland on the night of the festival - 11 July 2004. Tracks 1, 2 and
4 were also broadcast on BBC Three on the night of the festival.

This recording consists of the versions broadcast on BBC Two Scotland
and BBC One Scotland - the BBC Three footage has an on-screen logo.

Only these four songs have been broadcast to date on the BBC.
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