Exploding whale AVI file.

[Dan Scherer]

The exploding Oregon whale windows AVI file is now available for downloading
from: ftp cathouse.org \incoming
Please get it and verify for me the truth of this urban legend!
(The file vfw11a.exe is the windows viewer for AVI files)

[Jason R. Heimbaugh]

In article <2q7aj8$i...@hebron.connected.com> xan...@hebron.connected.com (Dan Scherer) writes:
>The exploding Oregon whale windows AVI file is now available for downloading
>from: ftp cathouse.org \incoming

It's now /pub/cathouse/urban.legends/gif/whale.avi. If anyone can make this
an mpeg, and send to me, I'd be happy.

Also, I may not keep this forever, it's almost 12 MB.
--
Jason R. Heimbaugh, j...@uiuc.edu
Lewis Grizzard, no longer my favorite living author, just another one of my
favorite authors.

[Andrew Welsh]

I assume that AVI is a video format. Does anyone fancy converting this to MPEG/
series of JPEG frames/whatever, so that we X-Windows users can admire an
exploding whale?

andrew "it would make a change from everyone else's Star Trek MPEGs' Welsh
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AFU UK II - June 18th - Interested? Mail me.

[Tony Sweeney]

In article <2q7aj8$i...@hebron.connected.com> xan...@hebron.connected.com (Dan Scherer) writes:

Uh, no it isn't. What happened here?

[wolf...@acm.org]

Uh, yes it was. I picked it up a couple days ago. I haven't had a chance to
look at it yet, but there was a 12MB avi file at the above location, as well as
the viewer as of about Monday or Tuesday.

Michael P. Wolf
(MW...@A.PSC.EDU)

[Kenneth C. Jenks]

Tony Sweeney replied

> Uh, no it isn't. What happened here?

It is, kind of. It seems to have been moved. Try...

ftp://cathouse.org/pub/cathouse/urban.legends/gif/whale.avi

I just retrieved it -- it is the real thing. Ugliest exploding whale
I've ever seen.

-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/SD5, Space Biomedical Research Institute
kje...@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368

"Fire streaks the heavens; battle has begun."
-- Klingon "Lullaby"

[Mess with Texas]

In article <1994May11.2...@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>,

kje...@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Kenneth C. Jenks) wrote:

> > >The exploding Oregon whale windows AVI file is now available for
> downloading

> > >(The file vfw11a.exe is the windows viewer for AVI files)

> >
>
> Tony Sweeney replied
> > Uh, no it isn't. What happened here?
>
> It is, kind of. It seems to have been moved. Try...
>
> ftp://cathouse.org/pub/cathouse/urban.legends/gif/whale.avi
>

>

.... okay, I've consumed 12 Megs of disk space for the .avi file, but I
can't find the file vfw11a.exe .... is it at the cathouse????

Dana "breathlessly waiting" Netz
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===Electrochemical Engine Center | you know is wrong"
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[David Davison]

cask...@ix.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>You'll have to go out and buy Microsoft Video For Windows.

Not if you have Os2 installed, it ran fine for me under the windows mplayer.exe under os/2. Though it didn't work under the os2 player.. go figure.

David "Insert lengthy, but somehow poinient comment here" Davison

[cask...@ix.wcc.govt.nz]

In article <netz-120...@mac-gm-ese.esa.lanl.gov>, ne...@esa.lanl.gov (Mess with Texas) writes:
>In article <1994May11.2...@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>,
>kje...@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Kenneth C. Jenks) wrote:
>> > >The exploding Oregon whale windows AVI file is now available for
>> downloading
>> > >(The file vfw11a.exe is the windows viewer for AVI files)
>> >

>..... okay, I've consumed 12 Megs of disk space for the .avi file, but I

>can't find the file vfw11a.exe .... is it at the cathouse????

You'll have to go out and buy Microsoft Video For Windows. The TV station
that filmed the event gets a 30% cut of the profits on every copy sold to
someone who asks for a copy of vfw11a.exe. The program doesn't exist; it's
a codeword to tip the dealer this is a sale to watch the whale go FLOOMPH.

>Dana "breathlessly waiting" Netz

Steve "you're turning a funny colour" Caskey
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cas...@schools.minedu.govt.nz - for the forseeable future
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But seeing what/That man will do/Unbribed, there is no reason to." [ViRo]

[M. Brent Sleeper]

In article <1994May16.2...@relay.acadiau.ca>, 000...@dragon.acadiau.ca (David Davison) writes:
> cask...@ix.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>>You'll have to go out and buy Microsoft Video For Windows.
>
> Not if you have Os2 installed, it ran fine for me under the windows mplayer.exe under os/2. Though it didn't work under the os2 player.. go figure.

There're also a handful of AVI -> QuickTime(tm) converters available. And at
least one QuickTime -> MPEG converter is out there. So... one would think that
supporting Microsoft is not a prerequisite for viewing the Exploding Whale(tm).

Ah... the beauty of Almost Open Systems.

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bsle...@carleton.edu Fligh...@aol.com

[Sean Willard]

M. Brent Sleeper (bsle...@carleton.edu) writes --

|
| There're also a handful of AVI -> QuickTime(tm) converters available. And at
| least one QuickTime -> MPEG converter is out there. So... one would think that
| supporting Microsoft is not a prerequisite for viewing the Exploding Whale(tm).

It's been said before so I'll say it again -- anybody got the
wherewithal to convert this puppy to MPEG? Please?

Sean "I *need* to see that footage for my research on vector meson
production -- really" Willard