Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Ripper Street - Series 4

As you probably know, a fourth series of Ripper Street was produced but was available only by streaming on Amazon Prime. The six episodes were made available back in late January to early February. 
Since then quite a few people have asked me about it.
I have HD .mp4 1280 X 720 recordings of the first five episodes, but they will not convert to .avi files without sending the audio extremely out of sync (beyond repair) with the video.
The 6th episode from the same set contained many glitches of all sorts, but I do have an alternative
recording that is HD .mp4 848 X 480 with synced audio/video, but the video suffers from dropped frames which creates a slightly herky-jerky movement of the action. It was probably recorded with a cheap home DVR that could not process the data fast enough for HD.
I copied the 6 episodes to a USB flash drive and plugged it into a Samsung TV and they played great.
My Mediasonic HomeWorx media player/recorder died a few months ago so I can't plug the USB flash drive into it to see if they play on that, but they should.
Since I can just connect a flash drive or hard drive directly into the TV I have no need to replace the Mediasonic HomeWorx player.
If anyone would like a copy of those files they require two discs.

For those of you still living with DVD players, etc. the series is being released on DVD in about two months. You can pre-order it on Amazon. The DVD is about $30 and the Blue-ray version about $35.
That's Region 1 discs. To date, I'm not aware of any forthcoming availability in Region 2 or 4.
There have also been some reports that the series will air on BBC One sometime in the future. The 2nd and 3rd series were aired in late Autumn, so perhaps in late November? We'll have to wait and see. If so, then some .avi recordings may become available. 
There are also a couple people selling this on iOffer.


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