Here is the Ninth episode of Twenty-Two for the classic TV series “Starman” (1986-7) <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090527/> <http://www.tv.com/shows/starman/> Synopsis of this episode from TV.com: Episode 09 — “Society’s Pet” *** ¡¡¡SPOILERS!!! *** Paul takes Scott to see his foster–father’s sister, a wealthy widow who has a $10,000 inheritance for the boy. But she wants to gain custody of Scott for herself, even if this requires betraying Paul to his pursuers. (Written by unknown with minor modification by me-“*”) -*- Source: official NTSC DVD9 Ripper: MakeMKV v1.7.4 (100% pass-thru mode; see below for specs) Device: Pioneer BDR-203 v1.13 via usb2 and/or internal Matshita UJ-85J vFCQA (with region-free patch available at <http://rpc1.org/>) Splitter: GNU CoreUtils v8.16+ ‘split’ <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> PAR2 generator: par2 command line v0.5.4 <http://github.com/BlackIkeEagle/par2cmdline/> <http://parchive.sourceforge.net/> The DVD seemingly has no captions available, nor chapter marks, nor much else. Playback has been checked with VLC v2.1-git <http://nightly.videolan.org/>, MPlayer <http://www.mplayerhq.hu> (with many requisite projects), QuickTime and Streamclip-v1.9.3b7 <http://www.squared5.com/> (with Perian-v1.2.3 plugin <http://perian.org/>), etc. (I do not have a standalone player that supports matroska, sorry; suggestions welcome.) Posted to GN using a much–improved updated custom version of ‘yencee’ v0.17 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/yencee/>. Driven with ActivePerl v5.12.2 provided by <http://www.ActiveState.com/>. I use bash shell scripts & math formulae I wrote myself. Most open–source code were lovingly compiled myself. Use your favorite PAR2 utility to check & join all parts. Around 5% par2 recovery blocks are provided; more can be generated & posted if needed. This nfo doc is painstakingly hand–crafted with care, using TextWrangler v4.0.1 (build 3152) from <http://www.barebones.com/>. [hope I have not forgotten anything <lol>] Personal note: This series has finally been officially released recently thru “On Demand” ordering at <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007G8SEF2/> which is my source. This is one of my favorite series. The quintessential Alien Father–Son family. <w> I will try uploading one episode per planetary rotation. Maybe more, maybe less, we will see… Please be patient — we do not have very fast pipes here. Technical issues: In 2009 and 2010 in other postings (see the sci-fi series “Thunderstone”), I have explained why we do not post the whole DVD image nor as VOBs, and do not convert to inferior divx/xvid/avi or x264/mp4 formats, so I won’t waste time rehashing the reasons. A lossless ripper is used here. And finally: Please find my “dvd–list” posted in a.f.t.i and elsewhere in recent months for other titles I have in possession. To continue posting what I have, I need feedback from you leechers, please! ;) Enjoy but Remember to BUY THE OFFICIAL DVD KITs! Thank you. :) -*- Specs (from mediainfo-0.7.56): General Complete name : Starman_-_Complete_Series_-_E09_-_Society’s_Pet.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 1.42 GiB Duration : 48mn 3s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 4 229 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-05-22 12:05:44 Writing application : MakeMKV v1.7.4 darwin(x86-release) Writing library : libmakemkv v1.7.4 (1.2.0/1.1.0) darwin(x86-release) Video ID : 1 Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@Main Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, Matrix : Default Codec ID : V_MPEG2 Codec ID/Info : MPEG 1 or 2 Video Duration : 48mn 3s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 3 953 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 8 000 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate mode : Variable Frame rate : 29.970 fps Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Scan order : Top Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.382 Stream size : 1.33 GiB (93%) Language : English Default : No Forced : No Audio ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 48mn 3s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 66.0 MiB (5%) Title : 2/0 Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Menu 00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01 -*- #Local Variables: #coding: utf-8 #End: