This is a DVD ISO designed by Terry Hancock, using a collection of animated videos by Nina Paley (already available separately on Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/NinaVision).

There is a tutorial at Free Software Magazine ( http://fsmsh.com/3267 ) which describes in detail how this DVD was mastered, using QDVDAuthor.

As of the first upload, there are still a few issues with this master, specifically:

1) Poor video quality on the "Copying Is Not Theft" and the trailer for "Sita Sings The Blues". These resulted in some transcoding artifacts. I am currently looking for better originals to work from.

2) The menuloop is not quite edited correctly, so it "jumps" at the end of the loop (this is not very objectionable as the loop is long anyway).

However, the DVD is quite usable, and the main program animations don't have any problems that I have noticed.

I am also planning to upload the additional source media needed (menu images and video loops, etc) to follow the DVD mastering tutorial (and replicate or improve on this ISO). I'm not sure I can provide "full source", because it's not clear that it is portable (I think QDVDAuthor uses absolute links to find media files).

ninavision_menuloop_v3.mpeg is an improved menu loop for the DVD's main menu (fixed the editing problem mentioned above, and it is slightly shorter).

ninavision_menuloop_mod_quiet.ogg is replacement audio for the loop above, with several minor edits -- the level has been equalized between the different clips, a fade-in and fade-out have been added at the beginning and end to smooth out the transition during playback (many DVD players will pause for seek time, which is less objectionable if the soundtrack doesn't have a noticeable glitch), and the whole thing is reduced in volume.

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