Where did you watch the Lions?

BogOak

i managed to get over the first hurdle of getting myself out of the leaba and then started to panic, stalking around town trying to find a spot. i eventually saw the match on a tv in a pub that was locked up and looked empty. i knocked on the window and the owners let me in to watch it, made me a cup of coffee and everything. i don't want to say where it was. and i don't want to abuse their hospitality either by showing up at eight o clock every saturday morning, so did anyone else find anywhere good? preferably somewhere that was actually open?

somano

2nd half with les enfants at a mates house. Wanted to know what took me so long as his kids were annoying him. Arrangement could be a bit tough for the Tests though.

daveirl

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Souless

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Heh ya lucky git :P I just watched it at home myself

Nukem

At home half asleep

BogOak

jesus its well for some isn't it? laying at home on your couch... heading off to new zealand... while i tramp around the streets like some sort of scruffy denis "hobo" hickie. anyone go to a pub or hotel or anything?

gjim

Saw it in the Dropping Well in Milltown which opened specially for the game at around seven and had their kitchen start early to lay on breakfasts. Ate a full Irish breakfast (8 quid) at the bar with two cups of decent strong coffee followed by a pint of cider. Not bad at all. The only irritating thing was the group of young students sitting at a table at the back who either were still drunk from the night before or were just natural born idiots and who kept yapping on loudly about the most stupid things during the match.

Crash

My brother and father and myself headed into the woolshed for 8 - great atmosphere - probably a 50 50 split of support for bay of plenty in there which was cool

RuggieBear

at home and then made a big greasy breakfast for everyone.....and i also managed to tape the game and transfer it to my harddrive in lovely xvid....

BogOak

yeah i reckon i'll head over to the woolshed the next time... miles from my gaff though. milltown's not much better. i wonder is there anything in the landsdowne road area? that's only down the road from me. slattery's maybe. shame about dallaglio. and rog probably blew his slim chances. its great to watch it unfold though.

PowerHouseDan

Fancy uploading it? Would like to have it on xvid?

RuggieBear wrote:

at home and then made a big greasy breakfast for everyone.....and i also managed to tape the game and transfer it to my harddrive in lovely xvid....

RuggieBear

well...tbh, it's a pretty big upload as i'm a bit useless when it comes to optimum xvid compression v quality.....but to cut a long story short it's about 900MB a half :eek:

PowerHouseDan

RuggieBear

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i know i know....

tis much easier with dvds (most of it's automated) and i'm a total novice with vcr to avi transfer.

Crash

Hehe sorry i didnt drop up ruggie - good laugh was it?

RuggieBear

hey no worries....yeah it was fun....mind you, i spent most of the second half cooking breakfast for me mates.....

Kevin_rc_ie

crash_000 wrote:

My brother and father and myself headed into the woolshed for 8 - great atmosphere - probably a 50 50 split of support for bay of plenty in there which was cool

i'm going to do this next week.

daveirl

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PowerHouseDan

What kinda upload speed you got ruggie?

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PowerHouseDan

Yeah well i have a 2mb upload so seeding at high speed isent a problem?Be nice to have a collection of the Lions Tour..........

RuggieBear

TBH...i dl the Argentinian game and it is 700mb and the quality is basically the same as mine

I might have another go tomorrow. Wouldn't mind uploading it except i'm on UTV's silly 2meg down 128k up (:eek: )...if ever there was a product designed to irritate file sharers this is it.

RuggieBear

how do i get it to you guys privately.....ftp?

daveirl

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PowerHouseDan

Even Though it was a crap game i'd love to see the argen one Was in A&E in the hospital when it was on had to watch Country Farm....................

PowerHouseDan

You got a dvd burner ruggie?

RuggieBear

EDIT: I have a dvd burner!


i tell you what.....i can stick both games on a dvd.

Is there anyway to reencode an xvid avi to make it smaller and still watchable.

I recorded the whole prematch and halftime talk and alot of the postmatch stuff. When i cut that stuff out i lose about 300meg.

PowerHouseDan

I dont no much about editin ask on the computer forum?

RuggieBear

i can edit it myself in virtualdub but i just can't get suffiecent quality when i try to encode it to anything smaller i'll wander over to the comp lab...emm...forum!

PowerHouseDan

Would people Prefer a Torrent or Ftp?

daveirl

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PowerHouseDan

Yeah will do, i will try to record the games myself too.........Just have to figure out how to get my dvd recorder workin will keep ye posted

Sundy

crash_000 wrote:

My brother and father and myself headed into the woolshed for 8 - great atmosphere - probably a 50 50 split of support for bay of plenty in there which was cool

i was there too, and the breakfast rolls were quality!

RuggieBear

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Afraid i've reported you Dave....


yeah that's the one i got.....couldn't get my vcr working on my 2nd AV channel in time for the Argetinian match so i dl'ed it instead.

Got some advice over on comps forum so i'll spend tomorrow experimenting and getting it down to a reasonable size.

andyman

Watched the match in the el leaba. Shame about Dallaglio but no-one said the All-Blacks would play clean.

RuggieBear

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Shame about Dallaglio but no-one said the All-Blacks would play clean.

huh? Are you implying that Dayglo's injury was as a consequence of the All Blacks?

daveirl

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