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Old site is still accessible: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ I think my favorite part is you can download the original trailer i

Old site is still accessible: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ I think my favorite part is you can download the original trailer in a crisp 160x120 and 8 fps https://www.spacejam.com/1996/cmp/jamcentral/trailerframes.html https://www.spacejam.com/1996/cmp/jamcentral/trailerframes.h...

tombert 6y ago
> It's 7.5 megs, it's Quicktime, and it's worth it. I can't say I disagree. I got substantially more entertainment downloading this and watching the potato-quality trailer than I did actually watching Space Jam.
- hughw 6y ago
  How come my Big Sur MBP can't play it? It can play the audio, but no video.
  - jibbers 6y ago
    Download IINA and use it instead of QuickTime Player.
    - skavi 6y ago
      IINA and VLC are great, but I prefer QuickTime when it works, just because the scrubbing is so incredibly smooth. Are there any other players available with scrubbing as smooth as QT?
  - tombert 6y ago
    I just loaded it with ffplay, and it worked fine. According to ffprobe, it's just using raw PCM for the audio channel, which would explain why the audio still works. I don't know when Quicktime stopped supporting the Cinepak codec.
  - happymellon 6y ago
    Apple depricate everything, including codecs. Get VLC.
re 6y ago
Video codec is Cinepak, which macOS doesn't support any more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak (Good thing there's VLC!) Audio is raw PCM (8 bit mono audio @ 11kHz) QuickTime wouldn't get support for the more advanced Sorenson Video and QDesign Music audio codecs until QuickTime v3.0, released in 1998.
daniellarusso 6y ago
Very ‘Heaven’s Gate’ design vibe.
- agildehaus 6y ago
  Or maybe the Heaven's Gate website had a very Space Jam design vibe.
  - sterlind 6y ago
    they were web designers, after all.
oplav 6y ago
Created with Adobe Premier 4.2. Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'spacejam.mov': Metadata: creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z premiere_version: Created with Adobe Premiere 4.2 quicktime_version: Created with QuickTime 2.0 or later Duration: 00:02:14.87, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 458 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Video: cinepak (cvid / 0x64697663), rgb24, 160x120, 365 kb/s, 8 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z handler_name : Apple Video Media Handler encoder : Cinepak Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_u8 (raw / 0x20776172), 11025 Hz, 1 channels, u8, 88 kb/s (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z handler_name : Apple Sound Media Handler
nunez 6y ago
Wow that trailer brought back some BIG nostalgia, even through that epic potato quality. (I had to use VLC to play it.)
arnaudsm 6y ago
I really wonder how good-looking the trailer would be if reencoded in HEVC at the same bitrate. 7.7Mb is decent.

tombert 6y ago

> It's 7.5 megs, it's Quicktime, and it's worth it. I can't say I disagree. I got substantially more entertainment downloading this and watching the potato-quality trailer than I did actually watching Space Jam.

hughw 6y ago
How come my Big Sur MBP can't play it? It can play the audio, but no video.
- jibbers 6y ago
  Download IINA and use it instead of QuickTime Player.
  - skavi 6y ago
    IINA and VLC are great, but I prefer QuickTime when it works, just because the scrubbing is so incredibly smooth. Are there any other players available with scrubbing as smooth as QT?
- tombert 6y ago
  I just loaded it with ffplay, and it worked fine. According to ffprobe, it's just using raw PCM for the audio channel, which would explain why the audio still works. I don't know when Quicktime stopped supporting the Cinepak codec.
- happymellon 6y ago
  Apple depricate everything, including codecs. Get VLC.

re 6y ago

Video codec is Cinepak, which macOS doesn't support any more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak (Good thing there's VLC!) Audio is raw PCM (8 bit mono audio @ 11kHz) QuickTime wouldn't get support for the more advanced Sorenson Video and QDesign Music audio codecs until QuickTime v3.0, released in 1998.

daniellarusso 6y ago

Very ‘Heaven’s Gate’ design vibe.

agildehaus 6y ago
Or maybe the Heaven's Gate website had a very Space Jam design vibe.
- sterlind 6y ago
  they were web designers, after all.

oplav 6y ago

Created with Adobe Premier 4.2. Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'spacejam.mov': Metadata: creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z premiere_version: Created with Adobe Premiere 4.2 quicktime_version: Created with QuickTime 2.0 or later Duration: 00:02:14.87, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 458 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Video: cinepak (cvid / 0x64697663), rgb24, 160x120, 365 kb/s, 8 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z handler_name : Apple Video Media Handler encoder : Cinepak Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_u8 (raw / 0x20776172), 11025 Hz, 1 channels, u8, 88 kb/s (default) Metadata: creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z handler_name : Apple Sound Media Handler

nunez 6y ago

Wow that trailer brought back some BIG nostalgia, even through that epic potato quality. (I had to use VLC to play it.)

arnaudsm 6y ago

I really wonder how good-looking the trailer would be if reencoded in HEVC at the same bitrate. 7.7Mb is decent.