Glenn Gould Collection Vol I AVC AC3 720p torrent

Somehow or other, I managed to obtain a DVD RIP of a mishmash of video recordings of Glenn Gould from about 1960 onwards (ie. some in black and white, some color). The DVD itself contains interviews and news clips, all spoken in English but (sadly) all overdubbed in German. Even Glenn Gould himself could not get a sentence in edgewise.

A few words of his did manage to get through, but only enough to tease the viewer, and better left forgotten.

Strangely the German voice chosen to replace Gould's reminded me of a truck driver I once met while hitchhiking across Europe WAY back in the day when that sort of thing was actually encouraged. The Belgian driver spoke loudly and slovenly as he and I (apparently) departed from a night club leaning one against another as the two of us were WAY TOO DRUNK to walk.

And then to my utter surprise (this I do remember) next thing I knew, and against all odds, my Belgian truck driver friend managed and proceeded to insert the key into the ignition and then drive an 18-wheel tractor-trailer (me with it!) right onto the ferry at Calais, given about a 6 inch margin of error on the spiral-shaped ramp!

He parked the truck with surgical precision in the lower deck of the ferry and then (with me tagging along) found a secret room where his lower (and my upper) birth awaited, free of charge, before the ferry commenced crossing the English Channel where, once ashore, (6 hours later) we continued on to London …

… still drunk.

I ask again: Can't they read?

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Anyway, here's one of the successes, both in audio and video. A result not yet reproduced for any of the other performances on the DVD (yet).

This would be track #2 in the collection as indicated (I will add more). The quality is about as good as I think it would have been on the original television studio recordings.


Video details:
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General
Complete name : 02. Beethoven 15 Variations and Fuge Op 35 1960.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 519 MiB
Duration : 18mn 54s
Overall bit rate : 3 837 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf53.6.0

Video
ID : 0
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : H264
Duration : 18mn 54s
Bit rate : 3 500 Kbps
Width : 960 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 50.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.101
Stream size : 474 MiB (91%)
Writing library : x264 core 123 r2189 35cf912
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3500 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.20

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 18mn 54s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 43.3 MiB (8%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 32 ms (1.60 video frames)

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