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whitereflectionIs there anyone *anyone* out there who can help me get a copy of Gravitation 12 on VHS tape? Please? Please? I'll sell you my soul (tho probably corrupt, if it's even there still), my first born child (tho I'm not gonna have kids...would a cat do?), aaaaanything in trade for this.
The story behind it all:
Once upon a time Hawke was a goddesswonderfulawesome person and sent me all the eps of Gravitation on VHS--except for eps 12 and 13. But she also was rockingawesomecool enough to send me burned CDs with everything but ep. 12.
Ahhhh, the elusive episode 12. Many, many of you know of my quest to get this bastard. Kea has so often tried to send me it by online transfer, and we've cried as my firewall interferes over and over again--and I've cried and raged when I can't get my ports changed so the firewall *doesn't* cause a problem. Then Lemming was a sweetwonderfulgoddess too and sent me a CD that had on it Eps 12 and 13. I was THRILLED! And so I finally set up a time where we here could watch it all (that time being today).
But IDIOT ME, I didn't think to *check* those episodes in advance. Just last night, I go to convert them from avi to mov using my Divx converter program so I can play them on QuickTime. Ep 13 converted beautifully. *Beautifully*. In fact, I even peeked at the ending, and I'm more in love with K and Hiro than ever. *sighs* But 12...
12 didn't convert. There's an error in the file. I can't convert it, I can't play it. So, in essence...after *all that*...
I'm still missing ep. 12.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.
I'm really bummed. I've promised this to everyone here, and I can't deliver. I mean, yeah we're going to watch ep1-11, and wait for me to get 12 so we can then watch 13 and the OAV...but how much longer will it be before I get 12? I mean, it's been so long already, and I keep having problems, and I keep fscking up doing it on computer somehow, and I am *SO* going to beat my head on a wall.
It didn't help that Katherine last night brought over a CD a friend of hers from her Japanese class had given her, with an avi of the Saiyuki-Requiem movie on it (yes! Requiem!!). So we convert it, and the conversion *WORKS*, and we try to open it with QuickTime...and get the message "QuickTime cannot open this file due to a bad public movie atom."
????Whatthehell??? I don't know what that means. I need to email QuickTime techsupport and find out. But for the moment it means we can't play the Requeim movie either. ...but we do have an idea fot that, as it seems to be a good-error free avi file. I just have to email someone I think has a computer file to VHS conversion card, and offer them my soul to convert it for me. Katherine's willing to mail the CD out, if we can get copies made like this--and she's more than willing to let other copies be made for fellow Saiyuki lovers out there, too. I gotta do that email...
*flails* So I'm feeling more pissy and stressed, just because this is yet one more thing that's being complicated to work through. I know it's not the worst, and you all out there have far worse to deal with, *real* problems, not petty things like this. I'm just...frustrated, fried. And disappointed, since I've been waiting to finish Gravi for so damned long. Meh.
One good thing, tho...in updating QuickTime and adding extensions, I somehow got my HubbaHubbaZootZoot AMV to work for the *first time ever*!!! I tested it on a whim, and it finally played, perfectly! XD Katherine got to see it, and just died--I shall show Kelly and Anj this afternoon. Eh, so I guess I'm, what, 1-3? Or something.
Oh, and another happy thing--they fixed the phone last night. Qwest didn't bother to tell me what was wrong, but it must have been an outside problem, as they didn't have to get in the house to repair whatever it was.
...*sudden thought* Oh ick...I have to scoop the catboxes again today. XP Legs are really doing better, but this is still going to cause much pain. Egads. *sigh*
At least one good thing to look forward to today--after what Gravi I can show, and Katherine making us watch this two-part ep of Yugioh (the US dub, it will hurt! Pain! *flails*), I am showing them all Spirited Away. Anj still doesn't know. XD I can't wait. *glompshugs Moe once again*a
The story behind it all:
Once upon a time Hawke was a goddesswonderfulawesome person and sent me all the eps of Gravitation on VHS--except for eps 12 and 13. But she also was rockingawesomecool enough to send me burned CDs with everything but ep. 12.
Ahhhh, the elusive episode 12. Many, many of you know of my quest to get this bastard. Kea has so often tried to send me it by online transfer, and we've cried as my firewall interferes over and over again--and I've cried and raged when I can't get my ports changed so the firewall *doesn't* cause a problem. Then Lemming was a sweetwonderfulgoddess too and sent me a CD that had on it Eps 12 and 13. I was THRILLED! And so I finally set up a time where we here could watch it all (that time being today).
But IDIOT ME, I didn't think to *check* those episodes in advance. Just last night, I go to convert them from avi to mov using my Divx converter program so I can play them on QuickTime. Ep 13 converted beautifully. *Beautifully*. In fact, I even peeked at the ending, and I'm more in love with K and Hiro than ever. *sighs* But 12...
12 didn't convert. There's an error in the file. I can't convert it, I can't play it. So, in essence...after *all that*...
I'm still missing ep. 12.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.
I'm really bummed. I've promised this to everyone here, and I can't deliver. I mean, yeah we're going to watch ep1-11, and wait for me to get 12 so we can then watch 13 and the OAV...but how much longer will it be before I get 12? I mean, it's been so long already, and I keep having problems, and I keep fscking up doing it on computer somehow, and I am *SO* going to beat my head on a wall.
It didn't help that Katherine last night brought over a CD a friend of hers from her Japanese class had given her, with an avi of the Saiyuki-Requiem movie on it (yes! Requiem!!). So we convert it, and the conversion *WORKS*, and we try to open it with QuickTime...and get the message "QuickTime cannot open this file due to a bad public movie atom."
????Whatthehell??? I don't know what that means. I need to email QuickTime techsupport and find out. But for the moment it means we can't play the Requeim movie either. ...but we do have an idea fot that, as it seems to be a good-error free avi file. I just have to email someone I think has a computer file to VHS conversion card, and offer them my soul to convert it for me. Katherine's willing to mail the CD out, if we can get copies made like this--and she's more than willing to let other copies be made for fellow Saiyuki lovers out there, too. I gotta do that email...
*flails* So I'm feeling more pissy and stressed, just because this is yet one more thing that's being complicated to work through. I know it's not the worst, and you all out there have far worse to deal with, *real* problems, not petty things like this. I'm just...frustrated, fried. And disappointed, since I've been waiting to finish Gravi for so damned long. Meh.
One good thing, tho...in updating QuickTime and adding extensions, I somehow got my HubbaHubbaZootZoot AMV to work for the *first time ever*!!! I tested it on a whim, and it finally played, perfectly! XD Katherine got to see it, and just died--I shall show Kelly and Anj this afternoon. Eh, so I guess I'm, what, 1-3? Or something.
Oh, and another happy thing--they fixed the phone last night. Qwest didn't bother to tell me what was wrong, but it must have been an outside problem, as they didn't have to get in the house to repair whatever it was.
...*sudden thought* Oh ick...I have to scoop the catboxes again today. XP Legs are really doing better, but this is still going to cause much pain. Egads. *sigh*
At least one good thing to look forward to today--after what Gravi I can show, and Katherine making us watch this two-part ep of Yugioh (the US dub, it will hurt! Pain! *flails*), I am showing them all Spirited Away. Anj still doesn't know. XD I can't wait. *glompshugs Moe once again*a
