looking for a particular old scifi movie

rnturn · 12-17-2024, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skaperen

in this movie there was a lab that seemed to be trying to view the past or alternate locations on a large screen they had. i recall the screen being on or part of a wall. one time a lot of things like fire or explosions or sparks happened and the screen settled on a scene that got the attention of the scientists in the lab. they went up to the screen and discovered they could step through it. the movie scene then showed a view from the other side with a "screen" floating in the air with the lab visible through it and people coming through. then the "screen" just disappeared with the scientists having no way back to the lab.

I think it was "Deja Vu" with Denzel Washington.

Skaperen · 12-18-2024, 12:00 AM

i it definitely "The Time Travelers". and the longer review suggests to me that i remember more of it but didn't connect them as the same movie in mind. but, it is that movies for sure.

business_kid · 12-18-2024, 09:46 AM

I did try, but

The Time Travellers has vanished, except perhaps from archive.org.
1964 is way too early for Denzel Washington, who would have been 9 or 10.
The youtube link has some dweeb with headphones talking to drag out 5 mins of video clips for 55 mins. Some of them seem to be from Dr. Who, a low budget sci-fi British tv series about a time traveller.

teckk · 12-18-2024, 10:50 PM

The Time Travelers 1964

I can see that sitting on a cloud server.

Code:

...
Select an option:  4
Enter/Paste Utube URL:  https://plhq-m3u8-play-171024.playm4u.xyz/m3u8/tp1-tsv1/5e8dd16b70eac4137a676553/6347c200d9456b020a03ae86/53616c7465645f5f672cef708f6f4b04129893cf0950e3b44e8bcd665fcc9365/1734590435/c429a9af95ffd1b43c4334ffb3ef82fa
[generic] Extracting URL: https://plhq-m3u8-play-171024.playm4u.xyz/m3u8/tp1-tsv1/5e8dd16b70eac4137a676553/6347c200d9456b02...d1b43c4334ffb3ef82fa
[generic] c429a9af95ffd1b43c4334ffb3ef82fa: Downloading webpage
[generic] c429a9af95ffd1b43c4334ffb3ef82fa: Downloading m3u8 information
[generic] c429a9af95ffd1b43c4334ffb3ef82fa: Checking m3u8 live status
[info] Available formats for c429a9af95ffd1b43c4334ffb3ef82fa:
ID EXT RESOLUTION │ PROTO │ VCODEC  ACODEC
───────────────────────────────────────────
0  mp4 unknown    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown

I'll play the first few seconds. Looks like this:
https://0x0.st/XCQO.png

If you want an updated link, You'll need to be around LQ for it.

Skaperen · 12-19-2024, 01:44 AM

@teckk i don't understand what you are doing.

teckk · 12-19-2024, 07:50 AM

If you want the video, say what time you are going to be checking this thread. And I will post a command string for you to download it.

business_kid · 12-21-2024, 02:24 PM

Teckk can 'scrape' a site and get the current url for your useless video. Which url is regularly changed to prevent others going around whatever paywall they have set up and using the site for free. The site owners presumably have coughed up something for the movies themselves.

Skaperen · 12-26-2024, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

If you want the video, say what time you are going to be checking this thread. And I will post a command string for you to download it.

i'm guessing you don't want to make that command string public. does LQ have a private message feature? if not, how about email to phil.d.howard@gmail.com (note: google gets to see the command string contents, so you might want to obscure it from any automated scans).

Skaperen · 12-26-2024, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Teckk can 'scrape' a site and get the current url for your useless video. Which url is regularly changed to prevent others going around whatever paywall they have set up and using the site for free. The site owners presumably have coughed up something for the movies themselves.

i was designing a site somewhat like that but used sha256 of a tuple (secret phrase, client IP, time in nanoseconds) in the URL. that sha256 and the client IP was saved in a big map that also stored the real internal location. when the map entry was used, it was also deleted. the client IP was also part of the lookup index so other clients would never match. time was also save in the mapping entry and nightly process would scan and delete entries over 50 hours old. there were other features like blocking clients that make too many requests. such a site would have defeated this kind of download. the code giving out a URL would have to get the MAP URL created and inserted and give that out for regular access to work.

business_kid · 12-27-2024, 07:13 AM

If you have multiple boxen serving the videos, it's a good way of doing it.
You would need to find some site offering that awful video (I watched it, remember?)on some site with clearly misplaced priorities, and teckk can scrape that site, rather than the web. I can tell you there is neither a torrent, nor the memory of one online.

teckk · 12-27-2024, 03:40 PM

Point was, the link is time sensitive. You'll have to jump on it before it expires.

Code:

url="https://plhq-m3u8-play-171024.playm4u.xyz/m3u8/tp1-tsv1/\
5e8dd16b70eac4137a676553/6347c200d9456b020a03ae86/53616c7465645f5f7\
67a44f00dbe597a53e862656cca461902f2c439b19c7bb5/1735342486/2d96acfe\
753607a5e06bd8d01b3b23c1"

yt-dlp -F "$url"
[generic] Extracting URL: https://plhq-m3u8-play-171024.playm4u.xyz/m3u8/tp1-tsv1/5e8dd16b70eac4137a676553/6347c200d9456b02...07a5e06bd8d01b3b23c1
[generic] 2d96acfe753607a5e06bd8d01b3b23c1: Downloading webpage
[generic] 2d96acfe753607a5e06bd8d01b3b23c1: Downloading m3u8 information
[generic] 2d96acfe753607a5e06bd8d01b3b23c1: Checking m3u8 live status
[info] Available formats for 2d96acfe753607a5e06bd8d01b3b23c1:
ID EXT RESOLUTION │ PROTO │ VCODEC  ACODEC
───────────────────────────────────────────
0  mp4 unknown    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown

yt-dlp -f 0 "$url" -o TimeTrav1964.mp4

Skaperen · 12-28-2024, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

Point was, the link is time sensitive. You'll have to jump on it before it expires.

gotcha! if it expires in 12 hours, we'd have to sequence our online times like that. but i usually don't know my online times due to other stuff. for instance, i spent the past 6 hours tweaking a big old script i hadn't seen in years (that manages my ssh authentication keys). often i'm on here earlier for an hour or so. it varies, but i usually am on here most days.