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Amy Winehouse 2008-07-13 T In The Park + 2008-08-17 V Festival + 2008-09-06 Bestival (all partial recordings)

 

 

 

 

Amy Winehouse
Main Stage
T In The Park Festival
Kinross
U.K.
2008-07-13 (Sunday)

Sourced from BBC1 Scotland, BBC2 Scotland, BBC3 & BBCi broadcasts between 2008-07-13 and 2009-06-05

All sources > DVB-S > Hauppauge Nova-S > DVBviewer > .ts >
VideoRedo Plus > mpv & mpa files > MPEG Video Wizard > DVDLabPro.

Video : PAL 720 x 576 @ 25fps. 4516kB/s
Aspect Ratio : 16:9
no logo
Audio : MPEG1 layer 2 @ 256kbps except * 128kbps

  1. Arrival / intro
  2. Addicted *
  3. Just Friends *
  4. Tears Dry On Their Own
  5. Cupid
  6. Back To Black
     Wake Up Alone (not broadcast)
     Some Unholy War (not broadcast)
  7. Love Is A Losing Game *
     Hey Little Rich Girl (not broadcast)
  8. You're Wondering Now *
  9. You Know I'm No Good
 10. Rehab
    Me And Mr. Jones (not broadcast)
 11. Valerie
Total Time : [35:18]


The following factors (in order of priority) affected the decisions concerning which audio and video sources were used for each segment:

1. Completeness
2. Best video quality (usually, highest bitrate) - ie in order of highest quality to lowest: BBC1 & BBC2 (4.81Mbps), BBC3 (4.16ish), BBCi (3.50 - 3.96)
3. Secondary factor in questions of video quality is the problem of the garish BBC3 logo. Other sources are logo-free.
4. Additional factor for video quality is the presence of on-screen banners - i.e. strobe warnings, upcoming programming, sometimes errors in song titles (all to be avoided). On this occasion, it was possible to choose video content so as to eliminate a strong language warning at the very start of the performance.
5. Best audio quality (usually, highest bitrate) - ie in order of highest quality to lowest: BBC1 & BBC2 & BBC3 (256kbps), BBCi (128)

Under normal circumstances these factors make decision-making reasonably straightforward, but on this occasion there was a major complication:

The "best" quality broadcast of You Know I'm No Good and Rehab should have been the Sunday evening BBC3 broadcast, which was carried simultaneously (at a lower bitrate) on BBCi. Unfortunately the 256k BBC3 audio was very degraded (muffled, essentially) - although the simultaneous 128kbps BBCi audio sounded OK. (Despite which, there was no audio problem with the preceding broadcast of Tears Dry on Their Own). *** The 2009 rebroadcasts eliminate this problem, by providing both video and audio upgrades for the problematic sections ***

Having made the decision to use the 128kbps stream audio, and even though it would have been just as easy to use the 4.16 Mbps BBC3 video, I decided to use the corresponding BBCi video, since it was at an acceptable bitrate (compared to usual BBCi video bitrates) - 3.50Mbps, partly out of a concern that there might also have been video degradation in the BBC3 broadcast. Making this decision (to use logo-free streams for 2 of the 3 BBC3 tracks) made it easier to replace the video (but not audio) of the remaining BBC3-only track with its BBCi equivalent. Therefore ALL video is logo-free (the price paid is a slightly lower video bitrate for those 3 songs - 3.50Mbps versus 4.16 for the BBC3 broadcast), but the best audio is used throughout. *** The 2009 rebroadcasts eliminate this problem, by providing both video and audio upgrades for the problematic sections ***

Songs marked @ have 128kbps audio, otherwise audio is 256kbps.

  1. Arrival (used BBC2 highlights broadcast 2008-08-01. BBC3/BBCi version (broadcast 2008-07-13) was a little shorter, but has one different video angle)
  2. intro @ (BBCi 3.64MBps source (broadcast 2008-07-13) for Zalon's introduction - avoids strong language warning in other sources)
  3. Addicted @ (BBCi higher bitrate 3.96Mbps version (broadcast 2008-07-13))
  4. Just Friends @ (BBCi higher bitrate 3.96Mbps version, with a tiny patch from 3.60Mbps version (both broadcast 2008-07-13), to replace a video flaw (during song title caption) - this patch chosen because the I-frames match exactly in these two sources)
  5. Tears Dry On Their Own (BBC2 broadcast 2009-06-05)
  6. Cupid (BBC2 broadcast 2009-05-29)
  7. Back To Black (first few frames from highest bitrate BBCi stream (broadcast 2008-07-13), then BBC1 version (broadcast 2008-07-13) - audio delayed by 2 frames)
  8. Wake Up Alone (not broadcast)
  9. Some Unholy War (not broadcast)
 10. Love Is A Losing Game @ (only shown on BBCi (broadcast 2008-07-13) - used highest bitrate available)
 11. Hey Little Rich Girl (not broadcast)
 12. You're Wondering Now @ (only shown on BBCi (broadcast 2008-07-13) - used highest bitrate available)
 13. You Know I'm No Good (BBC2 broadcast 2009-06-05)
 14. Rehab (BBC2 broadcast 2009-06-05)
 15. Me And Mr. Jones (not broadcast)
 16. Valerie (BBC2 broadcast 2008-07-18, intro and end from BBC broadcast 2009-06-05)


Complete set from http://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/38110 :
1. Addicted
2. Just Friends
3. Tears Dry On Their Own
4. Cupid
5. Back To Black
6. Wake Up Alone
7. Some Unholy War
8. Love Is A Losing Game
9. Hey Little Rich Girl
10. You're Wondering Now
11. You Know I'm No Good
12. Rehab
13. Me And Mr. Jones
14. Valerie

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Amy Winehouse
V Festival
Chelmsford
U.K.

2008-08-17

http://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/38996

DVB-S capture from Channel 4 broadcasts except * analogue capture from 4 Music.

Channel 4 source:
Channel 4 > DVB-S > Hauppauge Nova-S > DVBviewer > .ts >
VideoRedo > DVDLabPro.

4 Music source:
4 Music Digital Satellite broadcast > Sky+ > Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000 capture card > Virtual VCR > avi > TMPGEnc > mpeg2
Audio resampled in Virtual VCR to ensure a/v sync.

Mpeg editing performed using Womble MPEG Video Wizard;
Audio was converted to LPCM before editing in Womble; the resulting (not re-encoded)
audio file was edited (adjusted volume / normalised some segments) in Adobe Audition 1.5

Format : 544x576 @ 25fps (SATV / PAL)
Video Bitrate: 4883kbps
Audio bitrate : 1536kbps (LPCM)
TV format : PAL
Aspect ratio 16:9

00:00:00:00 01. Just Friends (censored)
00:03:02:13 02. Back To Black
00:07:05:11 03. Love Is A Losing Game * (censored at start)
00:09:42:22 04. Rehab
00:13:24:02 05. Valerie * (censored)
Total Time : [17:43]

Full setlist was:
  1. Addicted
  2. Just Friends
  3. Tears Run Dry On Their Own
  4. Cupid
  5. Back To Black
  6. Wake Up Alone
  7. Love Is A Losing Game
  8. You're Wondering Now
  9. You Know I'm No Good
 10. Rehab
 11. Me And Mr Jones
 12. Valerie

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Amy Winehouse
Main Stage (headline performance)
Bestival
Isle Of Wight
U.K.
2008-09-06 (Saturday)

Channel 4 FTA > DVB-S > Hauppauge Nova-S > DVBviewer > .ts >
VideoRedo Plus > mpv & mpa files > DVDLabPro.

Video : PAL 544 x 576 @ 25fps. 3011kB/s
Aspect Ratio : 16:9
no logo
Audio : MPEG1 layer 2 @ 192kbps

1. Back To Back
Total Time : [4:08]

Back To Black was also broadcast earlier in the day on T4; that broadcast has the following differences:
* T4 logo
* 30 second montage of festival scenes in the middle
* Sometimes scrolling banner with info
* Programme credits at the end
* Cut short (2:42)
* Some different video edits, mainly more close-ups of Amy

All of these differences are essentially downgrades, except the last item,
which makes for a marginally different viewing experience.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbea..ic/newsid_7602000/7602648.stm

Full set list was:
1. Addicted
2. Just Friends
3. Tears Dry On Their Own
4. Cupid
5. Back To Black
6. Wake Up Alone
7. Love Is A Losing Game
8. You Know I'm No Good
9. Me And Mr Jones
10. Valerie / Rehab

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