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Author Topic: Can You Watch DCP's? Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-03-2012 08:08 PM                     I've been wondering if any of the systems allow you to actually WATCH a portion of the DCP's you have just ingested into your library server? I want to see trailers, etc. on the monitor. I dont like building shows blind like this, and I feel like the big projector is a tad expensive to use as a viewer. What do you think?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-03-2012 10:02 PM                     Didn't you have to fire up the projector to test out 35mm shows too? It's really not all THAT different. The money you save on using the projector will be spent buying a monitor. Such a monitor would not come cheap.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 09-04-2012 03:08 AM                     No way. I don't know how the Cinelink encryption is applied within a mixed playlist of blacks, trailers, main features, etc. Theoretically it could be possible to add an HD-SDI display or converter to a server-projector link, and maybe that could at least display the unencrypted parts of a playlist without powering on the lamp. But even if, that path would no longer be there with an IMB. Of course it would be very handy if one could at least see a stampsize preview of your SPL on the monitor. If think DCI does not even forbid this actively. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Kris Verhanneman Expert Film Handler Posts: 182 From: Belgium Registered: Dec 2009 posted 09-04-2012 03:11 AM                     You can watch uncoded DCP with this link (not for free) but I find it easyer to create a show with all the new clips and enjoy the show.  |  IP: Logged Pietro Clarici Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Foligno (PG) Italy Registered: Sep 2008 posted 09-04-2012 07:48 AM                        Stereoscopic Player works decently too, and it's much cheaper. Full-res payback requires at least a quad-core i5 CPU.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-04-2012 09:23 AM                     quote: Manny Knowles Didn't you have to fire up the projector to test out 35mm shows too? Sure thing, Manny. With digital, I see absolutely nothing but a load of letters and numbers. I hate it.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-04-2012 01:51 PM                     Depending on your implementation you could play them out with FFMPEG or MPLAYER on a Linux system. I've done this a few times. However you would need to make a script (I did it in Perl at one point or another) to parse out the CPL so you can match up the audio and video tracks. For trailers it's pretty straight forward.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-04-2012 05:48 PM                     BTW, with film you can look at it as you are building it up. At least you will have an idea of what is there.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-04-2012 09:20 PM                     Really? I did not know that. With film, you still gotta project it to really test it out -- if you're doing it right -- that's my point.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-15-2012 11:57 AM                     Thanks for the replies. I'm just wanting to look at trailers that I might need to add to a trailer pak to replace something that is opening. Sometimes, just using a PG trailer just doesent cut it. It's like flying blind around here, and I dont like it.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-15-2012 12:02 PM                     Another DCP player: http://www.digitall.net.au/products/dcpplayer.html It too isn't free but there is a demo version.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2012 09:36 PM                        I think that it should be possible to watch a non-encrypted DCP on the server monitor. I like to pre-view trailers before showing them to audiences (to check if they're audience-appropriate, and also to weed out any chain-specific crap that might have sneaked in), and sometimes I need to remind myself what some of the "cell phone warnings" or "preview of coming attraction" snipes look like. It'd be nice to be able to see these without having to go to a computer or turn on the projector.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 09-15-2012 09:42 PM                     C'mon Mike, what are you thinking? You're expecting the server makers to implement something that is useful, common sense, would make theatre operators' jobs easier, and should require minimal software changes....get real. Never gonna happen.  |  IP: Logged Yinghong Wu Film Handler Posts: 32 From: Suzhou Jiangsu China Registered: Apr 2012 posted 09-16-2012 09:56 PM                     I use Stereoscopic Player 1.81 to show DCP,It is pretty good.^-^  |  IP: Logged

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