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BBC Great Railway Journeys Cuba Guantanamo to Pinar del Rio VHS XviD mp3 avi

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BBC - Great Railway Journeys - Cuba, Guantanamo to Pinar del Rio


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Comedian Nick Hancock tackles a complicated route through Cuba. It is now over 40 years since Castro's revolution and Cuba's infrastructure is crumbling (and trains certainly don't run on time). Despite this, Nick decides to cross the country by rail, only to have his plans disrupted by the arrival of Hurricane George.

Stranded at Guantanamo, Nick acts like a Cuban and improvises. Instead of travelling on a fractured inter-city network, he gets around the island on steam-driven freight trains that normally transport sugar; hitches a lift on the Hershey chocolate train; and tackles a range of other vehicles including stretch Ladas and bicycles powered with lawnmower engines.

Along the way, Nick meets up with boxers, ballet dancers, faded divas, fickle dolphins, cigar rollers and revolutionaries old and new.


Links and Screenshots :
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- TV Factual UK page about this series.


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File Name ........... : BBC.Great.Railway.Journeys.Cuba.Guantanamo.to.Pinar.del.Rio.VHS.XviD.mp3.avi
Total Size (MB) ... : 400.02 MB
Duration .............. : 00:43:56

Video Codec ....... : XviD MPEG-4 codec
Resolution .......... : 344 x 236
Aspect Ratio ....... : 1.45:1
Video Bitrate ...... : 1144 KB/s
Framerate .......... : 29.97 FPS
Quality Factor ..... : 0.470 B/px

Audio Codec ....... : MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
Audio Bitrate ...... : 128 KB/s
Channels ............ : 2 Ch
Sampling Rate .... : 44100 Hz

Ripped by ........... : Unknown TV capper. Transcoded to XviD by l0thar.


Technical Notes :

The original version for this file was a 438MB .mpg file. It was a VHS capture, and had some noise in the picture, etc. Decided to process it thru GordianKnot, and the resulting video is much better - wavering lines at the top of the screen and black borders were lightly trimmed, a light noise filter did a great job. (original resolution was 352x240 pixels)

The Xvid encode is much more enjoyable, and it's a nice program. Enjoy.


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