U2 - Live 8, Hyde Park, London

U2
2 July 2005
Live 8 London Hyde Park, London UK
DVD Format: 16:9 PAL with MPEG Audio
Running Time: 21m 42s
Total Size: 715MB
Date of Torrent: 5 July 2005
Source: Live TV broadcast on BBC Two England, 2 July 2005
Lineage: DVB Digital Satellite TV -> PC DVB Card -> HD (MPEG-2 TS)
Video: 720x576i 16:9 PAL MPEG-2, 4.2Mbps avg, 7.4Mbps peak (original broadcast bitstream)
Audio: 256kbps/48KHz MPEG-1, Layer II (original broadcast bitstream)

SETLIST: 01 - [Pre-show TV interview] 02 - Beautiful Day 03 - Vertigo 04 - Bono's Speech 05 - One 06 - Unchained Melody

NOTES: As I am sure everbody in the world knows, U2 and Paul McCartney opened the Live 8 concert in London with a performance of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This was immediately released for sale via iTunes, and is therefore NOT included on this DVD.
Apart from that, this is the full uncut U2 performance. BBC presenter Jo Whiley interviewed all four members of the band live on BBC TV about 50 minutes before the band went on stage.
This is included as the first chapter on the DVD.

This recording consists of the original MPEG data as broadcast by the BBC. Neither the video or the audio have been recompressed - the broadcast bitstream was simply "saved" to hard disk using a PC DVB card, cut and then used to author the DVD. The recording is confirmed to be 100% error-free - i.e. no dropped frames.
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE USED: Hauppauge "Nova-S" PCI DVB Card Linux DVB drivers/dvbstream to capture original DVB transport stream Project X to cut and demux the original transport stream mplex (from mjpegtools) to remultiplex elementary streams The Gimp and Perl/Image::Magick to author the menus "dvdauthor" to create DVD VIDEO_TS structure.

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