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Hi everybody! This is my very first time in a Prince.org forum. Well, I tried to watch those videos on Lotus Flow3r.com, but it didn't work. Is it necessary to be a member of the site to watch'em? I tried to do it, but I gave it up when I realized that the first information you must give is your credit card number...

bailaora09 said:

Welcome. Yes, the site is subscription-only. It costs $77 US per year to join, which allows access to embedded videos and the downloads of all tracks from the Lotusflow3r CD set in mp3 and WAV formats.

I suggest reading up on customer satisfaction in the Lotusflow3r site discussion forum on prince.org before joining.

Graycap23 said:

none to speak of. That's where he is still the king.

xlr8r said:

lol. Maybe in the next 10 years. I've got other shows I need to see. I can't (literally) count the number of times I've seen him live. Loved every last one of them too!

Requesting technical help

All other videos play fine but LRC is choppy and on any closeups the video is distorted by squares. Same thing happened when the site first launched.

Thought it was a bandwidth issue, but other folks don't seem to be having the same issue.

squirrelgrease said:

Thank you for the informations!

Bravo Bravo!!!!! my dear Mozart

Njoyed very much Thank U

I would love to b a pillow, just to watch u
play that Guitar baby u can play that





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Brilliant.

Very pleased to watch these.

That is the best version of 'LRC' I have ever heard. And 'When Eye Lay My Hands on U' ... great arrangement.

Renato adds flavour to these and Prince's guitar/vox is spot-on.

Nooo frikken way am I dishing out all that money for a website, i'm not caving in! I downloaded some leaks though and gosh I can't get enough of his take on Little Red Corvette. Beeeaaauuutiful.

I'm so grateful his voice hasn't been altered one bit with age.

I hope Montreux guys release the DVD officially. It´s been 7 years since ONA...

OperatingThetan said:

If you have the opportunity, please listen to LRC live at Coachella.

Absolutely loved the videos. Loved the slowed down version of "LRC" very, sexy, and he also performed "When I Lay My Hands on You", beautifully.
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BartVanHemelen said:

Two (or likely 3) mistakes were made while encoding this video, one of which we can easily correct ourselves.
Background story is that these f4v videos contain 3 tracks, an h.264 video track, an aac audio track and some metadata track that i guess is a proprietary Adobe thing that noone needs.
H.264 tracks have, as metadata, the Picture Aspect Ratio (par; the aspect ratio used in the physical file), and the Display Aspect Ratio (dar; the aspect ratio that should be used for playback).
The 2 new f4v clips have an incorrect par, while the dar is actually correct. This causes these clips to play at an incorrect aspect ratio in any and all players.

To solve this, i used a free tool called MP4Box. It's a command line tool, and i used it with this command to fix the file:

MP4Box.exe -par 1=4:3 LittleRedCorvette.f4v

(the -par means we're setting the Picture Aspect Ratio of the track with TrackId 1 to 4x3. Use MP4Box.exe -info yourfile.f4v to see the seperate tracks and their Ids)

This simply updates the info in the f4v file, and without any kind of recompression you can now play the file in the correct aspect ratio. As a bonus you could now just rename it to LittleRedCorvette.mp4 and it will play in all players that support the mp4 container and h.264.
I haven't tested this with Quicktime based players (Itunes etc) , but I know that Quicktime has/had a non-standard way of interpreting par/dar, so these clips may still play incorrectly. If this is indeed the case, you can use VLC to put the h.264 and aac tracks in a fresh new mp4 container.

In VLC 1.0.1, go to Media => Convert/Save. Click Add and select your f4v file. Click on the Convert/Save button. Enter a destination file. In the profile dropdown, select Video - MPEG-4 + AAC (MP4). Click on the little toolbox button next to it. Go to the Video codec tab and check Keep original video track. Go to the Audio codec tab and check Keep original audio track. Click Save. Click Start.
The process takes about a second and you'll be left with a standard compliant mp4 file with the correct aspect ratio, and it was made without any recompression.
You may loose A/V sync in this step, because in the creation of the new MP4 container, VLC re-interleaved the whole thing... you may have to play with the interleaving setting in the Video codec tab to correct that, but i think there's only a small chance of this problem occurring.

Btw, this last step can be used to extract the AAC file without recompression as well, if that's what you want to do.

HonestMan13 said:

I don't go to Prince concerts to see Cora & Josh. I go to see Prince...so your reply is irrelevent to my comment about their playing being boring as all hell. (Although one could argue they play that way because Prince tells them to.)

xlr8r said:

1. I'm a she, not a he.

2. If you think my comment is "hating" you misunderstand the definition of the word and my relation to it.

3. I never explicitly said Dayclear was one of those who let Prince "off the hook".

Does anyone on this forum have the reading comprehension skills of an adult or do people just respond to what they imagine they read?

I just saw the video for the first time tonight and I must say, that was AWESOME! Prince is just ELECTRIC on that stage and those 2 performances on lotusflow3r.com was sheer proof of that. I fucking love Prince!!!!!

HonestMan13 said:

Couldn't have said it any better myself.

SLOWDOWN!!!

brilliant cant wait to see prince again =S