The video wasn’t off YouTube, it was downloaded directly from bmrf.us. Once it was downloaded, i ripped the audio from it and it came out as an mp4 audio file. I used an online audio converter to convert it to an mp3.
Here is the link to the video from the website : https://www.bmrf.us/assets/launch_trailer.mp4
Somebody told me few pages back that ripping from MP4 to MP3 will aggravate the quality (and over here we need the quality).
If you are using Audacity, then look for MP4 plugin so you don’t have to rip it from MP3.
EDIT: The plugging is called FFmpeg plugin, and I believe you can download it here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#ffdown
The blockiness is likely just video compression; for instance, this guy’s shirt is blocky, but there is no hidden message:
Probably another page has taken its place?
Can we please get back on target?
Someone, find a mp4 visualizer. Its the only lead we have, so it’s worth a shot.
EDIT: Am I missing something? Is there a new thread or something?
Nope, no new thread, at least not that I can see. There just hasn’t been any advancements made in the ARG. But it seems like we got a new clue: The Lambda symbol in the page header is colored (presumably to match up with the legalisation of gay marriage in the US), but the colours themselves don’t fit the LGBTQ flag. Perhaps there’s some clue in them.
MP4 is a video format… any player is a “visualizer”. I’m not sure what you’re asking for.
Since the file name is “pride_mesa_forums.png” I’d assume yes, it’s just another celebration of the SCOTUS marriage equality ruling, and has nothing to do with the ARG.
That’s not entirely correct.
MP4 is a media container format, which means you can have an MP4 file that contains only audio, such as this one:
https://www.kxbm.net/article/assets/RGllLi4ueW91IGFsbCBkaWUuLi55b3UgYWxsIGRpZS4uLg==
It looks kind of like the old Apple logo. BM for OS X confirmed?
(still wouldn’t have much to do with the ARG)
Has anyone completed every achievement in the game? Some games can have interesting events after 100% completion.Perhaps anyone who has can note anything interesting after all achievements have been completed. Otherwise, i am playing the waiting game.
I got all the achievements besides Rare Specimen on my first playthrough. I have another run in progress with the hat this time. I haven’t played black mesa in a few weeks but IIRC i’m around surface tension and when I get back to it i’ll see if anything happens when you get all achievements. Not gonna hold my breath though.
Uh, somebody earlier mentioned that there could be some images in the audio and that it would be damaged if the mp4 was changed to an mp3.
Here: an mp4 AUDIO visualizer. That specific enough for you?
You’re both right and both wrong. As pointed out by @flavrans9, MP4, or rather the MP4 file format as defined in MPEG-4 Part 14, although mostly used for video data is a “digital multimedia format” or a container format and can contain audio, video, both, or something different altogether.
I am not sure if there is an mp4 audio visualizer. What I do know is that it should be possible to extract the audio data from the MP4 format and store it in a lossless file format (ensuring no data is lost by conversion), using the same tools or similar to those used to store it as MP3. I believe at least some of the several audio visualizers out there support reading such formats, too.
Although, honestly? I don’t think it matters. MP3, unless exported using horrible settings, should be more than fine for the details you’re looking for in the spectograms.
Ive zoomed in an audacity spectrogram of the end bit. The spectrogram the other poster was using is more accurate, but I tried to get my mine up to par. A Welsh type spectrogram looked to be the most accurate for audacity IMO
What I want to know is those lines up at 16k, maybe i should isolate those and reduce the frequency.
If that’s a spectogram of the release trailer, I’m betting all the money I have (which is a negative value so don’t take me up on that) that it’s the high beeping noise you hear. Which cuts out shortly before very end, also explaining why the line disappears around that point.
That is what i would like to know too. When i first saw that spectrogram, that was the first thing that caught my eye. You can more clearly hear it if you slow it down to at least 50% and its a high pitched beeping sound. It would be worth a shot to isolate it and lower the frequency.
It is a sprectrogram of the release trailer. On the webpage you can download it. If there is nothing of interest in it, the only other idea is to map out the locations of “The Pizza Is A LIE!” graffiti and bio dome logos hidden throughout the game and see if they they form a pattern that could be of some interest.
I think storm mentioned that is everywhere you look, that’s why i am interested in the locations of “The Pizza Is A LIE!” and the bio-dome logos.
https://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Brothers_(episode)
Theres quite a few things on there that could help. Data Authorization code he gives. The biggest bit is the
^ this gives us the clue that we defiantly need a Password to decode the Halos code, and possibily some switching around either correctly or incorrectly within the password to get it right.
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