Remaster of Jibijip the Budgie Chirping

A Digitally Remastered version of the video of my pet budgie Jibijip chirping. Higher resolution, better picture, and 5.1 surround sound.

The audio is also improved - no more eardrum bursting loud chirps, they've all been normalized.

The really quiet chirps are also now audiable. I think you can even hear him talking which I never noticed before. I guess he really did learn to talk but it was very quiet. I think I heard him say pretty birdy in this video a few times, it wasn't clear without the improvement to the sound. Please leave a comment if you think you might of heard Jibijip say something in this video and what you think you heard him say.

Sadly Jibijip died and was buried on Tuesday the 17th of June, 2008. He died of a problem in his digestive tract.

Rest in peace my dear sweet baby Jibijip.
You're flying with the angels now, I hope
to see you in heaven.



Technical details on the new version:

To fix the sound I used mp3doctor and mp3gain. After extracting the sound from the video with Replay Converter. To make it surround sound I used MP3 SX Converter or MP3 Surround Encoder, I can't remember which one.

I used ffmpeg to extract each frame of the video into .PNG pictures, there was 7200 pictures that came out of the video.

Then I used a script I recorded on Corel Paint Shop Pro X2, to "smart resize" an image from 320 x 240 to 1280 x 960 resolution. Then I used the Time Machine thing, to turn it to Early Colour, then I used the Time Machine thing again to turn it to Cross Process, then I ran One Step Noise reduction twice. I saved the script and ran the script in Batch Process on the 7200 frames that were extracted out of the video to png files which took 48 hours, I had to leave the computer on all that time.

Then I made two encodes with mplayer 's mencoder and set the fps to 15 which was the fps of the original video, I used the image sequance of the extracted png files and the extracted and improved mp3 file to make the two encodes.

At first I made a huffyuv lossless video compression codec encode, the results where absolutely stunning, and it was worth leaving the computer on for 48 hours for Paint Shop Pro to edit the frames. But the video's filesize was 8GB, so it was 1GB for every minute of the video. There's no way I could upload that on youtube or any other site, it's way too big and youtube's upload limit is 100MB. And even if they did allow it, it'll be impossible to stream 8GB with the average users internet connection.

So I had no choice but to make a lower quality encode to upload to youtube, I can't remember what codec I encoded it in but it did say "best quality" in mencoder, but it was no where near as good as the quality huffyuv encode, which I used a long command to use which I found somewhere to get the best quality with mencoder. The filesize for that encode was 64MB, which I uploaded to youtube.

I wish there was a way for me to show the 8GB one to people on the internet :(


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• budgies
• budgie
• parakeet
• parakeets
• budgerigar
• budgerigars
• parrot
• parrots
• jibijip
• chirp
• chirps
• chirping
• tweets

[blackrose3226]

that is so cute! :D

[cokyazici]

Thanks.

[rheadhar]

parakeets are the cutest of all!!! soon they will rule the world!!

[Studmuffindk]

yes, he really was cute... Im sorry for your loss... :(

[katty3twilight]

I love parakeets!! I just got some. Any advice?? :]

[TaraNeffi]

and now he just bit me :(

[TaraNeffi]

my budgie is climbing over his cage to this (:

[wonderboy771]

im sorry

[Shanfroman]

I play this video for my parakeet since the female that was with him died recently and it really lights him up. Thank you.

[JeffOnCp]

haha mine too :D

[Crackers1228]

so cute, i'm so sorry

[woodlandsteve]

mine is talking back to him happy as you like

[wancd]

Oh, I miss that sound! I had three budgies: Rudy (blue), Nikki (white), & Burt (green). Rudy lived to be 12, Nikki lived to be 10, and Burt lived to be 8. Nikki was my last to go and she died last summer. Nice video; very calming.