also at 6:12 in the “Hot Night” video is that Miguel A. Nunez Jr.? If it is he’s very young in that particular scene.

Great video’s guys awesome work!

In the year and a half since I downloaded the videos from iFilm/Spike, they updated the copies there. They are now have the exact same copies as on MTV.com:

Video: FLV4 320×240.
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 96Kbps.

What makes the iFilms/Spike copies better is that (1) they have the Ghostbusters music video there, and (2) they can be easily downlaoded in your browser using the links I currently have on my site (in the “Music” section for each film is a page for each song, on which you can find the links). Of course, once I put the new copies on my site, you can download them from there as well. (NOTE: If you use Replay Media Catcher to get the videos, you’ll end up getting the old 240×192 copies, which have the suffix “_240.flv”. If you use the “download” links on my site, you’ll get the new 320×240 files, which have the suffix “_320.flv”.)

I am right now updating my site with the new copies of the videos and will also put up a “Site Update” blog post when I’m done.

Now if only I can find a way to remove DRM from the old files I downloaded from MTV.com a year and a half ago, I’d be a happy camper. (Yes I know there are a few progs out there, but they all require me to have a valid license for the files, which I don’t have.)

(PS: Sorry Chris for all of these comment posts. I didn’t realize how much work I put into all of this.)

For the record, these new videos on MTV.com are better than the old ones I have on my site, but not by very much.

OLD FROM IFILM/SPIKE
Video: FLV4 240×192.
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 64Kbps.

NEW FROM MTV.COM
Video: FLV4 320×240.
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 96Kbps.

(NOTE: The files originally on MTV.com a year or so ago were DRM-crippled Windows Media files. I have those downloaded, but can’t do anything with them due to the DRM. Looking at the file size of those files, they appear to be of far greater quality than these new ones.)

I didn’t write this up to toot my own horn or anything, because on my site I fully credit all of the sources where I got the videos from (as I tried to do in my history summary above). I wrote this up just so everyone knows what’s been found and that it’s been found a while ago. Now if anyone finds a music video NOT on the list above, by all means let everyone know

GHOSTBUSTERS
* “Ghostbusters” — Ray Parker Jr.
* “Cleanin’ Up The Town” — The Bus Boys
* “Hot Night” — Laura Branigan
* “Magic” — Mick Smiley
* “Disco Inferno” — The Trammps (2 versions)

After that, someone (and I’m sorry I forgot whom) informed me of several videos on MTV.com (Bus Boys, Smiley, Parker, and Trammps). I never got around to putting up to the MTV.com links (or VH1.com or CMT.com – they all share the same resources), but I did download the videos, which are unfortunately crippled with DRM. (I’ll put up ther MTV.com links up eventually, but since I’m hosting the videos on my site, there’s no need or great rush. Also, it appears the Parker video in no longer on MTV.com, though there is a page for it.)

Luckily, MTV also put them up in their iFilm (now Spike) account, and those videos are DRM-free, although they’re less than 320×240 in image size. Still, they were (and still are) the best and most complete copies available, so I downloaded them and put them up on my site on June 25, 2007 (my birthday, so it’s hard to forget that date), along with links to the originals on iFilm.

In addition to those four music videos, I found three more on YouTube (Branigan, Trammps version 2, and Wilson), which I downloaded an uploaded to my site – along with a copy of the Brown video I got from somewhere and the Run-DMC video that’s on the fan-made DVD going around (of which I helped created a “2006 Special Edition” that is of better quality and contains more stuff).

The “recently discovered” copy of the Bus Boys video on YouTube is the copy I’m hosting on my site, which I got from MTV’s iFilms account, as it is the exact same image size, which is less than the standard 320×240.

*Cheers.