October 29th, 2007 
bbcentral I think I may be onto something big here!
I recently came across the website http://www.ilovewillies.com
This site is owned by FremantleMedia and contains some great tips for the Easter Eggs.
I have now managed to extract some very useful information from the file in Episode 1. It is a JPEG containing EXIF data, with some Geolocation coordinates:
File: - G:\Copy of test.jpgImageDescription - OL]MPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Make - OLYIPUS L€TåCAL CO.,LTD Model - Þ OL]MP Orientation - XResolution - 144 YResolution - 144 ResolutionUnit - Inch Software - 42-0120 DateTime - 2007:05:04 23:15:35 YCbCrPositioning - Co-Sited ExifOffset - 296 ExposureTime - 1/30 seconds FNumber - 2.00 ExposureProgram - Normal program ISOSpeedRatings - 80 ExifVersion - 0210 DateTimeOriginal - 2007:05:04 23:15:35 DateTimeDigitized - 2007Ò0%:0 23:1:3 ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr ExposureBiasValue - 0.00 MaxApertureValue - F 2.04 MeteringMode - Multi-segment Flash - Fired FocalLength - 10.00 mm UserComment - You'vu found an Easter Egg! FlashPixVersion - 0100 ColorSpace - Uncalibrated ExifImageWidth - 1024 ExifImageHeight - 768 InteroperabilityOffset - 670 FileSource - DSC - Digital still camera GPS information: - GPSLatitudeRef - N GPSLatitude - 51 32 56 GPSLongitudeRef - W GPSLongitude - 0 32 4
Now what are these coordinates?
51 32 56 N 0 32 4 W
Well it just happens to be:
Pinewood Studios!!!
The comment in the file is “You Found an Easter Egg”
I am still working on decrypting the rest of the JPEG, it’s slow but I’m getting there.
Update: October 31st
I now know that the JPEG is a photo of Maurice Moss standing in the doorway of the basement holding something…
I have another 20 or so lines to decipher before I can unscramble what he is holding in his hand, although I do have a suspicion I already know what it is!
Update: November 9th
I have better things to do than try to finish decoding these subtitles, I seriously can’t be bothered anymore, and finally there are other people out there who have begun working on the project.
Here’s the photo I decoded so far: Maurice Moss
It’s Moss, and he seems to be holding 2 Easter Eggs.
Update: November 9th (again)
Yes I know the photo is blurry and pixelated. I only decoded part of it, hence why I said “here’s the photo I decoded so far”. The photo is only partially decoded, and I don’t have a more clear version for you. The photo, when you click the link, is pixelated, and I don’t have a finished copy of it for you. Please don’t ask me for a more clear version, because I only partially decoded the image above and that’s the most I’m going to be doing on it. It’s enough so that you can see what it is.
To recap: That’s the image, yes it’s blurry, no I can’t fix it.
Thankyou.
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Hi. Can I see the descrambled photo, please? I found the ILW site a while ago, but it (at least to me) appeared to link to some totally unrelated Wikipedia pages. I’m glad someone worked out that they are actually useful. I wonder what Moss is holding…
I will gladly help out with transcribing the subtitles, but SubRip (even with the tolerance setting relaxed to overcome the unfortunate anti-aliasing around the text) kept mistaking 0 and D and other errors like that… VERY annoying, and it meant that the Base64 files were useless… Anyway, any help you can give would be most appreciated, and I’ll gladly share back anything I manage to solve.
Sarah xx
(yes, a girl on the internet! Geek, too!)
Ok, with the help of linux I got the picture. Use the follwing script:
#!/bin/bash
MNTPOINT=”/mnt/cdrom”
#echo “mounting DVD, give root passwd”
#sudo mount /dev/dvd $MNTPOINT
lsdvd
echo “Please type in the stream number”
read DVDSTREAM;
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd dvd://$DVDSTREAM -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -v 2>&1 | grep sid
# ask the user for sid…
# the correct number is 0×20 + sid
echo “Please type in the subtitle SID, type in hexadecimal and add 0×20. Example: for sid 0, type 0×20″
read SID;
tccat -i /dev/dvd -T $DVDSTREAM -L | tcextract -x ps1 -t vob -a $SID > subs
subtitle2pgm -o subtitels-$DVDSTREAM- -c 0,255,255,255 base64-$DVDSTREAM.txt
uudeview base64-$DVDSTREAM.txt
You will have to teach the gocr database. Took my computer some hours to decode.
Too bad that only works for Linux…
By the way the image link is broken…
I now started my own blog about extracting the subtitles. Detailed instructions at: http://theitcrowd.wordpress.com
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