im learning things about audio tracks I never knew trying to clean up the audio on that one video still I think I know what they say final just trying to make it cleaner for you all
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I never felt like Emily was a part of this thing. Now I wonder if the community suspicions led them to have contacted and recruited her into the game and then taken a video of her and applied it as a red herring? After that, a few bucks to have her not post anything new and we are none the wiser.
SM could easily be laughing his butt off at all of us right now for investing so much in a dead end.
I’ve always believed this forum was here for us to gather and discuss. Just didn’t see anything about Emily to make me think she was initially a part of the game. If you search me on Facebook or other social media, you will find less than you found of her. However she is of millennial age so I guess it’s far more likely that she would have those accounts.
I’m not so cynical to think that anyone would spend perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bunch of red herrings. It seems that all kinds of things have meaning in this mess. Supposedly, a bunch of people were sure that this had nothing to do with Hello Games at all, so I’d suggest that skepticism be more practical about this.
Quick edit: I’m home sick from work, but I have to go “out there” even though I don’t feel like it, meh. The joys of living alone. I don’t mean to sound crass.
Let’s try to stay focused on the analysis of the video here, please.
Again, if anyone knows someone in the deaf / lip-reading community who can take a look at this video, it would really help to have that expertise.
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There is a deaf community on reddit but they do not allow lip reading request as, “Your guess is as good as ours as to what they’re saying.”
There is a lip reading program developed by University of Oxford called LipNet. Anyone more tech savvy than me might put it to use from the Github page? (scroll down to “Usage” for instructions)
I also remember a story in the news a while back where they hired a lipreader to find out what someone was saying. There are lip reading professionals out there for hire. Maybe we could try to ask nicely, who knows.
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Just in case, I’ve re-done this little exercise for myself, but seem to get a slightly different string (after a ROT-n):
LL CHEM ID SI ODC MCHNE HG JCVEKEWOIE
(The error is quite possibly on my side).
The problem with this is that we end up seeing things because we want to see something. For instance I couldn’t help seeing the word “machine” in “mchne” (machine learning or chemistry machine?) moreover followed by a “Hg” (mercury).
I feel there is something to do with those holes in the spectral analysis, but maybe not quite that.
(I don’t mind if Sean’s laughing his ass off or not right now, I’m still having fun with it, even if there’s nothing at the end of the tunnel (or no end to the tunnel at all!))
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As Stephen Hawkings once said…It is not the destination but the journey…if we had all the answers there would be no more questions to ask…where would the fun be in that?
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It’s entirely possible I miscounted. My cat was trying to play with me at the time.
Exactly! I said in another post that the least of my concerns was to reach the center. That’s because I’m not a finisher, but I am an explorer and this is why I always loved NMS, whatever other people said,
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And could that be a reference to the Jabberwocky?? Man, that screams anagram!
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
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Update: I’ve been staying low, today. So, I’m trying to catch up with everything since yesterday evening. Oh my word! You all have been busy. This is amazing effort-- wow! Can I just say that we all appreciate this. For me, it’s pretty cool to watch unfold. I mean even if we come to a dead end, at least we’re trying, right?
Okay, in regards to the lip reading idea for the video, I do have someone that I have reached out to. I haven’t gotten a response back. However, I’m just too curious to give up. If anything develops from it, I’ll definitely post about it.
So, the RTTY approach, last evening we downloaded two software programs. The first, was Fldigi which ended up basically useless because one would need a transceiver. The second, was DX Atlas, that @FRANK_CADILLAC suggested. Sadly, this too did not pan out because it would not allow for input of audio files 
The only other efforts that I can think to do is to reach out to a local Amateur Radio Club. In my mind there is still something to this.
Any who, other then that… I got nothing. Sorry, All.
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My son was able to load the mp3 from the vid and put it on his phone then ran it into the headphone jack on my pc via cable and then run it thru the program we had. But they are fairly complex programs with a steep learning curve unless you have some knowledge. Everyone here has really worked hard on this and I think we all agree there is something…we just can’t pin it down.
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I am on my third restart of NMS, I have yet to reach the center…I too am in no big hurry.
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Sorry, been following this thread, may something raise up. But may I ask what’s for all of this complicate chain ? Like what’s final goal you trying to do ? Cause I’m not sure, but if you trying to extract the audio, may I help you ? You don’t need to do all of this. It’s really simple once you know the right tool 
It may sound complicated at first but it’s because it’s a powerfull tool to integrate into other software. It’s in command line and once you know it’s really not that bad.
- Download FFMPEG : http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win64/static/ffmpeg-3.3.2-win64-static.zip
- Extract.
- Go to the extracted_folder/bin
- Open a command invite. Easiest way: Unselect all (clicking anywhere blank), Hold Shift, right click, “Open cmd here”.
- type the following cmd:
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 2 audio.wav
Replace “video.mkv” by the name and extension of the video, and this command will work only if the video is in the same folder, so either you place the video there, or you give the absolute path of the video. (Easiest way: Hold shift, right click on the video, “copy as path”. Then in the cmd windows, right click to paste.)
pcm_s16le tell to convert the file into a wav (which I highly recommend cause it’s cleaner, even you can use pcm_s24le). -ac 2, to have the stereo file. And the file will be name X.wav (in this command “audio.wav”).
If you whichever reason you absolutely want a mp3 file, then use this command:
ffmpeg -i sample.avi -q:a 0 -map a sample.mp3
(again type the right name of the video by replacing the sample.avi).
If it’s not what you wanted… well here the procedure to extract audio anyway. If you want to manipulate video/audio to do simple thing, (conversion, editing, extracting, replacing…) ffmpeg is a powerfull tool that is almost limited only by… your cmd line skill XD… and your Google search skill. Just type in 'ffmpeg do this thing", and you’ll find that some people before you had answered this.
Hey wasn’t expecting to write this long… haha cheers !
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binary from the glitched audio in baudot format, I expect there’s a cypher (vignere?) we need to decode, if this is not a red herring… feel free to convert to binary audio and then try a signal decoder, being binary, it should be a lot cleaner than the original audio.
00101 11101 11011 01111 01110 11101 11101 11100 11110 11101 01111 01110 11011 01101 10110 01011 01101 10111 01101 01101 10110 11001 10011 11011 01110 10110 11101 11011 10110 11111 11011 01110 11011 01111 01010 11101 11100 10111 01110 11110 11011 10101 10011 01011 11011 11011 01100 11010 11101 11011 01110 11101 11011 10111 01101 01101 10110 10111 10111 01011 11011 10111 01101 10101 10110 01111 01100 11101 10110 11011 01101 01101 01101 10110 11101 01011 01101 10101 01101 11011 00111 10110 11001 11001 10111 01101 11011 01011 10110 10111 01111 10101 10110 11101 11011 01011 01110 11110 11011 11011 01111 10110 01101 01111 11101 11110 10110 11011 01111 11011 01101 01101 10111 01101 01101 01101 10110 11001 10101 10101 10110 11011 10110 10110 10110 11101 10110 10110 01101 10101 10110 11010 10110 11101 10110 11011 01011 01001 10110 11011 01101 01001 11101 01110 11101 01111 01110 10111 10111 01110 11101 11011 01011 11011 10101 10111 01101 10110 01101 10111 01101 11110 11101 10111 10111 01101 11100 11011 01110 11011 01101 10111 01011 10110 10101 00111 10111 01101 11101 11011 01110 10110 11010 11101 11011 10101 11111 11011 10111 01101 01110 11011 10111 01101 10110 11011 11011 01110 11100 11011 10111 01011 10101 11101 10011 01111 01101 11011 10101 11101 10011 11011 10101 11011 11011 11110 11101 10111 10111 01001 01110 11011 10111 11011 11101 10110 11101 11011 11101 10111 10110 11101 11011 00111 10111 01101 11101 01110 11101 11011 10111 01101 11011 01110 11010 10101 10111 01110 10110 11011 01101 11011 01110 11101 11011 01011 01011 10111 11111
10110 11101 10101 01011 00111 01110 10011 11011 10111 01111 01110 11101 10111 01110 11110 10110 11100 11100 10101 11011 01111
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50/50 Chem ID if Document Machine Mercury Jabberwocky!!
I’m going to bed, now…
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wrong decoding method, try baudot. looking for a murray code converter now.
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Thank you for the info. I think we are stuck and don’t know what to do next. If you think the audio in the Emily appearance in the Live drop video may contain something, please check it out and share what you find.
I installed Audacity and started from scratch with an actual wav file rather than a jpg/png.
Bearing in mind that it is dependent on the video I choose, I actually get that series:
10 14 30 9 0 5 2 10 6 1 16 1 16 6 12 1 0 10 0 5 11 2 5 4 7 0 19 2 8 2 20 12 6 0 3
Those are the number of short silences between long silences.
Add 1 to get the number of noise blocks, or include the long silence in the value.
I do realize there is a 30…