All Mine To Give Dvd

What All Mine To Give Actually Is

It's the Foo Fighters' live DVD and double album, recorded at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco during their 2005 tour. It captures that specific run of shows where they were riding high off In Your Honor. The DVD portion runs about 70 minutes of straight concert footage with minimal extra content. The real value is really in the audio double album if you're after sound quality.

I picked this up back when it first came out and played it maybe twice before it sat on my shelf for years. Then last year I pulled it out again because I was looking for a reference disc to calibrate my surround setup, and it turned out to be genuinely useful for that. You won't find this at your local big box store anymore. It went out of print a while back. Your options are secondhand marketplaces like Discogs, eBay, Amazon Marketplace sellers, or local record shops that still carryDVD stock. Prices fluctuate. A used copy in decent shape usually runs anywhere from fifteen to forty dollars depending on condition and whether it includes the original booklet. I've seen complete-with-insert copies go for under ten at thrift stores occasionally, but that's rare. If you see one listed for under five dollars and it claims to be brand new, that's probably a Region 1 DVD-R bootleg. They look real until you pop them in. The concert footage covers about setlength. Tracklisting includes Monkey Wrench, Times Like These, Best of You, The Pretender, Freedom, Something from Nothing, I'll Follow You Into the Dark, and a few others from that era. Dave Grohl does his usual minimum banter between songs. The cinematography is competent standard rock concert fare, nothing artistic about it.

The audio mix on the DVD is a 5.1 surround mix that actually holds up reasonably well. I ran it through my receiver and the separation between drums and bass is cleaner than most live DVDs from that period. The Dolby Digital track is 448kbps which is adequate. The PCM stereo track is also present if you just want straight two-channel output. There is one thing most people miss. The DVD has two audio tracks. One is the standard Dolby Digital mix and the other is a DTS 5.1 track. If your receiver supports DTS you need to manually switch audio input or the DTS track will play as silence on some older receivers. I learned this the hard way during my first viewing and assumed the disc was faulty. It wasn't. Check your receiver's audio format display and make sure it's decoding DTS when you play it back.

Picture Quality Reality Check

This is a 2005 DVD in an era when the industry was already moving toward HD. Don't expect anything close to Blu-ray quality. The picture is fine for what it is. Colors are a bit warm and the blacks aren't particularly deep, which is standard for DVD masters from that period. If you're watching on a modern 4K TV the upscaling will smooth things out considerably, though you'll notice some softness in the detail compared to a proper remaster. The supplemental material is sparse. There's a photo gallery and maybe a minute or two of behind-the-scenes footage. That's basically it. If you're expecting documentary content or multiple camera angles you'll be disappointed. It's a concert film released at a time when extra features were starting to get cut from DVDs to keep costs down.

Bootleg Warning

This is worth emphasizing because I've seen it come up repeatedly. There are numerous pirate copies of All Mine To Give floating around online. The telltale signs are filenames like "Foo.Fighters.All.Mine.To.Give.DVDRip.XviD" or anything labeled as a download rather than a physical disc purchase. These recordings are typically filmed from a live stream or sourced from a compromised press. Audio is usually compressed MP3 quality and the video is shaky handheld footage with zoom issues. If you want to watch this properly the disc is the way to go. I found a copy on Discogs in "like new" condition for about eighteen dollars and it plays perfectly. No skipping, no audio sync issues. A good secondhand source is worth the slight premium over hunting down a questionable file.

Is It Worth It

If you're a Foo Fighters fan it's a reasonable addition to the collection. The concert itself is solid, the band was tight during that tour, and the audio quality of the best copies is serviceable. If you're not a fan this probably isn't going to convert you. Josh Homme's guest appearance on I'm So High is the main highlight for non-fans, and it shows up here too. The main downside is availability. Physical copies are getting harder to find and prices on the secondary market will likely continue to climb. Streaming platforms do not carry this release. You can't just pull it up on any service. That means if you care about owning it you need to buy the disc now rather than hoping it appears somewhere later.