Thanks to Harmy and everyone who helped with this project! The wait was worth it and your hard work (and generosity) are much appreciated.

Harmy said:

I'm sorry, just testing another browser. It seems I may have to use this crap for a few days, so I might as well make it more comfortable for myself.

I mean this in the best possible way, but I love how shitty the shot looks with Obi-Wan straddling the tractor beam. :)

(Because it looked shitty in '77, I mean.)

Harmy made love to our childhood.

Harmy said:

 

CRC32: 67873A69

MD5: 4C1CB21D08E2FDDC1F43B3B342645933

SHA-1: 75539451B092ABBDF90D0CA546FEB48C46F09810

 

FYI: Usenet rars extracted fine with no help from par2s and the mkv SHA-1 verified correct for me.  Thanks to the uploader, and extra special thanks to Harmy!

Thanks Harmy, you made an excellent job, congratulations.

I have checked the french audio and the sync is good.

I will now use your release to make the "french preservation" : http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/forum.cfm/Star-Wars-Preservations-and-Other-Fan-Projects/forum/17/page/5/

Spanish Dub is now on Usenet as well.

As with v. 1.0, a huge thanks to you Harmy for this gem, and a great respect for the amount of work you put into this project.

Do MKVs support multi-angle video tracks? I suppose it would be fairly easy to realize something like that in a container format like MKV... that way you could include multiple crawls and Greedo subs, at least in the MKV.

For the Blu-ray (and DVD, respectively) this is probably much more difficult, as I haven't seen a single fanmade disc that contained multi-angle. I'm only familiar with Adobe Encore for authoring discs and it STILL doesn't support multi-angle.

^Yeah, or alternate opening crawls, both for the '81 version and alternate languages. 

(Y'know, I wouldn't mind alternate angles for ESB and ROTJ that simply remove the "Episode X: Strike X of the Xers" marker in order to remove implication of the prequels from the OT.)

Laserschwert said:

Do MKVs support multi-angle video tracks? I suppose it would be fairly easy to realize something like that in a container format like MKV... that way you could include multiple crawls and Greedo subs, at least in the MKV.

For the Blu-ray (and DVD, respectively) this is probably much more difficult, as I haven't seen a single fanmade disc that contained multi-angle. I'm only familiar with Adobe Encore for authoring discs and it STILL doesn't support multi-angle.

What you are probably looking for the MKV is "Ordered Chapters". You have to create one continuous video stream which includes all editions you want to use, f.e different opening crawls. The different editions are then selectable in your players menu. Unfortunately there's a pretty severe disadvantage: Only two splitters support that feature so far, namely Haali Media Splitter and the preferable AV Splitter (not LAV Splitter!). When using other splitters or some kind of hardware player such as WDTV the file will play as if the different editions didn't exist. I'm also not sure if there's a way so that the correspondent audio and subtitle streams would play automatically.

Bluray has a similar feature called "Seemless Branching". In contrary to the MKV, the alternate scenes are in seperate m2ts files. Edition selection is done via playlists and the main menu. There are several commercial disc with this feature enabled, f.e. Avatar and Gladiator.

Got my AVCHD done and it looks amazing. Left out most of the audio options just for personal preference. All I need is Hairy Hen's, the 2 channel and mono 77' audio. I can't notice any shift in video quality from the MKV on my 720p TV.

EDIT: For those wanting to do the same. I used a program called AVCHDcoder (a quick google search can yield the download link). Load the MKV file into the program, select which audio streams you want to use, select the output size (I chose Dual Layer), select the output folder and let it do its thing. Mine took around 7 hours to finish but the results are very nice and can be burned to dual layer dvd.

vbangle said:

Echo3 said:

I downloaded from isohunt, and it will only play the first 20 minutes or so.  i tried to remux with tsmuxer, and i got this error.

 

Matroska parse error: Invalid EBML number size 0 at pos 4134288813

Yep you got the bad copy. Download from another source.

Youre right.  Got it from somewhere else, and it works great.  An amazing job, Harmy.

I skipped through it a bit, and overall looks amazing.  The multiple sound mixes are great.  I hope to try to add in my own PCM track ripped from the definitive LDs at some point. 

Rapidshare links for version 2.0 are now available at tehparadox