No sign yet, I'm in the same boat. Come on Harmy surprise us.

You The Man!

At least it's not a 2015 release.

no worries here, as we have the fantastic v2.0 to hold us over until v2.1

Happy New Year and thanks for all the work you have put into this project, it truly is great!

Can anyone suggest what I should look for to obtain the fixed audio track(s) to remux into my original "broken" v2.0 mkv?

So far all I can find is the DVD version with fixed audio, not the soundtracks themselves.

I think someone has done a good job of issuing takedown notices on usenet.

Were ESJ and ROTJ Despecialised ever released as mkv or just AVCHD?  They are also something I am having difficulty finding.

Ah well.

Happy new year everyone.

All the best to you and yours :-)

Thanks for this Harmy, very much appreciated!

I found the 2.0 Star Wars and the 1.0 ESB and ROTJ as torrents a month or two ago. I just wanted to make sure that there weren't v2.0 ESB and ROTJ floating around somewhere yet.

If not,  is there any rough ETA for those?

Again, many thanks for this, my kids get to watch the true films!

Harmy, I have sent you a private message. Have you read it ?

Happy new Year to everyone !

hey guys. i'd like to see Harmy's Despecialized Edition but it seems that i'm too stupid for the interwebz. can someone show me  the right direction, please?

greetings

mudse

mudse said:

hey guys. i'd like to see Harmy's Despecialized Edition but it seems that i'm too stupid for the interwebz. can someone show me  the right direction, please?

 

greetings

 

mudse

I'm very tech inclined and I've found the quest a bit hard to follow as well, so don't feel bad.

I'm still a total newb here so I can't help much. The most I can tell you is that it seems to me the easiest path is to get a myspleen.org account (I believe open registration is still going on) and search for "despecialized" there. When I search I only see version 1.0 there but when I clicked on version 1.0 there was a link to version 2.0. You will need a torrent program, (I use utorrent) to get the torrent files. From there I can help no more since I haven't bothered downloading them yet as I'm waiting on version 2.1 before I do. I'm guessing you would need access to a blu-ray burner if you wanted to make DVD's or you could perhaps just watch them on your computer or media center or something. This is all speculation on my part. When version 2.1 comes out, I will try to figure out the rest of the journey!

Hope that helps at least a little.

Looks like I need to re-encode the .mkv in order to make up for an incompatibility in my Oppo BDP-83 player. I will also use the opportunity to strip out the language tracks I do not need. Could someone tell me the average bit rate of the .mkv during playback? I would like to not have to guess. I will then....if I understand the math correctly....subtract the total data size of all of the deleted tracks to determine my new average bit rate.

Just FYI, the rate I came up with was 20Mbps. My concern is not compressing too much, but more the opposite. I do not want an unnecessarily large re-encode.

Thanks.

Great work, Harmy!!!

jdryyz said:  Just FYI, the rate I came up with was 20Mbps.

That's sounds about right, depending on the size of the audio and subtitle tracks you wish to retain, but consider using MeGUI's built-in bitrate calculator to find a more precise figure.  You could also try recompressing with a CRF of 16.  That should retain the quality of the original, and at 720p the result should easily fit on a BD-25.

I find it strange that an Oppo player has trouble with the file though.  Are you sure that a re-encode is necessary?

It plays fine on my BDP-93. The problem with the 83 is more than likely related to not being current with the latest H.264 updates. At least, that's what usually caused the trouble that I am seeing in the past. Basically, I am getting a scrambled/pixelized video image. Audio is ok.

I am still having trouble with my re-encoded file. I am getting occasional pauses in playback at fairly regular intervals. I have done re-encoding like this several times in the past so I'm not sure what's wrong.

I will give MeGUI a try.

As you may have already guessed, I am using HandBrake for the re-encode. Not sure if the suggestion you made applies to it. I believe you're referring to the settings in the "Video Quality" section. I remember experimenting with those settings in earlier versions of HandBrake years ago and quickly reverted back to the Variable setting because the encodes did weird things on playback. I see no reason why I couldn't try it again, but how did you determine what setting to use? Wish the data size option wasn't removed.

 

Chewtobacca said:

jdryyz said:  Just FYI, the rate I came up with was 20Mbps.

That's sounds about right, depending on the size of the audio and subtitle tracks you wish to retain, but consider using MeGUI's built-in bitrate calculator to find a more precise figure.  You could also try recompressing with a CRF of 16.  That should retain the quality of the original, and at 720p the result should easily fit on a BD-25.

I find it strange that an Oppo player has trouble with the file though.  Are you sure that a re-encode is necessary?

I'm not absolutely certain, but with the BDP-83, it might be a simple matter of it being limited to the FAT32 files system and as a result can't read the relatively large 15gig file. This is true of most BD players. The 93/103 can support the NTSF system, I believe, which can handle files of that size.