Ginge said:

I was under the impression that there is still a level of reencoding when going from avchd to mkv.   Regardless, the best method for mkv would be if it came from the source file. 

What revgen told you is perfectly true.  You can remux the AVCHD to MKV without quality loss and don't need to re-encode unless for some reason you want to, so there is no need to go back to the source file.  (The uncompressed audio can be tracked down and muxed in easily enough.)  I don't know why amorphous wants an mkv when most devices that play MKVs will play AVCHDs too, but if he must have one he can demux the m2ts tream with tsmuxer and remux with mkvmerge.  Harmy's release is big enough to preserve quality at 720p, especially given the sources, so there is really no need for a big MKV release.

@The Aluminum Falcon

There is no need whatsoever to use BDtoAVCHD to do this (and a transcoded file would not be lossless). :-)

Chewtobacca said:

@The Aluminum Falcon

There is no need whatsoever to use BDtoAVCHD to do this (and a transcoded file would not be lossless). :-)

Didn't know that... Cool. Thanks for the information.

Registered to say thanks, watched your versions of Ep 4 and 5 today and it was just fantastic.  I always loved Star Wars for the small mistakes and overall campiness and it lost a lot of that with the CGI'ing up.

My wife really enjoyed them as well Harmy, and my 6 month old son watched a bit of ESB, his first ever viewing on your edition!  Hopefully this starts him off on the right foot.

Again a big thanks!

BTW, are the Despecializations timed to the GOUTs? In other words: Does any of the GOUT audio tracks (when played at 23.976 fps) sync up completely?

Laserschwert said:

BTW, are the Despecializations timed to the GOUTs? In other words: Does any of the GOUT audio tracks (when played at 23.976 fps) sync up completely?

Yes, fits perfectly, you don't even need any delay function. Just stretch them with MeGUI or something else to 23.976 fps.

Harmy said:

Yeah, when I was doing the cut, I had GOUT there in a small window as a guide, so it's the same as GOUT +/- one frame.

Yes, I already added German audio tracks to my copies of your AVCHD Despecialized Editions of SW and TESB and it worked perfectly fine for me. Although I used to love the "Krieg der Sterne"-logo, I'm also fine with the original opening crawl and English subtitles because most of our official DVD- or BR-releases don't provide written text that's translated into local language either.

I also love the "vintage look" of your Star Destroyers. Watching TESB DeEd on my HD TFT monitor yesterday was a stunning experience. Thank you so much for everything!!!

Just found this thread and am pretty excited to see this.  Any chance someone can send me a myspleen invite? 

n00b

Yes, I already added German audio tracks to my copies of your AVCHD Despecialized Editions of SW and TESB and it worked perfectly fine for me. Although I used to love the "Krieg der Sterne"-logo, I'm also fine with the original opening crawl and English subtitles because most of our official DVD- or BR-releases don't provide written text that's translated into local language either.

AFAIK someone is just working on this issue (German intro + text crawl + alien languages).

Ok, tech question.  I've got the whole BDMV folder downloaded; which file(s) am I burning on my DVD+R DL to play this on my PS3?  It looks like the movie is the .m2ts file.  Do I just burn that, or do I burn the whole folder?  

Burn the whole folder.

Not sure if you've been asked this yet or not, but would there be any quality gain from outputting the source file for these at a higher bitrate (like for a BluRay disc), or is the bitrate already maxed out on these?

Ugh, no dice.  My PS3 won't read the disc.  Using an iMac and disc utility (Imgburn is only for PC).