jackspank said:

Any news on potential x264 releases? There was talk a few pages ago of seeing how best to encode to that format. Those of us who ditched DVDs in favor of HTPCs would be most jazzed for the superior quality of x264 (or any modern codec really).

Of course, I fully respect the time and effort DJ already put into the project. So I'll take whatever is released and be happy.

 

Actually I have looked into it anymore since then, I have just been SO happy to finally get this done and out, but I will look into it a little more now, I am running some tests as I type this, so we will see.

How is this, it is an MKV sample of SW V3.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/khdp4m

Non-newsgroup shares would be greatly appreciated!

captainsolo said:

Non-newsgroup shares would be greatly appreciated!

Second.
Although it has been said before, it will probably end up all over the place.
I can wait. 

ChainsawAsh said:

Wow.  That looks absolutely stunning, DJ.

I'm so looking forward to sitting down and watching this!

So is this how the MKV file should be?

dark_jedi, I've lurked on this forum for quite a while. I've been DL'ing from a.b.sw since the 90's and have seen *alot* of Star Wars stuff over the years.  If it means anything to you, I actually registered tonight to tell you that I have never seen any thing look as good as that MKV file you have posted.  It's...simply incredible.

Love the video quality in that clip. Though I noticed something a bit odd. at 7:30 into it as Leia is being escorted down the hall the stormtrooper on the left has some really weird black flickering going on with the top of his eyes. Is that from the source?

I didn't hear any problem with the audio or see any green tint through the whole thing, but I am watching on my PC, I can't play these files anywhere but my PC, that is why I am not a fan of them.

Did anyone else hear audio problems a or see this green tint?

I compared V3 and PAL GOUT side by side to see how improved it was and it certainly is an improvement in terms of graininess and contrast, but I'm sorry, the green tint isn't there in the PAL GOUT, you can quite clearly see it on the crawl letters.  Also, what bitrate settings did you use? It seems a bit more compressed than the PAL GOUT.

Harmy said:

the green tint isn't there in the PAL GOUT

I hate to say this, and I am not sure if you are hinting at your PAL is superior comment again like I have seen in other threads, but I am going to be blunt, you are full of shit, I have the Star Wars Trilogy retail PAL and NTSC sets and I just looked at the same pics as posted above, and throughout the film and it is to there(the green tint) you need to look again, and I am pretty certain your PAL set is no different than mine, I bought it from Amazon.co.uk

and the flickering is on the GOUT as well, PAL and NTSC so I do not want to read someone saying any different on that to, it seems to be where black hits white, because if you look at the black panels in the hallway just before the door explodes it is there in the right hand side as well, not sure if anything can be done with that or it would have.

The bitrate on the sample I am sure is pretty low, like I have said, I am still learning this, why not give suggestions, also can't you see what the bitrate is by loading that mkv into txmuxer? won't that tell you what it is?

Sorry to sound harsh, but this PAL & NTSC crap really gets me going, especially when you can clearly see the exact same thing on both.

I do have a MeGUI question though if anyone knows, I tried a sample encode last night, the video fed into it is 23.976, but once it finished, MeGUI changed it to 23.8095, why in the hell did it do that? and how can you avoid this from happening again?

No, no, no, I'm sorry, I wasn't implying anything in terms of PAL being superior, I just wanted to make it clear which set I'm looking at in case the NTSC was a bit different, is all. I wouldn't have thought the PAL set has better colurs, that wouldn't make sense, especially as it's just a conversion from NTSC anyway, I just know that when comparing stuff like that I have previously been asked whether I'm using the PAL or NTSC version, so I just wanted to avoid that by making it clear right away.

Here's what I mean:

Notice how the letters are more yellow in the GOUT. I don't want to be critical, it is a really fine job you've done there, just pointing it out.

I can't wait for it to be released.