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Downloaded torrent file from Myspleen, Bit Tornado reports 'Bad Encoded Data'

Having the main 5.1 soundtrack and foreign subs only pre muxed into the mkv wouldn't be a bad idea. People could then download what they want/don't want at their pleasure. I thought all these soundtracks would only be included by default with the Blu-Ray..would save hell of a lot of bandwith..just a suggestion.

Highlights what a shite director he's become since 1979..PLEASE NO BLADERUNNER!!!

asterisk8 said:

eros said:

pointless opening scene.

Huh? How could it be a pointless scene to show how the engineers sacrifice themselves to create life on other planets, using the black ooze that is shown later in the film? Do you know the myth that inspired the film's title? I mean, I thought the film was pretty bad, but I don't get people who make lazy criticisms like this without backing their opinion up. Explain WHY it was a pointless scene.

Anyone who want a GOOD critique of the film that explains what's wrong with it from someone who knows what he's talking about, check out Gavin Rothery's blog (VFX supervisor of MOON): http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2012/6/11/so-what-was-wrong-with-prometheus.html

Really? is that what it was supposed to be? all I saw was an alien being drink some black stuff and fall into a waterfall somewhere means absolutely nothing to me, doesn't get explained what it was supposed to mean later in the film either. The story is about a bunch of archeologists that where WRONG about their theories. For all we know that opening scene could have been about the destruction of a world. Don't really care, I say the film didn't need the scene..on second thoughts that applies to about 50% of the movie. Quite possibly Ridley Scotts worst..

1 Alien

2 Aliens

3 Alien3 (I would put the Assembly Cut at #2)

4 Alien Resurrection

5 AvP

6 AvP Requiem

7 Prometheus

Saw this about a week ago. Well what a complete mess it is, pointless opening scene. It should have started straight on board the Prometheus, then  rips off just about every classic sci-fi movie I can think of, then descends into nothing more than a creepy crawlie B movie in the last half hour or so. If this is Scott's idea of good sci-fi I'm praying he stays away from Bladerunner!!

2.5 out of 5

BigP said:

Unfortunately if I try to burn to disc I will lose the HD quality. I was hoping to take the file, as is, and move it either to the ps3 to watch or save it to my HD to watch on the ps3 anytime I choose. I have been reading some places that I need to convert it from a m2ts file to something else. Anyone that can help that would be great! Thanks.

Download 'DGavcIndex' (no need to install) and demux the video and audio tracks you require, then download 'MKVtoolnix' and install. Using the 'MKVmerge' tool within toolnix you can merge the video and your choice of audio tracks into a MKV file

Just after Yoda stops tower structure from falling on OB1 and Anakin a scene has been inserted which was a bit later on the dvd showing Anakin regaining consciousness. Anyone else notice?

Troyig88 said:

What is a MKV? I assume it is some kind of format?

Not a format as such but a 'container file' similar to Harmys 'm2ts' files but more versatile. An mkv file can contain videotracks, audiotracks, subtitle files, chapters etc. And each of these tracks within the mkv can be in mutiple formats eg diVx, Xvid, x264, DTS, AC3, SRT, SSA. The beauty of them is that you end up with less clutter on your Harddrive or media server  (one file instead of mutiple files). And you can edit tracks later by demuxing and remuxing them from and to the mkv container file.

M2ts files play havoc with my media player and anything remotely resembling a search or rewind with these files totally confuses it. So I thought 'a conversion to avi and why not upscale to my tv's resolution while i'm at it!' Actually i've nearly finished the encode one more pass tonight (5 passes in total, 23 hours encoding time) and i've compared on my computer with the original and I can barely see any difference. Thanks for advice on the sound track.

ps ROTJ next ;)

Nice work Harmy, I am currently upscaling this to 1920 x 816 divx file at 24fps. Just a question about the soundtracks, what is the best one to use? I only want to use one in my upscale. I'm not really a dolby digital surround-phile so is the 1980 mix good enough or does it have limitations? Thanks.

are you going to use the original descent into the deathstar trench with horrid jump cut? because adywan actually fixed that scene on his revisited edit if your interested. looks much better.

Any chance of a link to the HD of this? ta

dot crawl issues all over the place and lots of video noise.

Apart from star wars, (which is quite a nice capture by the way). I wouldn't waste my bandwith on the other two. Your better off with the GOUT.

You people really do need to get out more.

It was a pretty good film. End of story.

this might be of some help

I think that TPM is the best of the bunch, having said that all's  Lucas needs to do is tag an animated version of Anakin's turn to the dark side onto the end of the new clone wars series and I wouldn't need to watch a prequel ever again.