johnlocke2342

I don't think I understood well how the final Blu-ray will be released: As a single BD50 or two BD25 or both?

And I love your new title :p

Sorry, I have the same disc version. But aren't them on YouTube?

Couldn't wait more and "wasted" (for lack of a better word) a BD25 and watched SW DeEd 2.5 on my LG BD player. Well, while I must say I didn't really agree to all the "it's like watching a whole new movie" comments for v2.1, I did feel like watching a completely different movie with v2.5.

great work, Harmy and everyone else involved. Looking forward to the full Blu-ray, and Empire v2 (I'm watching v1.0 while typing this).

Laserschwert said:

Harmy said:

analog said:

One thing that'd be great to show on that would be a picture of the 2006 DVDs - something like opening it up, showing the 2nd disc thrown in there, then played on a widescreen to illustrate how sad it is that it's the only official release of the originals, in original form. I mean, yes, I'm glad to own them, but it's sad that they're only really barely worth watching on a CRT, which you can't even really buy anywhere anymore.

That's a great idea. Actually, my BD player doesn't even allow for the GOUT to be zoomed in, when I press the full screen button, it simply stretches it out and it doesn't zoom it, so the only way to watch it on my BD player is with black bars on all sides.

dangraney said:

michaeldc said:

Cobra Kai said: Thanks for the info.  Was just about to research this.

To elaborate, as it's not quite so straight forward... while you can find MKVtools easily (even though it often goes by the name MoKgVm2DVD), the version of tsMuxer you require is called VoxMac Unofficial build, it's on the videohelp website (address below) and is listed under 'More information and other downloads' - it's the one listed for OSX SnowLeopard. Annoyingly for it to work correctly you need to remove 2 korean language fonts from your Library - it tells you exactly which ones in one of the read me files when you mount the dmg.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MoKgVm2DVD

It's a bit of a pain but easy when you figure it out. Unfortunately I've noticed the audio file names stripped from MKVtools are generic so are clearly stripped of the information about which track is which, you can tell the right order (stream 0, stream 1 etc) but when picking an audio track they all just say whatever language you assign to them in tsMuxer - if anyone can advise of a better demuxer for Mac that retains the audio track names, then I would love to hear about it! Seems so much easier on Windows :(

I followed the above approach... thanks to Harmy, btw. I used MKVtools, then added the files to tsMuxeR which created an AVCHD titled "BDMV".

I should add that I am on a Mac - I have Toast and a Blu-Ray burner, but I'm not sure how to burn this. Do I burn as a "Blu-Ray Video", "BDMV Folder" or something else? 

Sorry in advance if this has been covered - I've read so much, I'm going cross-eyed.

 

Burn it as a BDMV folder, but first you'll have to buy Roxio's $20 HD plugin.

waspattck said:

As a small caution to those who may be burning the MKV right to Blu-ray, be prepared to brick one blank in the event your player requires a Blu-ray spec file structure in order to recognize the file. The physical optical drive on some players might require a very rigid structure within spec to work.

I don't know if my own player would play an MKV directly from disc. My current setup is a small portable Seagate backup drive (1 TB), connected via USB to my Blu-ray player. That works flawlessly, but I am planning to purchase a BRD burner for this and other projects.

I know this might require a little (gasp!) research and (gasp!) work, but the BR file structure doesn't appear to be too complicated. It's not much different from AVCHD, which is why 2.1 worked so well with so many players. For example, there are free programs out there that will mux MKV to .m2ts (TSMuxer), which is used by BRD. That might be the first and most complicated step in making this work on physical disc without compression. Have fun people. Maybe take a shot at designing your own personal menus. I might try that myself and see what I can come up with:)  

 

You can also use TSMuxer (cross plateforme tool) to turn the mkv into a Blu-ray (without the menus of course).

Darth Nyriox said:

chyron8472,

Don't post the torrent!  The MKV is corrupted.

Must... Restrain from... Watching v2.1...

So same time as here in Paris. It's 8:37 at the time I'm typing this.

thanks Harmy, but I'll unfortunately not be able to download v2.5 until at least next week as I just moved out of my mom's and am waiting for the phone company to open a phone line at my new place :( 

A 9999th post? Why not johnlocke2342?

skywalker89 said:

Harmy said:

Plus it has nothing to do with this project.

Nothing to do with the project? Why not creating a Bonus-Disc with deleted scenes, like there is mostly one to every movie?

Did you even understand Harmy's goal? People posting in this thread are AGAINST the SEs. I know there are projects dedicated to the SEs, please go post there as here it is about REMOVING EVERYTHING Lucas changed after the 1977 release. The Jabba scene doesn't belong in it, either with the actor or the CGI Jabba even if it was originally shot with the actor.

Well Project Threepio are subs for Harmy's DeEds. They're not separate versions.

Happy birthday Harmy and thank you!

Well, DVD Player is... a DVD player. For DVDs. Harmy's DeEd is an AVCHD, aka a shrunken down Blu-ray. VLC works fine for me on OS X 10.8.4, as long as there's no subtitles.

Well I assumed you'd do that on another drive. If you want to use that drive to hold bigger files, I'd format it (losing all your data in the process, of course). If you want to do that (BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST!!!), I'd advise you to use either ExFAT or NTFS that are compatible with almost every OS, although ExFAT is just an enhanced FAT32, with almost the same limitations, except for file size. I know there is a DOS command to convert a FAT 32 drive to NTFS, but I don't remember it, and it's still a dangerous process for your data even if it worked fine for me in the past.

Hope it helps.

Well, drag & drop or copy/paste

Wouldn't it be formatted as FAT 32? If yes, it's a limitation of this file system that can't hold files bigger than 4GB.

I know, Star Wars 1313 looked awesome from what I saw.

Well the thing is that even if we try our best to make it as legal as possible, a fanedit (or a preservation for that matter) is illegal because it is made out of copyrighted material. I hate copyrights, because it sometimes have ridiculous results. For example, I own a LOT of DVDs and Blu-rays, I even have some entire TV shows. One of the TV Shows I'd gladly buy is "Malcolm in the Middle", which I'm a big fan of. Unfortunately, because of typical French copyright laws, the producers of the show aren't allowed to sell it here on DVD. Countless shows of different qualities even had their theme changed only here for the very same reason and are released here altered this way: House, Prison Break, Heroes (and I don't doubt many others) come to mind. I own the entire Malcolm in the Middle series as French-dubbed TVRips. I'd gladly give them my money just to make it legal and having the original soundtrack, but they just don't want to. That's stupid. For Star Wars it's almost the same thing: us fans want the Theatrical versions, but Lucas is keeping us illegally downloading gigabytes of data with every release, and waiting for an hypothetical release while he could just release it already, respecting his own statement about cinema history at the same time.

Voilà, it was my nightly rant about human stupidity.

CatBus said:

Harmy said:

I'm really not afraid of that happening :-)

You will be.

You will be.

See? This is what I love among us Star Wars fans.

Well I don't know how to do this, but I'm sure it is possible.

It's actually a good idea, if it can be automated (ie, a kind of script that watches the topic title changes by the OP).

Thanks, but my subs are completely messed up in this version. The issue I had with VLC seems to be fixed, but all the accentuated letters are gone, replaced by question marks. Again, I only tested on my Mac, I might try on my PC running both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04, just to make sure it's the muxing process, because my srt contains all its accents and plays with them nicely in MPlayerX.

EDIT: I might stop using VLC as the developers seem to have messed up subtitle playback on both WIndows and OS X (didn't try on Linux yet) for the past few versions. I just tried in MPlayerX on the same computer without changing anything and it plays completely fine so far.

No, but I thought people would call me crazy after I said I felt I had to pay something for Harmy's work.

@Cain Spaans: Dude, do like the rest of us, and just subscribe to the damn thread and follow the link in your inbox whenever someone replies until it comes out. We're not you slaves.

And to think I thought I had to warn people about my psychological disability not to be mocked or just be accepted... wow!