Star Wars Despecialized Editions - Custom Bluray Set (Released) — Page 39

pacobobjahnson said:

Yo this looks pretty dank

But one question: where be dem download links?

Sorry we don’t do that here. If you read this thread you will easily find the link to the myspleen invite request thread. I hope that helps.

Jetrell Fo said:

myspleen invite request thread

I thought that thread was defunct. Am I thinking of another one? Are you talking about the one on Myspleen Forums? The invite thread on there has a notice:

UPDATE: Recruitment on this forum CLOSED for good. Look elsewhere.

http://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/Requesting-invites-to-private-torrent-sites-ie-Myspleen/id/52834

I am so glad registration finally reopened here on OT. I didn’t find the Harmy versions or OT until after the registrations were locked down. It killed me when NJVC’s BD50 set came up and there was no way for me to get the links, etc. I was eventually able to get some of the other BD25s without menus and kept seeding them for a while until I went a full week with no activity. Just got around to rechecking OT since I had given up. I don’t know how much I’ll be able to contribute since I’m not the creative type, but still glad to finally be on here. Thanks to all for what I was able to find and learn while I was in limbo.

New to BD/DVD burning and I think my brain exploded after attempt No 10. Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns? I’ve had some success to burn SW 2.5 ISO (no menu) but the 2.7 MKV eludes me. Used VLC, MPEG streamclip, ffmpeg, tsmuxer, handbrake, Burn, Toast w. BD/HD plugin etc. and finally got a copy of the FinalCut Pro 10.3.1 trial version. Spent 50 hours on this ove the long weekend burning mostly coasters or computer-only viewable disks. Even installed VirtualBox with Windows10 and tried imgburn without success. Can anyone (any Mac guys?) shed some light on a less frustrating way to burn njvc’s BluRay 2.7 release with multi-Audio/Subtitle AND the menu? It is such a polished, professional looking product with the menu. Please, lest I suffer another brain injury? Do I really need to buy a PC? 😃

njvc - any pointers?

Thanks guys… really appreciate some clueing in.

Can’t disk utility burn ISO images?

netgrappler said:

New to BD/DVD burning and I think my brain exploded after attempt No 10. Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns? I’ve had some success to burn SW 2.5 ISO (no menu) but the 2.7 MKV eludes me. Used VLC, MPEG streamclip, ffmpeg, tsmuxer, handbrake, Burn, Toast w. BD/HD plugin etc. and finally got a copy of the FinalCut Pro 10.3.1 trial version. Spent 50 hours on this ove the long weekend burning mostly coasters or computer-only viewable disks. Even installed VirtualBox with Windows10 and tried imgburn without success. Can anyone (any Mac guys?) shed some light on a less frustrating way to burn njvc’s BluRay 2.7 release with multi-Audio/Subtitle AND the menu? It is such a polished, professional looking product with the menu. Please, lest I suffer another brain injury? Do I really need to buy a PC? 😃

njvc - any pointers?

Thanks guys… really appreciate some clueing in.

NJVC has an MKV now? What… is the point of it?

For the meantime, I’ll assume there are some typos here and that you originally viewed my MKV and now want to switch to burning his ISO (if I’m misunderstanding, we can start over). Are you burning the single or dual layer version? What are you trying to use for playback? Have you burned any of NJVC’s other discs? What happened with the imgburn attempt?

I’m on a Mac and just use the Finder to burn my images - Right click on the file and select “Burn Disk Image <filename> to Disc…”. This works well with the .iso images for njvc’s set. Not sure why you would want to use the MKV if you are burning to a physical BD disc. NJVC has two options for you - all 25GB discs or some 50GB discs. Make sure you have the appropriately sized blank discs of course. I chose to go the 25GB route so I needed 10 blank 25GB BD discs.

towne32 said:

netgrappler said:

New to BD/DVD burning and I think my brain exploded after attempt No 10. Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns? I’ve had some success to burn SW 2.5 ISO (no menu) but the 2.7 MKV eludes me. Used VLC, MPEG streamclip, ffmpeg, tsmuxer, handbrake, Burn, Toast w. BD/HD plugin etc. and finally got a copy of the FinalCut Pro 10.3.1 trial version. Spent 50 hours on this ove the long weekend burning mostly coasters or computer-only viewable disks. Even installed VirtualBox with Windows10 and tried imgburn without success. Can anyone (any Mac guys?) shed some light on a less frustrating way to burn njvc’s BluRay 2.7 release with multi-Audio/Subtitle AND the menu? It is such a polished, professional looking product with the menu. Please, lest I suffer another brain injury? Do I really need to buy a PC? 😃

njvc - any pointers?

Thanks guys… really appreciate some clueing in.

I have a Mac and use Leawo. I think that’s how it’s spelled. You can get it on the App Store. I use NJVC’s .iso files. You just drag them onto the app and then hit burn. It’s really simple.

I suspect it may be a problem with his blu-ray player (perhaps not liking the brand of disc) if he has tried that many software options and indeed is using an ISO (and not an MKV). As you all have said, with an ISO, there’s not much that can go wrong.

It’s the ‘computer only viewable discs’ part that seems strange. Hopefully he is not trying to play these back on an Xbox One.

netgrappler said:

Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns?

.mkv Files don’t have menus. njvc’s releases are .iso files, ready to burn with menus. If you are calling something “njvc’s .mkv files”, you are most likely trying to burn Harmy’s .mkv files on bluray, not njvc’s .iso files.

Maeby said:

netgrappler said:

Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns?

.mkv Files don’t have menus. njvc’s releases are .iso files, ready to burn with menus. If you are calling something “njvc’s .mkv files”, you are most likely trying to burn Harmy’s .mkv files on bluray, not njvc’s .iso files.

Even so, he says he tried tsmuxer. With my mkv, that should still burn correctly (I’ve done so myself). Either way, I think we will need some clarification about what files he’s talking about in order to offer proper help.

Ah, I guess so. I must be mistaken, because I thought that mkv files don’t contain menus. (I haven’t been at this for very long). We don’t even know that he has your mkv files anyway, since he said “njvc’s mkv files”, and I don’t know that those even exist. No idea what files he’s actually working with.

You’re not mistaken about MKVs and menus. As you say, it’s just unclear where the mistake is.

dahmage said:

Can’t disk utility burn ISO images?

Unfortunately, no more Disk Utility with MacOS 10.12 Sierra. That’s what I used to use for DVDs. Thanks.

towne32 said:

netgrappler said:

New to BD/DVD burning and I think my brain exploded after attempt No 10. Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns? I’ve had some success to burn SW 2.5 ISO (no menu) but the 2.7 MKV eludes me. Used VLC, MPEG streamclip, ffmpeg, tsmuxer, handbrake, Burn, Toast w. BD/HD plugin etc. and finally got a copy of the FinalCut Pro 10.3.1 trial version. Spent 50 hours on this ove the long weekend burning mostly coasters or computer-only viewable disks. Even installed VirtualBox with Windows10 and tried imgburn without success. Can anyone (any Mac guys?) shed some light on a less frustrating way to burn njvc’s BluRay 2.7 release with multi-Audio/Subtitle AND the menu? It is such a polished, professional looking product with the menu. Please, lest I suffer another brain injury? Do I really need to buy a PC? 😃

njvc - any pointers?

Thanks guys… really appreciate some clueing in.

NJVC has an MKV now? What… is the point of it?

For the meantime, I’ll assume there are some typos here and that you originally viewed my MKV and now want to switch to burning his ISO (if I’m misunderstanding, we can start over). Are you burning the single or dual layer version? What are you trying to use for playback? Have you burned any of NJVC’s other discs? What happened with the imgburn attempt?

Thanks for the reply. I’m still so confused - attempting this while absorbing all of the new info can be rather tasking when you’re getting old. Had to get through 40 or so open browser tabs to retrace my steps. Looking at the snazzy menu layout and specials, this is what I wanted to download:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Editions-Custom-Bluray-Set/id/49995

Searched for SW Despec and found on uloz as 21.rars. When unarchived it revealed the 3 Single Layer ISOs for SW 2.5, TESP 2.0, and ROTJ 2.5. Then searched and found a link for color-corrected SW 2.7 (the MKV) - on fanedit perhaps? This one was a torrent link and included the Project Threepio subtitle folder and the Readme. Oops - sincere apologies. This version is, indeed, yours - Single Layer (21.45GB) dtd 20160401. I think the above link posted by njvc may have thrown me off.

Would like to burn the color corrected 2.7 MKV for use in a standalone Bluray player, preserving all Audio and Subtitle tracks, as well as the menu. Burned the above ROTJ ISO with Toast but apparently menus won’t transfer from ISOs and will require re-authoring of the menus, I guess? That’s also my only non-coaster at the moment.

When encoding the MKV with Toast as a BDMV, Toast kicked out the mp4 trailers, teasers, and other special videos at the end of 14 hours of encoding and muxing, so I didn’t want burn it like that. Imgburn had issues with my external Pioneer-XD05 burner in the VirtualBox Windows 10 VM environment.

Thanks, again for your help.

Stryder said:

towne32 said:

netgrappler said:

New to BD/DVD burning and I think my brain exploded after attempt No 10. Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns? I’ve had some success to burn SW 2.5 ISO (no menu) but the 2.7 MKV eludes me. Used VLC, MPEG streamclip, ffmpeg, tsmuxer, handbrake, Burn, Toast w. BD/HD plugin etc. and finally got a copy of the FinalCut Pro 10.3.1 trial version. Spent 50 hours on this ove the long weekend burning mostly coasters or computer-only viewable disks. Even installed VirtualBox with Windows10 and tried imgburn without success. Can anyone (any Mac guys?) shed some light on a less frustrating way to burn njvc’s BluRay 2.7 release with multi-Audio/Subtitle AND the menu? It is such a polished, professional looking product with the menu. Please, lest I suffer another brain injury? Do I really need to buy a PC? 😃

njvc - any pointers?

Thanks guys… really appreciate some clueing in.

I have a Mac and use Leawo. I think that’s how it’s spelled. You can get it on the App Store. I use NJVC’s .iso files. You just drag them onto the app and then hit burn. It’s really simple.

I know Leawo only allows for 8 Audio tracks - not sure about the number Subtitles. Did you get Leawo to preserve the menus from the ISOs??

stealthboy said:

I’m on a Mac and just use the Finder to burn my images - Right click on the file and select “Burn Disk Image <filename> to Disc…”. This works well with the .iso images for njvc’s set. Not sure why you would want to use the MKV if you are burning to a physical BD disc. NJVC has two options for you - all 25GB discs or some 50GB discs. Make sure you have the appropriately sized blank discs of course. I chose to go the 25GB route so I needed 10 blank 25GB BD discs.

Nothing to lose and another possible coaster to gain. Will attempt this right now. It can’t be that easy… 😃

netgrappler said:

stealthboy said:

I’m on a Mac and just use the Finder to burn my images - Right click on the file and select “Burn Disk Image <filename> to Disc…”. This works well with the .iso images for njvc’s set. Not sure why you would want to use the MKV if you are burning to a physical BD disc. NJVC has two options for you - all 25GB discs or some 50GB discs. Make sure you have the appropriately sized blank discs of course. I chose to go the 25GB route so I needed 10 blank 25GB BD discs.

Nothing to lose and another possible coaster to gain. Will attempt this right now. It can’t be that easy… 😃

Well, don’t go burning anything just yet. Thanks for clarifying.

If you’ve only got the MKV for 2.7, the bad news is you definitely won’t get a menu or any special features.

The good news is it should be fairly easy to burn. You should only need tsmuxer to make your ISO and then any standard image writing program that will use an ISO. If that’s what you already tried, we should probably troubleshoot that step. I’m not sure that I trust any other programs not to re-encode it if using the MKV directly (I don’t know anything about Mac software, though).

Edit: Oh, have you simply been burning the MKV to a disc? Like, you insert the disc and see the MKV and click on it and that’s how it plays on your computer? No, that will never work on a blu-ray player. 😃 Tsmuxer will make it into an ISO.

towne32 said:

netgrappler said:

stealthboy said:

I’m on a Mac and just use the Finder to burn my images - Right click on the file and select “Burn Disk Image <filename> to Disc…”. This works well with the .iso images for njvc’s set. Not sure why you would want to use the MKV if you are burning to a physical BD disc. NJVC has two options for you - all 25GB discs or some 50GB discs. Make sure you have the appropriately sized blank discs of course. I chose to go the 25GB route so I needed 10 blank 25GB BD discs.

Nothing to lose and another possible coaster to gain. Will attempt this right now. It can’t be that easy… 😃

Well, don’t go burning anything just yet. Thanks for clarifying.

If you’ve only got the MKV for 2.7, the bad news is you definitely won’t get a menu or any special features.

The good news is it should be fairly easy to burn. You should only need tsmuxer to make your ISO and then any standard image writing program that will use an ISO. If that’s what you already tried, we should probably troubleshoot that step. I’m not sure that I trust any other programs not to re-encode it if using the MKV directly (I don’t know anything about Mac software, though).

Edit: Oh, have you simply been burning the MKV to a disc? Like, you insert the disc and see the MKV and click on it and that’s how it plays on your computer? No, that will never work on a blu-ray player. 😃 Tsmuxer will make it into an ISO.

It’s all starting to make sense now. Thought that the images (menus) for njvc’s Custom Bluray Set translated to your 2.7 release. I now understand that I totally cross-threaded this in my head. I have a couple of BD-Rs left and will try burning one of the ISOs from the Finder. Can it be really this easy? Maybe I just over-complicated things. Lord, I hope so 😃

Yup, on my first attempt Burn.app only recognized the MKV when choosing DVD(UDF) so I created an awesome data backup of your .mkv. So, technically not really a coaster but that’s not what I wanted - so… coaster. Aurora Blu-Ray Copy started its write and immediately crashed leaving the disk unusable but otherwise empty… coaster… etc etc

I will also try tsmuxer again on your 2.7 MKV tonight but I think when I used it two days ago, the burned BD wasn’t recognized in the BD player. However, VLC on my laptop played it just fine. So, also not really a coaster but I don’t normally watch movies on my computers - therefore… coaster. Trying to convince myself right now that it’s simply time for a shiney, new, fancy BD-player 😃

OK. Here’s the scoop. Tried to burn njvc’s SW ISO and received an error from “Finder” that the file is damaged so I burned TESB instead. Still no menus. Movie just starts auto-playing and when pressing the ‘Top Menu’ button, it just start playing from the beginning again. I’m pretty sure at this point that the burn was clean and that the problem might be with the player itself.

So, performed a firmware update on the player, which regrettably didn’t help. Unfortunately, this is the only BD-player we have and while it is Profile 2.0 compliant and has cool AVCHD and HDMI stickers, it’s about 8-9 years old. I think an upgrade is in order.

Also just got another download source. Btw is myspleen just faster than other DL sites or what is the deal with the invite requests? No DL caps?

Thank you, everyone, for helping me out on this. My head’s much clearer now and I think that the old Sony BDP-S360 might be playing a big part in my fiasco… Any suggestions for some quality BD-R DL disc brands to use and/or a BD-Player that’s confirmed to display the ISO menus? 😃

Thanks again, guys!!! Really appreciate it!!!

I’m fairly certain you have not burned my version if there is no menu included. There were ISO versions doing the rounds before I made these that had no menus or features. I suspect that’s what you have downloaded.

(PM sent regarding my versions)

Ok, I’m downloading NJVC’s ISOs for the Despecialized trilogy. I know this might be a couple of questions that’ve been asked a million times before, but since this is my first time trying to burn Blu-ray discs (and with fully interactive menus), can anyone here recommend what software I should use and which brands of blank Blu-ray discs will get me the proper results? I’m using a PC with Windows 10, and I plan to watch the eventual Blu-rays on my Playstation 3, Playstation 4, and XBox One S. Also, the burner device I plan to use is the LG Ultra Slim Portable Blu-ray Writer.

This is the device. --> https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-External-Optical-WP50NB40/dp/B011327QXC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1484715297&sr=1-1&keywords=LG+Ultra+Slim+Portable+Blu-ray+Writer

I hope you guys can help me out. =]

njvc said:

I’m fairly certain you have not burned my version if there is no menu included. There were ISO versions doing the rounds before I made these that had no menus or features. I suspect that’s what you have downloaded.

(PM sent regarding my versions)

Thanks for verifying that my downloads are not the expected versions. Hit a quota downloading right now. Will resume download tomorrow and am convinced that with the new version all will be resolved. Tried massaging the wrong pig for four days 😃

netgrappler said:

I think that the old Sony BDP-S360 might be playing a big part in my fiasco… Any suggestions for some quality BD-R DL disc brands to use and/or a BD-Player that’s confirmed to display the ISO menus?

I have the same blu-ray player and it’s never had a problem with anything I’ve burned.
The BD25 and BD50 discs I’ve been using are Japanese made TDK.