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You can go about your business. Move along, move along.
The Story of Star Wars
The Adventures Of Luke Skywalker
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION — Page 185
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Originally posted by: sgdelta1771
So where (and how) exactly do you download this?
So where (and how) exactly do you download this?
Alt.binaries.starwars
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Originally posted by: sgdelta1771
So where (and how) exactly do you download this?
So where (and how) exactly do you download this?
Or google:
adywan star wars revisited torrent (and either get the ntsc dvd5 or pal fixed proper, according to what format you use), using a program like utorrent.
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Originally posted by: gavin77
I know most of you guys are seasoned pros at all of this NEWSGROUP stuff, but I have been googling and trying to figure out how and what I need, without much success. I'm on a MAC so that complicates my choices.
I've been trying the torrent thing for this download and it is taking forever. At my current rate, I may have this thing by mid-next week sometime. (A week to download) I guess I'm thinking ahead to the DVD-9, and I do not want to go this route as it would probably take a month to download.
If anyone is willing would you please provide some guidance as far as the newsgroups? It seems like a way faster way to get this edit, and I'm sorry I know nothing about this junk.
Thanks, and to all of you veterans of this forum, I know these posts make some of you angry, (probably thinking, who would not understand this stuff, what a beginner loser), but I promise I'm not whining, etc., I'm just looking for some honest help!
I know most of you guys are seasoned pros at all of this NEWSGROUP stuff, but I have been googling and trying to figure out how and what I need, without much success. I'm on a MAC so that complicates my choices.
I've been trying the torrent thing for this download and it is taking forever. At my current rate, I may have this thing by mid-next week sometime. (A week to download) I guess I'm thinking ahead to the DVD-9, and I do not want to go this route as it would probably take a month to download.
If anyone is willing would you please provide some guidance as far as the newsgroups? It seems like a way faster way to get this edit, and I'm sorry I know nothing about this junk.
Thanks, and to all of you veterans of this forum, I know these posts make some of you angry, (probably thinking, who would not understand this stuff, what a beginner loser), but I promise I'm not whining, etc., I'm just looking for some honest help!
You need to open (pay for it) an account with a premium usenet provider. There are several from which to choose. Giganews is generally considered the best, but they are not the only one, for sure. Being on a Mac (it's not MAC, btw) you'll want to download and register (pay for it) Unison, the easiest to use OS X newsgroup program. In Unison, you'll enter your premium provider's login/password/server info. Then, search for alt.binaries.starwars. Once absw loads, in the "Files" tab, look for what you seek and download. You'll find that most large posts (eg, DVD's) are collections of split-up RAR archives. For example, you'll see that the post that has ady's latest NTSC version, there are 86 .rar files roughly 50MB each. There are also .par2 files. You'll need to download these as well. Finally, download MacPAR deLuxe (free). Take all of the RAR's and PAR's you've downloaded and put them into the same folder. Double click the .par2 file. In the case of the latest NTSC posting, it is named "STAR_WARS_IV_REVISITED_NTSC_DVD_5_REPACK.par2" Let MacPAR deLuxe do it's thing and eventually it will prompt you for where you want it to save the unpacked RAR archive. In this case, it will be an .ISO disc image file. To play the movie on your Mac, double click the .ISO file. Once the volume on the disc image has mounted, open up Apple's DVD player. To burn to disc, use Apple's Disk Utility, Toast, or the excellent LiquidCD (free). Newsgroups seem really confusing at first, but once you get the few basics down it's really easy. At least on a Mac with Unison, that is. I've never done usenet on Windows, so I can't speak for that experience. Good luck...
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In other words, torrents are peer-to-peer, which has always been a slow way to go. Somebody with usenet could get SW Revisited in maybe a little over an hour, while you have some people here who have been downloading it off the torrent since the beginning of this week and still are only about halfway done.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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http://www.binsearch.net/?max=250&g=alt.binaries.starwars&a=none%40none.com+(ADYWAN)
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Originally quoted by gavin77:
Thanks to all of you great brothers for helping me out with this newsgroup thing. I am going to try it out and see if this way of downloading is faster. Why is it faster by the way? Peace.
Thanks to all of you great brothers for helping me out with this newsgroup thing. I am going to try it out and see if this way of downloading is faster. Why is it faster by the way? Peace.
It's fatser because it does not rely on "seeders" who may or may not be putting out much bandwith. I get really good speeds on news groups. The only thing about Adys release that I did not like was that I had to make a ISO file from the extracted 4 plus gig Rar file which took up almost 5 extra gigs of HD space. So for a release that was about 5 gigs in size took up almost 10 extra gig's, and this does not include the space all the news group Par files took up which was over 4 gig's I believe. So were looking at 16 plus gig's of HD space total just to make a DVD -5 of Starwars:Revisited.
I will be torrenting the DVD-9 release to save on HD space.
Venerable member of the “Red Eye” Knights
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Originally posted by: adywan
Has anyone had a chance to test the new NTSC version on their HD-DVD players yet? I have my fingers crossed that the new encode works. Also is the new audio mix better than the other version now i have lowered the left & right channels or have i lowered it too much & does it need to be more in between the 2 versions?
Has anyone had a chance to test the new NTSC version on their HD-DVD players yet? I have my fingers crossed that the new encode works. Also is the new audio mix better than the other version now i have lowered the left & right channels or have i lowered it too much & does it need to be more in between the 2 versions?
;' )
You've got ahead of me!
I'm pulling in the NTSC repack as I type. Should have it burned by tonight (hopefully) and will report as soon as I can check it.
A Man With Far Too Much Time On His Hands
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Freezes on the Menu Transition from Revisited to the XWINGS - EDIT: Clock Never Starts during the STAR WARS IV Revisited Logo Hit Next and skips to :30 into the Play Menu
2:13 - Clock stops and freezes shortly after
5:30 - Clock stops and freezes shorty after.....and so on.
Ady,
I really appreciate you trying to get this thing working for all players but it seems like a deeper problem with the players on how they play regular DVD. I had every finger, toe, and legs crossed on this one but no go. This is the first time I have had any problems with regular DVDs on these things but whatever the problem is.....it is consistant and definately a bug in the playback compatibility.
This is still one of if not the greatest SW Fanedit DVD I have ever seen and you deserve all good things that come to you.
EDIT: I do like the how you moved Yavin over......you know it is still there but the explosion keeps with the black background and looks really good.
Maybe it will work on Covenant or BMadden's HD-DVD players as they have different ones than I do.
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I have unpacked the NTSC reload and it is playing on my laptop. The thing that I tested is the part that did not work in the previous NTSC or even the PAL version....when I go to the chapter selection and hit the cantina, that would cause it to hang up and freeze...it is playing now in the reloaded version, so whatever you did it now is working here in the USA...thanks...
I will watch the whole movie now and test all the other menu selections thoroughly and report back...
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! for doing this to help everyone out.
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Originally posted by: 1anakin
I'm sorry for being such a newb, but which file am I suppoed to download for the NTSC version, the newest version says REPACK, is that any better than the pervious one?
The REPACK is indeed the latest, but as Ady has said, only a few very minor tweaks were made. This release is really for the people with HD-DVD (esp. Toshiba) players who couldn't get the previous NTSC version to work.
If you're just watching this on your DVD player or pc, the regular NTSC should be fine.
Originally posted by: C3PX
Because through torrents you are downloading it through a web of other people's computers. You are limited not only by your own download speed, but by the uploads speeds of everyone you are pulling off of, also at the same time you are uploading bits of the files you have already downloaded for other users. With usenet the file is there on the internet and you can pull it down just about as fast as your download speed can manage.
In other words, torrents are peer-to-peer, which has always been a slow way to go. Somebody with usenet could get SW Revisited in maybe a little over an hour, while you have some people here who have been downloading it off the torrent since the beginning of this week and still are only about halfway done.
I'm sorry for being such a newb, but which file am I suppoed to download for the NTSC version, the newest version says REPACK, is that any better than the pervious one?
The REPACK is indeed the latest, but as Ady has said, only a few very minor tweaks were made. This release is really for the people with HD-DVD (esp. Toshiba) players who couldn't get the previous NTSC version to work.
If you're just watching this on your DVD player or pc, the regular NTSC should be fine.
Originally posted by: C3PX
Because through torrents you are downloading it through a web of other people's computers. You are limited not only by your own download speed, but by the uploads speeds of everyone you are pulling off of, also at the same time you are uploading bits of the files you have already downloaded for other users. With usenet the file is there on the internet and you can pull it down just about as fast as your download speed can manage.
In other words, torrents are peer-to-peer, which has always been a slow way to go. Somebody with usenet could get SW Revisited in maybe a little over an hour, while you have some people here who have been downloading it off the torrent since the beginning of this week and still are only about halfway done.
I'll continue the "news groups vs. torrents" war here by saying the primary reason I went with torrent was because I don't want to pay for a premium news reader account so I can get the "good" access. I also didn't want to mess around with par files (I already did that with the matrix squared, which I actually downloaded piece by piece off of rapidshare using a free account, yes, it took me nearly a month, that was a nightmare!). According to the gurus here it takes about a half an hour to learn how to use USENET (and you need more than the free account). I was already familiar with utorrent.
Was I just lucky that it was "so fast"? I don't think so, because there should be more people seeding the ntsc DVD5 now than when I started.
The thing is, I started downloading it with utorrent almost as soon as it was put up, and while only ONE person was seeding it (and a ton of leechers), I was able to get the whole thing in 12 hours flat (it said originally 21+ hours, but it kept going down). Burned the thing and was watching it just over 10 mins later. I have cable in case you're wondering, nothing special.
These horror stories about torrents being "too slow" are overblown. You're downloading a 4.37 gig file, what do you expect?
Just look at all the hassle people have had for pages and pages (back in the early 200's) who hadn't used USEnet before, and the missing/incomplete files and so forth.
Of course a lot of the problems people were having also had to do with the PAL version or trying to get it to work on their HD-DVD players, but whatever. Not everyone has had that kinda "luck."
As I see it, the only real difference between the news groupies and the torrenters, is that the news group users had access to it about 2 days sooner (the ones who could get it to work anyway). Now that they're both out, what's the point? But do what you like.
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Originally posted by: adywan
I'm gutted that it still doesn't work on the NTSC HD-DVD player but it is looking more and more like a problem with Toshiba players. I just picked up a Ventura HD-DVD (just for testing purposes. the thing is going back on Monday) player from our local QVC store for £50 and it plays fine. It has already been reported that the PAL version plays fine on a PAL Toshiba DVD player But not the original NTSC DVD which completely rules out any problem with the authoring as both use the same program and template. The "Repack" NTSC used the PAL template modified for NTSC which now rules out the Encoding. It will be interesting to find out if the new NTSC plays in PAL HD-DVD players. I do have one last idea though. Use DVDSHRINK and strip just the main movie and burn to disc and see if that plays. If that fails then i'm afraid you're out of luck.
I'm gutted that it still doesn't work on the NTSC HD-DVD player but it is looking more and more like a problem with Toshiba players. I just picked up a Ventura HD-DVD (just for testing purposes. the thing is going back on Monday) player from our local QVC store for £50 and it plays fine. It has already been reported that the PAL version plays fine on a PAL Toshiba DVD player But not the original NTSC DVD which completely rules out any problem with the authoring as both use the same program and template. The "Repack" NTSC used the PAL template modified for NTSC which now rules out the Encoding. It will be interesting to find out if the new NTSC plays in PAL HD-DVD players. I do have one last idea though. Use DVDSHRINK and strip just the main movie and burn to disc and see if that plays. If that fails then i'm afraid you're out of luck.
Ady, I think you've done more than enough to try to get this to work. As much as I'd love to watch it with my Toshiba, it just doesn't seem to be the case and I've figured out a workaround.
No worries for us few Toshiba HD-DVD folks!
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Use DVDSHRINK and strip just the main movie and burn to disc and see if that plays. If that fails then i'm afraid you're out of luck.
I am trying this right now....will update shortly.
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thanks for the efforts.......I might try to play with it some and see if I can figure out what may make it work. I just do not get it other than these Toshiba players have a problem!!!
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Originally posted by: hempler
well......did the DVDSHRINK thing and........................out of luck. Movie still has the same problem.
well......did the DVDSHRINK thing and........................out of luck. Movie still has the same problem.
I just read Ady's suggestion and was going to give that a try, but I see you beat me to it. I think it's looking more and more like we'll never see this thing work with the Toshiba HD-DVD players which is frustrating, but not the end of the world. Maybe the DVD-9 will miraculously work where the DVD-5 does not. I'm sure that won't be the case, but it never hurts to hope.
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So......using DVDSHRINK no worky........completely remaking the DVD from the main title seems to fix what ever is not compatible with the Toshiba HD-DVD players.
Does not make much sense....but I guess it is what it is. I will say this.....I do not think it is worth stripping it down for yourselves unless all you have is the HD-DVD player. If you have another way to watch the original Ady DVD.....I would not bother with a re-encode. I have many other ways to watch the DVD but just wanted to figure why it was not working and come up at least with one way to be able to watch it in those players for those who may not have another.
So....I would assume most of the cheaper consumer friendly DVD applications will probably produce this same result. I just do not know what the difference is in the actual DVD its self
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Is this version okay to burn? I noticed when I extracted the winrar the VIDEO_TS folder has a ton of stuff but the AUDIO_TS folder is empty?