THE STAR WARS SAGA - 1080P AVCHD DVD-9 for PS3 & Blu-Ray players - Episodes 1, 4 & 5 available now — Page 13

Adywan, thank you for doing this!  It is so much easier to be able to just burn to a DVD rather than try to futz with converting, especially in Linux where the tools seem to be nonexistent.

The Blu-Ray compatibility test works fine in the Samsung BD-P1400.  The test image looks great.  Equipment, in case that matters: I'm projecting onto a white 16:9 (92" diagonal) screen, using the Panasonic PT-AE1000U 1080p LCD projector, 24fps mode.  Viewing from a distance of 5 feet.  I cannot report on the projected quality of "Star Wars" (still downloading).

Besides the OT, I'm also very interested in seeing Revenge of the Sith in HD.  Glad that is on your agenda.  Been trying to get it via BT, but apparently on PirateBay, most everyone decided to follow PotC: "take what you can, give nothing back".  I think my share ratio is over 7 now, and I have less than 10% of the film.  Lame.

Which brings me to: Thanks to everyone supporting the BitTorrent on Demonoid!  Wish I could afford a faster connection, but I have the upload maxed out to what my connection will do (and 100 upload slots).  I've heard that uploading too much on cable makes downloading slower, but whatever, I'm glad to have to opportunity to help, even if it's just a little bit.

Are there any problems if I were to use my TV as a monitor for my computer and watch the movie off of that (instead of a Blu-Ray player)?

adywan said:

TRIFORCE89 said:

Are there any problems if I were to use my TV as a monitor for my computer and watch the movie off of that (instead of a Blu-Ray player)?

You'll need a good dual core or quad core processor to be able to watch it using your pc without serious lagging. But if your processor can handle it then hook it up via DVI and using your TV will be fine.

 

2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. And I'll be using a DVI-HDMI cable and a TRS Connector to TOSLINK cable. I had WG's HD WMVs at one point, but...they were WMVs and I have a Mac. So, Flip4Mac took a while to process those. But they played just fine over QuickTime. VLC played them without sound. I was asking mostly about AVCHD, because I hadn't heard of it until this thread.

I have a Blu-Ray player, but only SL DVDs. As long as there's no problems doing this over the computer (and I don't need to buy DL DVDs) then I'm happy. Can't wait to watch this.

This may be a dumb question, but can I play the movie directly off my PS3 hard drive, or do I have to burn in onto a disc?

(I haven't downloaded it yet, or I would have already checked.)

vbangle said:

TRIFORCE89 said:

I have a Blu-Ray player, but only SL DVDs. As long as there's no problems doing this over the computer (and I don't need to buy DL DVDs) then I'm happy. Can't wait to watch this.

 

NO NOT SL DVD ...you NEED to burn to a DL DVD

 

I know that. That's why I want to watch it over the computer instead of burning anything.

Ripplin said:

Surely it would be a good idea to buy one DL, at least?

I could. Might as well since all six films are getting this treatment.

Anyway, my question's been answered. So, let's go back to thanking Adywan for doing this. :p

adywan said:

You'll need a good dual core or quad core processor to be able to watch it using your pc without serious lagging. But if your processor can handle it then hook it up via DVI and using your TV will be fine.

 

or if you have a card that can handle H.264 decoding. ie Nvidia 8x00/ ATi 2x00> series. The CPU requirement goes WAY down :).

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071230-measuring-cpu-usage-during-hd-playback-ati-vs-nvidia.html

adywan said:

Some good news (for the PT fans). I got my laserdisc of TPM yesterday so i can begin work on the theatrical version of this in the week. I haven't had chance to listen to the 5.1 track yet but i'll begin ripping it tomorrow and then begin the long editing process shortly after. This will probably be the next release.

that is good news! woo hoo!

any indy fans here? i can up my 1080p avchd raiders too if required

Was TPM ever broadcast in HD? What are you using as a source?

Looking forward to all 6!!

Flan

You metioned that you are using the hv encodes as a source, why would you use an encode as a source instead of the actual TS/MPEG-2 files which the encode originated from?

Wished you didnt have to decrease the bitrate so as to compress into into DVD-9 format.

adywan said:

no i'm not using the HV encodes at all. They were taken from the sky broadcast which wasn't very good quality and had glitches. I gave up using them as a source at the beginning of the project. I'm using the original 16gb german broadcasts (i only need to get hold of AOTC & ROTS). x264 is a miles better compression format than MPEG2 so compressing them to a DVD-9 is an almost negligable quality drop than the originals and at least with the AVCHD's you don't have to stream them from the PC so you can watch them in 1080p instead of 1080i (which most HD video PC cards output)

Ohh.... thanks for clarifying that. Fine, that makes sense.

pjvader said:

adywan said:

Some good news (for the PT fans). I got my laserdisc of TPM yesterday so i can begin work on the theatrical version of this in the week. I haven't had chance to listen to the 5.1 track yet but i'll begin ripping it tomorrow and then begin the long editing process shortly after. This will probably be the next release.

that is good news! woo hoo!

any indy fans here? i can up my 1080p avchd raiders too if required

 

 Just PM you.  What's your source?

Fantastic work Adywan - thank you so much for doing this!

Grabbed it, burnt it, watched it..!!!  Picture & sound quality on my PS3 are amazing.

Looking forward to the next one :)

Finally finished downloading this.  A big thanks to everyone uploading and seeding the torrent! :)  My dual layer DVD's have not arrived yet, so I've only been able to watch about half of it (they were just about to rough up the scanning crew when it quit playing).

My projector/viewing specs are above, so I won't reiterate that stuff..Here are my observations, but please note in advance that they are all very minor:

Picture quality was better than I expected.  The colors really do look nice, excellent work there, thanks!  The only time I thought it looked weird was when the red light was shining on Leia (when she is hiding and about to get stunned).. the red light had an unnatural glow to it.  But maybe it is supposed to look that way, I dunno.  Very minor.  Also, I am not 100% sure, but it seemed like "black" wasn't quite as black as it could have been, but if so, it wasn't off by much.

In the brighter scenes, the compression artifacts and static pixels are more noticeable, not much that can be done about this, of course.  The first time I saw any problems was in the white corridor smoke.  Then, when the droids were first on Tatooine.  There were probably more, but I was drawn into the movie, so again, minor.

One problem that seemed to persist throughout the movie was an occasional video stutter.  I had the player set to 24 fps mode, which the projector recognized.  Is the video also at that rate, or is it perhaps 25 fps (or maybe converted from 25 fps)? 

I'm curious.. how hard would it be to blend the subtitles in so that they don't have hard edges?  I could see the edges, as well as the thin black outline around them.  I should put in my GOUT disc and see what they look like on it, I can't remember :(.  The "Han shoots first" scenes blended right in, very nicely done.

Thanks again for doing this.  Definitely one to get if you have HD!   I enjoyed watching it (well, except for the Alderaan explosion ring, but that isn't your fault!). :)

Is ANH available on Usenet? I saw it on Demoid, but it's not available to non-registered users.