maggot_brain said:adywan said:oh_riginal said:adywan said:thats a lot of damaged files. what usenet provider are you using? Ep1 was only posted a couple of weeks ago so it should still be complete even with an ISPs service.
usenet.com server, downloading through grabit.
i would switch your provider if its giving you that many incomplete files with something so recent. i use astraweb. i'm only paying $11 per month for their unlimited service through their special offer. its very rare i get any incompletes
I second this. Also Astraweb are increasing their retention to 365 days.
Okay, astraweb it is. Let's see if this works out better!
Update: And I had no issues with astraweb or quickpar. Thanks so much! Loving the quality of the surround sound and picture!
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Just had to pop by and say a huuuuuuuge thank you to Adywan for doing this - I finished grabbing ESB yesterday and the quality is outstanding. Han, unbelievably, seems to have stopped wearing red lipstick! Who'd have thought?! And Boba's voice is back - yay!
So a heartfelt thanks to you Ady, for what is now the definitive version of my favourite ever film
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Hi all,
A huge thanks to Adywan for all of his hard work! These are my first foray into AVCHD, and my player is known to be rather finicky with the format. I just finished watching ANH, and the picture is astounding! I noticed a couple of things which I attribute to my player (Pioneer Elite 05FD), and not the disc (I really hope I do not have a bad download). First, lip sync was lost multiple times (to the tune of 1-2 seconds), and then corrected itself after a scene or two (?!?). The main one was repeatable: when R2 is sacked by the Jawas, the sound goes out of sync when the head Jawa jumps out with the EMP gun (or whatever it is) and fires. The audio is about a second behind the picture (so the classic "thud" when R2 falls over is late). By the next scene, all is right again. Second, there were several random pauses (similar to a layer change on SD-DVD) or what looked like bad jump edits (not repeatable). I would think if the download (or DVD burn) were corrupt, the disc would not play at all. Thoughts?
Thanks again to Adywan!
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Vader424242 said:Hi all,
A huge thanks to Adywan for all of his hard work! These are my first foray into AVCHD, and my player is known to be rather finicky with the format. I just finished watching ANH, and the picture is astounding! I noticed a couple of things which I attribute to my player (Pioneer Elite 05FD), and not the disc (I really hope I do not have a bad download). First, lip sync was lost multiple times (to the tune of 1-2 seconds), and then corrected itself after a scene or two (?!?). The main one was repeatable: when R2 is sacked by the Jawas, the sound goes out of sync when the head Jawa jumps out with the EMP gun (or whatever it is) and fires. The audio is about a second behind the picture (so the classic "thud" when R2 falls over is late). By the next scene, all is right again. Second, there were several random pauses (similar to a layer change on SD-DVD) or what looked like bad jump edits (not repeatable). I would think if the download (or DVD burn) were corrupt, the disc would not play at all. Thoughts?
Thanks again to Adywan!
I assure you the whole movie is in sync. I just double checked the section you mentioned and it is in sync. This could be down to a player issue. But the random pauses sounds more like a media/ burn issue to me. When burning any DL media make sure you burn on the lowest possible speed. I would recommend using IMGBurn to burn the disc as its probably the best burner and its free. Also i would recommend Verbatim as these seem to have the best player compatibility when compared to other cheaper media. but you need to be careful when buying DL verbatim. make sure that the discs are the ones manufactured in Singapore. If they are manufactured in India then they are a pile of shit frankly. But the sync issues seems to be that the player doesn't like the 24fps encode. you could try changing the framerate of the movie to see if that works. I posted a way of doing it that only takes a few minutes and you don't have to re-encode the movie. It starts here and if your still having problems then just keep reading on as there are a few more tips:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/THE-STAR-WARS-SAGA-1080P-AVCHD-DVD-9-for-PS3-Blu-Ray-players-Episode-1-available-now/post/343870/#post343870
To do all this you will need to mount the AVCHD iso image using daemontools or something similar and then the MT2S file can be located in the BDMV>STREAM folder. If your PC can't recognise the image after mounting then you will need to install the UDF 2.50 driver first.
This can be downloaded here:
http://files.digital-digest.com/downloads/articles/XBOX360.HD-DVDRom.UDF.Reader.v2.5.WindowsXP-BluePrint.rar
hope this helps
adywan said:I assure you the whole movie is in sync. I just double checked the section you mentioned and it is in sync. This could be down to a player issue ... But the sync issues seems to be that the player doesn't like the 24fps encode.
I thought as much that the player might be at fault for the sync issues. As for the 24 FPS, I am currently playing it back at 1080i/60, so would that even come into play?
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adywan said:When burning any DL media make sure you burn on the lowest possible speed.
Unless, like me, you're forced to burn at a higher speed because you keep getting a stupid 'power calibration error.' Even a restart didn't help last time. I burned at 8x and the disc turned out just fine, but I don't want to have to do that all the time. I usually burn DLs at either 2.4x or 4x. Stupid computer...
I have a Sony BDPS-350 and the exact same thing happens at the same points in the movie . Is there any players that this doesnt happen with ?. Adywans Empire plays perfectly though .
Panasonic BD-55 plays them perfect.
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As does the BD-60, and indeed PowerDVD when I mounted the iso to check it out before burning it to disc.
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GREAT job adywan with Episode I... Looks fantastic! Cannot wait for you to finish the rest of the Saga (should hold me over until the Blu-Ray releases).
Yancy
Those outside shots on Tatooine look especially nice. It's not perpetual dusk now.
Awesome touch-ups Ady.
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I'm curious... does anyone know if the original theatrical prequels had the various tints? I definitely think Adywan's versions look more natural, but am wondering if the original unaltered video color timing is in line with what George Lucas intended.
Murry Sparkles said:I have a Sony BDPS-350 and the exact same thing happens at the same points in the movie . Is there any players that this doesnt happen with ?. Adywans Empire plays perfectly though .
I also have a Sony BSPS350 and have exactly the same problem in exactly the same place. It only takes pausing it, nudging it a few frames, and pressing play again to get it back in sync, but it is an odd one that.
Adywan, will Return Of The Jedi avchd be availble soon ?.
I think Ady is holding off on RotJ until he's ready to start work on the Revisited version. Apparently the colors are really bad in RotJ, or at least a lot more work to fix than the prequels.
Ady, are these going to be the color bases for the Revisited versions? Do you have the hard drive space to keep all these HD files around for x years?
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Sweet! Please keep 'em coming! Can't wait for AotC! Quick question, Ady - Any chance you'd be willing to post an HD version of your re-rotoed ANH opening shot? What I initially did was down-res the HD version and append the opening shot of ANH:R onto it to get rid of those awful, dull, streaky, decaying remains of laser bolts, then mixed in your ANH:R audio for the sequence when I discovered a few extra laser bolts; would be REALLLLLLY nice to have the same thing on the HD :)
Hi guys, can anyone help out a female Star Wars fan ( am i the only one here ? ) i have Adywans episode 4 avchd which is beautiful , but unfortunatley i also have a Sony s-350 blu ray player ( ill never buy Sony again ) which has the sync / audio problems . Would anyone be able to correct or burn me a copy with the 23.976 frame rate ? . Anything can be worked out , PM me PLEASE.
You're absolutely positive the burn was 100% verified, Boba Fett's Wife? If you didn't, try it with imageburn, as it seems to have the strictest verification (moreso than Nero). I grabbed a copy of RotS 1080p which had various sync issues until I reburned and got a no-error run through Imageburn. I would have thought the Sony would be at least as solid as my Samsung 1500.
Im 100 % sure its the Sony at fault. Checking through past entries into this forum i have noticed other people having the same problem they also have the Sony 350. Empire was burned after episode 4 and its perfect. So can someone PLEASE HELP with this problem !!! thanks guys
doubleofive said:I think Ady is holding off on RotJ until he's ready to start work on the Revisited version. Apparently the colors are really bad in RotJ, or at least a lot more work to fix than the prequels.
Ady, are these going to be the color bases for the Revisited versions? Do you have the hard drive space to keep all these HD files around for x years?
The colours in ROTJ are god awful. I have been editing the lightsaber duel for shits and giggles and it has proven to be very difficult because of how dark and blue it is. But I did manage to make lukes saber thinner so now I can overlay it with a very sleak blade. Vaders saber was already fairly thin so I don't need to do as much work on his.
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BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:Im 100 % sure its the Sony at fault. Checking through past entries into this forum i have noticed other people having the same problem they also have the Sony 350. Empire was burned after episode 4 and its perfect. So can someone PLEASE HELP with this problem !!! thanks guys
it is a problem with the sony 350, funny thing is the PS3 plays it perfectly! so its specific to the 350 and not sonys in general the old avchd work around used to be extract the *.m2ts file from the stream folder of the disc and burn it directly to a dvd with no folders but still in udf 2.5 and it would play not got round to trying it with ep 4 and the sony 350 though! but might be worth a try
BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:Im 100 % sure its the Sony at fault. Checking through past entries into this forum i have noticed other people having the same problem they also have the Sony 350.
It's not necessarily limited to the Sony 350. I have a Pioneer Elite 05FD, which is known to be kinda finicky when it comes to less-than-perfect blu-rays, and AVCHD encodes. In my case, I do not believe it do be the disc (or burn, for that matter), but my player's inability to handle AVCHD as well as other players (such as the afore mentioned Pannys).
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Vader424242 said:It's not necessarily limited to the Sony 350. I have a Pioneer Elite 05FD
Color me green with envy.
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