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THE STAR WARS SAGA - 1080P AVCHD DVD-9 for PS3 & Blu-Ray players - Episodes 1, 4 & 5 available now — Page 40

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Hey guys, you'll have to forgive my ignorance but I have a few questions to ask since I'm new here. Actually I'll be honest, I joined these boards for one specific reason : get my hands on Blu-ray playable versions of the Star Wars movies by Adywan. Now, I own all films already on DVD (just ordered Ep. IV-V-VI this morning), but I have no idea what's going on with this project, how far Adywan is in it, or where and how to get the files needed to make myself these discs and/or what I need to do that.

 

Could someone please update me in what's going on? Thanks very much in advance.

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Episodes 4 and 5 are finished and already finished, you can dowload them. As for Episode 6, Ady's still working on it, that movies a mess with the colors (He's also cdorrected the colors in the releases as you've probly noticed, so no more blue tints to the movies)

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Docta Nick said:

Episodes 4 and 5 are finished and already finished, you can dowload them. As for Episode 6, Ady's still working on it, that movies a mess with the colors (He's also cdorrected the colors in the releases as you've probly noticed, so no more blue tints to the movies)

 

Oh, thanks! But where do I go to download these files? I can't seem to find them in this thread.

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You won't find links to downloads here on this site.

You might try putting some of the title of this thread into the search engine of your choice.

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Bingowings said:

You won't find links to downloads here on this site.

You might try putting some of the title of this thread into the search engine of your choice.

 

 Ah! I see. Should've tried that in the first place. Thanks!

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Come on gents !! Is there no here that can help a Star Wars chick with help in getting a version of Episode 4 with the 24frames converted to 23.976 frames ! Is there any gentlemen here ?.

Help me  ** INSERT YOURE NAME ** youre my only hope !

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BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:

Come on gents !! Is there no here that can help a Star Wars chick with help in getting a version of Episode 4 with the 24frames converted to 23.967 frames ! Is there any gentlemen here ?.

Help me  ** INSERT YOURE NAME ** youre my only hope !

 

What exactly do you want,someone to fix this and reburn it to a DL DVD and then send it to you? DL's are still kind of expensive,especially the good Verbatim DL's.

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dark_jedi said:
BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:

Come on gents !! Is there no here that can help a Star Wars chick with help in getting a version of Episode 4 with the 24frames converted to 23.967 frames ! Is there any gentlemen here ?.

Help me  ** INSERT YOURE NAME ** youre my only hope !

 

What exactly do you want,someone to fix this and reburn it to a DL DVD and then send it to you? DL's are still kind of expensive,especially the good Verbatim DL's.

 

I don't actually understand her question.  Is she implying that the frame rate is wrong on the AVCHD, or saying that she wants an NTSC film conversion? If the latter, what would be the point?  You'd lose the high def, wouldn't you?

I don't get it.

edited -  Okay, I read back through the thread.  I understand now.  I've never heard of a blu ray player that has problems with 24 fps.  I always thought 23.967 frames was just rounded up to 24 fps.  Never realized there was much of a difference.

I thought all blu rays/AVCHDs were straight 24 fps.  Can anyone explain this further?

 

Sorry for going off topic, but the issue has been raised...

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NTSC video was originally 30fps, but when color was introduced, this was changed to 29.97 to make room for the added information.  In order for film to be telecine'd to 29.97 fps from 24 fps, it first needs to be slowed down ever so slightly to 23.976, which is "progressive" NTSC.  For some reason, this standard (23.976 and 29.97) was kept the same for broadcast HD content (probably to keep compatibility with standard NTSC).

Blu-Ray has the capability of utilizing true 24fps content, but some players don't like it and won't display it properly.  Ady encoded ANH and ESB at true 24fps, but it seems that now he's releasing them at 23.976 in order to improve compatibility.  A smart move, in my opinion - the difference isn't particularly noticeable anyway.

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Thanks for the lesson, ChainsawAsh!  :-)  My player seems fine with true 24 fps so I far prefer that, but it's good that everyone can get to watch these.

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ChainsawAsh thank you !  that basically explains everything but just to explain what happens read on. Some of us have problems at the same point in the movie when r2 d2 is getting watched by the jawa's the picture and sound go out of sync big style.Sometimes the picture freezes and the sound runs on . At the moment it only  seems to happen to Sony and Pioneer blu ray players . Adywan did explain how to fix this but it all went straight over my head thats why i was asking if anyone can help or knows how to fix this problem. I wouldnt ask anybody to do it for nothing but i dont think i can openly mention money on these forums .

                               

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BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:

I wouldnt ask anybody to do it for nothing but i dont think i can openly mention money on these forums .

                              

Er...I think you just did. 

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Looks like I have the same issue.  I burned Ep 4 ages ago and only watched the first few mintues to see if it worked.  Now I watch through it, the audio does go out of sync at the point you mentioned.  I have a Pioneer 51FD. 

 

I'm not the most technical person, but 'll have a look at Adywan's instructions and see if I can get it to work.  If so, I'll try to help Boba Fett's Wife too.  (feels weird saying that)

 

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TV's Frink said:
BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:

I wouldnt ask anybody to do it for nothing but i dont think i can openly mention money on these forums .

                              

Er...I think you just did. 

But i didnt mention paying  money to someone .

 

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BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:

Adywan did explain how to fix this but it all went straight over my head

 

Not just me then?

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BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:
TV's Frink said:
BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:

I wouldnt ask anybody to do it for nothing but i dont think i can openly mention money on these forums .

                              

Er...I think you just did. 

But i didnt mention paying  money to someone .

 

True.  Perhaps you can openly mention money on the forum after all.

 

The U.S. $5 bill is my favorite paper currency.  There, I've said it.

 

Sorry.  Back on topic...

 

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No; I'm pretty sure it hasn't.  It's still on alt.binaries.starwars though. 

 

Signing up for newsgroups is well worth it and easier than it seems.  You could grab all three AVCHDs and ANHR PAL DVD 9 to boot, along with some other lovely items, such as dark_jedi's wonderful anamorphic versions of the original trilogy.  Just a thought!  :-)

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Chewtobacca said:

No; I'm pretty sure it hasn't.  It's still on alt.binaries.starwars though. 

 

Signing up for newsgroups is well worth it and easier than it seems.  You could grab all three AVCHDs and ANHR PAL DVD 9 to boot, along with some other lovely items, such as dark_jedi's wonderful anamorphic versions of the original trilogy.  Just a thought!  :-)

 

 Thanks but an extra expense and trouble that's not needed.  I'll just patiently wait for the eventual torrent or find a kind soul to send me a copy.

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Pssst..Giganews has a free trial large enough to grab a few of the harder to find items.  It's WAY faster than torrents (for example, I grabbed both ANH HD and ESB HD today, and am plowing through some other stuff I wanted to get a hold of too), and ends up being more economical if your ISP caps transfer amounts, as you're only recieving, not sending to other peers.  Just thought I'd mention it from one who till recently was afraid of bothering with Newz.

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I had the same fear until a couple of weeks ago, INv8r_ZIM, and I'm so glad I took the trouble to overcome it.  I got all seven movies I mentioned above for $11, and that's about the cost of a single DVD or a decent bottle of wine. 

If people really want all these things, without waiting ages for them to appear on torrent, they have to take steps to get them.  I understand the reluctance; I really do: I used torrent for years rather than learn to use rapidshare or newsgroups, but now I honestly wonder why I waited.

 

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sorry to here about the issues you are having. I do have an idea how to fix this for you.

Download TSMuxer. Load the .m2ts file into it. untick the main video file and select demux to demux all the audio tracks. Once this is done retick the video file and remove all the other tracks (subs too i'm afraid). keep TSMuxer open.

Now you'll need Besweet to import the audio tracks into to convert them to 23.976fps. load each audio file into besweet individually and select ac3 as the output. Now for the 5.1 track you need to click on the "ac3 & ogg" tab. change the bitrate to 640 and click back on the besweet tab. now tick "change framerate" and input 24000 into the first box and 23976 into the second. now output your 5.1 audio track. now for the 2 other audio tracks do the same as above but change the bitrate to 192.

Now you have your new audio tracks import them all back into TSMuxer. Make sure that the 5.1 track is the first audio track in the list below the video file. Now click on the video stream to highlight it. Tick the "change fps" box and change the value to "24000/1001". This will just change the header in the video to play at 23.976fps and doesn't add or remove any frames. Now select "create bluray" as the output and create your folders. Once this is done open imgburn and import both the BDMV & Certificate folders and change the udf file system to 2.50 and burn. everything else should be done automatically by Imgburn.

Hope this helps

 

Okay, I followed these steps and the audio and video are back in sync.  Actually I think they are possibly still a frame or two out if you look very closely, but nothing that you'd notice unless you really looked.  Funnily enough the moment when the Jawas jump R2 seems to be pivotal somehow as I can still hear him fall before he is seen to fall on screen.  Weird!  Especially as all the other effects are in sync.

 

Unfortunately there is now popping in the audio, which wasn't there before, although the audio is not noticeably quiet. I'm not 100% clear on the instructions for using eac3, which followed.  Can anyone explain them more clearly?  I wouldn't even attempt to use the program without a GUI, as I'm at the limits of my current technical know-how at the moment.

 

I had to take the ac3.dll from the latest beta of Besweet and use it with the latest stable build, as my copy was missing an ac3.dll.  Could this have affected the audio? 

 

Thanks for any help whatsoever.

 

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just

signed up to giganews (14 day 10gb free trial)

 downloaded grabit

set it to download ep1

watched an episode of dollhouse

came back to pc checked it downloaded ok

cancelled giganews no payment taken (just dont go over the 10gb allowance)

now burning to disc :) thx ady

 

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Okay.  I followed the steps about converting the audio to 25 fps in Besweet - no probs.

 

I'm now using a GUI of eac3 to convert from 25 to 23.976 fps.

 

Is it okay to decode using libav/ffmpeg?

 

Can someone confirm the runtime for me?   1:59:35?

 

PLEASE HELP!