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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION — Page 326

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BRUUUUCE said:

I have tried every which way to get this to burn correctly and have been unsuccessful.

 

I don't really understand how there can be a problem.  The file should be an ISO.  You burn it with Imgburn, which pretty much takes care of all the details for you.  Tick the Verify box for confirmation that your disc's burnt correctly.

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TV's Frink said:


EDIT: Not quite fast enough, was I Ady?


Curse your metal body.

DE

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well, I don't have a dual disc burner, i was relying on my friend to do it. we downloaded the files via the torrent on demonoid. he said everytime he tried burning them to disc, he got errors while burning (on a pc)

for the heck of it, i took the files and tried burning them to a regular disc on my mac at work. i "opened" the rar file and got the corrected TS files. then i dragged both the original TS file and the corrected on into toast to burn the dvd. i thought i would get the error message saying there wasn't enough room to burn on a regular disc, but it started burning.

i think it compressed the files ... that's what it said at least. but when it verified the disc, it said  there was an error. i  thought it was a dud. i took it home anyway .. .tried tried ... it worked ... and  to be honest... it looks fantastic! all the menus work. but there's a problem. i can't select the dolby 5.1 in the menu and when i play the movie there are split-second dropouts in the audio throughout.

Any thoughts?

i'm so frustrated. isn't there a trading forum here where you could trade for these discs?

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The disk image does play alright off the hard disk it was downloaded onto though?

You didn't detect anything wrong with the actual ISO?

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BRUUUUCE said:

well, I don't have a dual disc burner

You have a DVD burner that is specifically not Dual-Layer? Wow. It must be an antique :P

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for the heck of it, i took the files and tried burning them to a regular disc on my mac at work. i "opened" the rar file and got the corrected TS files. then i dragged both the original TS file and the corrected on into toast to burn the dvd. i thought i would get the error message saying there wasn't enough room to burn on a regular disc, but it started burning.

i think it compressed the files ... that's what it said at least. but when it verified the disc, it said  there was an error. i  thought it was a dud. i took it home anyway .. .tried tried ... it worked ... and  to be honest... it looks fantastic! all the menus work. but there's a problem. i can't select the dolby 5.1 in the menu and when i play the movie there are split-second dropouts in the audio throughout.

Any thoughts?

It sounds like you got a different copy to what I found, which was an ISO of Revisited on Crapidshare. Are you trying the PAL or NTSC vesion?

And if the Apple burning app compressed the DVD9 into DVD5 size, then that would most likely explain why the verification failed, and may also explain the audio problems (if the compression isn't done well).

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BRUUUUCE said:

well, I don't have a dual disc burner, i was relying on my friend to do it. we downloaded the files via the torrent on demonoid. he said everytime he tried burning them to disc, he got errors while burning (on a pc)

for the heck of it, i took the files and tried burning them to a regular disc on my mac at work. i "opened" the rar file and got the corrected TS files. then i dragged both the original TS file and the corrected on into toast to burn the dvd.

Well you should have got an .ISO file when downloading. You say that you tried burning the files when in fact you should have just burned the .ISO. When you say you opened the "rar" i take it you meant the "ISO". Never unpack and iso file using winrar or other unzipping program. This caused problems with the disc when someone uploaded the unpacked folders to Demonoid and used winrar to unpack them. It caused me a huge nightmare trying to fix their mistake, especially with people contacting me saying i'd created a crap DVD that didn't work. If the one you got off demonoid is the unpacked version with the Audio_TS & Video_ts folders then just scrap that and head over to fanedit.info to download the correct ISO file from rapidshare . You can download both the single and dual layer versions from there

If you don't have a dual layer burner (yes that thing must be an antique) then just get DVDShrink and open the ISO file in that. Make sure all the subtitle and audio tracks are selected before shrinking the image to fit onto a single layer DVD. Now select the "create iso" as your output format in DVDshrink then burn the iso using IMGburn. Then try playing the burned dvd in your pc. If everything is fine on your pc but you are having the audio stuttering problem then i guess you have the NTSC and one of only a small handful of DVD players that doesn't like the AC3 audio track and it won't matter if someone burns you a copy because you will have the same problems.

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adywan said:

BRUUUUCE said:

well, I don't have a dual disc burner, i was relying on my friend to do it. we downloaded the files via the torrent on demonoid. he said everytime he tried burning them to disc, he got errors while burning (on a pc)

for the heck of it, i took the files and tried burning them to a regular disc on my mac at work. i "opened" the rar file and got the corrected TS files. then i dragged both the original TS file and the corrected on into toast to burn the dvd.

Well you should have got an .ISO file when downloading. You say that you tried burning the files when in fact you should have just burned the .ISO. When you say you opened the "rar" i take it you meant the "ISO". Never unpack and iso file using winrar or other unzipping program. This caused problems with the disc when someone uploaded the unpacked folders to Demonoid and used winrar to unpack them. It caused me a huge nightmare trying to fix their mistake, especially with people contacting me saying i'd created a crap DVD that didn't work. If the one you got off demonoid is the unpacked version with the Audio_TS & Video_ts folders then just scrap that and head over to fanedit.info to download the correct ISO file from rapidshare . You can download both the single and dual layer versions from there.

Ady,

I got your ANH:R dual-layer ISO off of Rapidshare and it was compressed into rar files. Around 80 of them if I recall. I believe all of the Rapidshare files of your DVD-9 on the web are compressed zip files.

They would need to be unzipped in order to get the actual ISO, would they not? Or are you talking about opening the ISO with some other program?

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Darth Hade said:

They would need to be unzipped in order to get the actual ISO, would they not? Or are you talking about opening the ISO with some other program?

WinRar associates itself with .ISO files because it's too damned stupid to realise that they can be burnt directly to discs, or mounted with DaemonTools etc.

So yeah, if you get the rar files from Crapidshare, you need to decompress them, but only once, and you should end up with an ISO, not VIDEO_TS.

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So, to clarify...

Download 80 RAR files from RS.  Unzip #1, that will jump to the next to the next to the next and create one 8gig ISO file.  Burn the ISO with IMGBurn ("Write image file to disc") and you should have a working disc.

Tell your friend to burn the disc at the slowest possible speed.  Some burners and machines have trouble burning dual layer discs at higher speeds.  You might also want to disable things like virus scan, screen savers and any other system activity based programs that run on startup.  They've caused burning problems on occasion too.

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It also doesn't hurt to buy really good blank DVD+R DLs.  Many common brands like Memorex can have failure rates as high as 50%.

Verbatim is the best way to go.

Dr. M

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Doctor M said:

Verbatim is the best way to go.

I've found Verbatim writable optical media to be reliably crap. The dyes are too dark for most players.

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Sorceror said:

Doctor M said:

Verbatim is the best way to go.

I've found Verbatim writable optical media to be reliably crap. The dyes are too dark for most players.

I've never heard of that problem. The dyes are as dark as the Taiyo Yuden DVD-R's that are said to be the most compatible media on the market and i've never found a player that refuses to play discs i have burned using either one of those media. I've never had any problem with compatibility ever with a correctly burned Verbatim or TY. The only times i've ever heard anyone saying that the verbatim discs won't play is either when they have burned a DL on too high a speed, which you should never do or the ones that are manufactured in India, and that is a problem with the quality of the dye and not the darkness. PLus some people don't bother to update the firmware on their DVD-RW drives so when a new version of the dye comes out the burner craps out with the discs

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Doctor M said:

Verbatim is the best way to go.

Agreed 100%.

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Firmware upgrades are more likely the answer.  Verbatim may work better for some but no all of us have the same drives...so it won't be the same for everyone.  I've burned 2 AVCHD discs on Sony Dual-Layered discs and had NO problem burning or playing.

I actually have some Taiyo Yuden discs and those are for my special videos.....like Adywan's stuff.

Anyways.....not everyone's experiences will be the same.

 

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Burning at the slowest speed will only result in errors, you should burn at the speed the drive is rated for.

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Drives work at a range of speeds, and on many occassions I've told people to burn at the slowest available speed and it's solved playback problems on DVD players. If the highest speed was the best, why provide the others?

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Sumguy21 said:

Burning at the slowest speed will only result in errors, you should burn at the speed the drive is rated for.

Completely false. If the slowest speed produces errors on your discs, then your burner is faulty. Higher speeds are otherwise always more likely to produce difficult-to-read discs.

Also note that supported burning speeds are encoded onto blank writeable media too.

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JasonN said:

Doctor M said:

Verbatim is the best way to go.

Agreed 100%.

 What worth Sony may I ask ? That's what I use. I have no problem but I'm not burning very much so to say.

I'd like to use Verbatim but there are only the ones manufactured in India around me...

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Sumguy21 said:

Burning at the slowest speed will only result in errors, you should burn at the speed the drive is rated for.

Completely false. If the slowest speed produces errors on your discs, then your burner is faulty. Higher speeds are otherwise always more likely to produce difficult-to-read discs.

Also note that supported burning speeds are encoded onto blank writeable media too.

I know, it's surprising and not what you'd expect, but try it yourself. Burn two identical discs, one at the lowest speed and one at the speed its rated for and compare the quality of the burn with a program like Nero CD Speed. I think you'll find in most cases that the slow burn produces worse results.

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And yet see above where my anecdotal evidence says the opposite ;)

DE

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I remember starting a thread to discuss the burn speed issue a while ago (y'know, in the correct forum)...

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Is there any chance to release an upscale HD version from the existing DVD9 material? There are many great up scaling programs, so it is not an impossible task. And it would be a great opportunities for Ady, to make some little additional change which was not so great. In my point of view, there is only one....the lightning needle of the sphere droid, and perhaps the changed dialogs.

 

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Zééé said:

Is there any chance to release an upscale HD version from the existing DVD9 material? There are many great up scaling programs, so it is not an impossible task. And it would be a great opportunities for Ady, to make some little additional change which was not so great. In my point of view, there is only one....the lightning needle of the sphere droid, and perhaps the changed dialogs.

I have no idea about upscaling, but I can tell you that Adywan has already said he's not making any changes.

It's done because it's done.

Also, you can't say "there is only one" and then list two.  ;-)

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Is there any chance to release an upscale HD version from the existing DVD9 material? There are many great up scaling programs


Unless your TV is particularly bad at it, I'd leave it to do the scaling. Or buy a new TV ;)

DE