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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *) — Page 93

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Oooh, a conspiracy! Lucasfilm offs or buys off the members who really get going on promising projects. I like it. Someone should do a lot of research and write a book. The Lucasmachine must be exposed!

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Rob said:

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Can't someone just take what's existing now and burn it to BD's? I'd pay 15 bucks for a BD copy even if all the fine touches weren't all done, 15 for each one.

 I couldn't agree more, that would be kick ass. Given that all we have to watch now is the shitty letterboxed bonus dvd discs, any improvement would be awesome. I would kill for a widescreen BD copy of these transfers, they would destroy those bonus discs. Those bonus discs are so gay.

Stinky and Rob back at the same time?

*speechless*

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Someone should definitely do this shit. 

After encoding the video in AVC and the audio in LPCM, if possible, it shouldn't be tough to fit on a single layer BD.

Winner winner chicken dinner?

No, winner winner Sheen dinner.

 

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Stinky is a complete FuckFace but he makes a good point. Wouldn't it be failry quick and painless to get these transfers on BD without cleaning them up any further? If someone doesn't get this done, it will be so gay.

HARMY RULES

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Every night I kneel by my bedside, clasp my hands and close my eyes tight, and pray to the ghost of George Lucas '77 that the XØ Project will be released one day.

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So who has the transfers right now? One person? Multiple people?

It shouldn't be a tough at all to get these on BD's... plenty of burners floating around now.

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But what's the point, if the image is sub-480?

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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I have an Oppo BDP-93. If someone tosses these pristine LD transfers onto BD's they'll look pretty damn good after my Oppo is done with them. With better-than-decent upscaling a sub-480 res can look surprisingly good. Looking good is relative, and when the alternative looks like shit on a stick by comparison it would look good.

The reason it has to be BD is because of space. Even after compression it wouldn't fit properly on a dual layer DVD. You can compress this with AVC and put each film onto its own BD - 25 gigs each should be plenty. Audio could use a lossless codec on BD, too.

What would be the point in not releasing it after going through all that shit with the X0 player to actually get the transfers?

Do you have some magical better option? A pristine 35mm print you're going to scan?

If this transfer is put onto a BD it would be the definitive version of the GOUT. Better than the shitty version included as an extra on those DVD's a few years back, especially considering that they were stored as 4:3 letterboxed so they're windowboxed when watching on an HDTV (which is kinda like watching the friggin' thing through a porthole.) It would be better than anything else out there.

To spend years getting the transfers and to stop at the final step, the easiest step, makes no sense at all... it wouldn't be hard to get these onto BD's.

Do you know of a version of the GOUT that's better than the X0's? I'd like to know.

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Zion said:

Sorry for dropping off the map the last couple of weeks. My internet went down at home and my modem still isn't working. I'm actually posting from a Kinko's right now because my cable modem is currently running at the blazing fast speed of about 56K. :| (January 19, 2011)

Anyone in contact with Zion knows if his computer situation has improved? Maybe someone can help him?

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Last online March 17th. He knows we want it. I almost feel like I'm part of a mob that wants to lynch the guy...

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Stinky-Dinkins said:

The reason it has to be BD is because of space. Even after compression it wouldn't fit properly on a dual layer DVD. You can compress this with AVC and put each film onto its own BD - 25 gigs each should be plenty. Audio could use a lossless codec on BD, too.

 Uh...you do realize the reason these are so large is because they're raw transfers? And I'm assuming there are multiple passes of each disc...and from what I can recall, transfers of more than one source per movie.

So throwing all of that onto a BluRay is not going to make them instantly watchable, it would only be a medium to transfer the data.

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Plus, a raw transfer will still not fit on a BD25.

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Raw transfers aren't THAT big.  If they're DV encoded AVI files it would be about 20Gb for the whole movie if they're SD.  A modest hard drive these days would easily hold multiple scans of all three movies, right?

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I remember seeing a picture of the RAW caps being spread out on at least 9 DVDs... whether they were single or dual-layer I do not know.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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http://www2.originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-X-Project-Laserdisc-on-Steroids-SEE-FIRST-POST-FOR-UPDATES/topic/3548/page/3/

November 1, 2005
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http://www2.originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-X-Project-Laserdisc-on-Steroids-SEE-FIRST-POST-FOR-UPDATES/post/151764/#TopicPost151764

 

They are 5's, and yes, that is the raw capture.

 

 

 

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-X-Project-Laserdisc-on-Steroids-SEE-FIRST-POST-FOR-UPDATES/post/302318/#TopicPost302318

December 1, 2007

Quote: "Bluray versions will be out first,you watch.

Wait I am wrong,sorry,Adywans's project will be first LOL."

 

[click the link to find out who was wearing their fortune teller hat that day!]

 

 

These still apply:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-X-Project-Laserdisc-on-Steroids-SEE-FIRST-POST-FOR-UPDATES/topic/3548/page/72/

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Asaki said:

So throwing all of that onto a BluRay is not going to make them instantly watchable.

 I'll throw you on a Blu Ray!

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Stinky if only you'd stuck around to begin with... ANYWAY. 8 x 5 = 40, so a DL blu-ray would be able to fit the raw capture. I don't know how it would look compressed to a single-layer.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Heh, I'm out of it for a little while and this thread explodes with talk of conspiracies and blu-ray requests.

I know everyone's waiting for the transfer files and I don't blame anyone for getting upset it's taking so long. The truth is I've been putting in 10-12 hour days at work the last couple months and projects like this haven't been at the top of my priority list.

Here's the deal. I'm currently RARing and PARing  the original X0 ANH transfer files and getting ready to upload them to a.b.starwars.

The original files we received from Laserman were AVIs encoded in HUFFYUV @23.976 fps and uncompressed PCM audio. The total file size is about 35GB (per film).

ESB and ROTJ will follow, though I will have to retrieve them from by backup discs first. And as I mentioned before, I am missing an entire LD side from ROTJ which was never sent to me, and may not exist anymore unless MeBeJedi was ever able to get it from Laserman.

If people really want it, I can upload a copy of the timecode print. (To clarify, the TC print was a 700MB DivX5 compressed version of the X0 transfer with burned-in timecode and we used it as a reference.)

 

I'm currently having some issues trying to create PAR2 files (I keep getting a "could not allocate output buffer" error in QuickPar). If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]

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I apologize for pestering when it appears you're busy, but I"m glad to know you're undertaking this seemingly arduous task. Thank you for letting us know!

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Zion said:

If people really want it, I can upload a copy of the timecode print. (To clarify, the TC print was a 700MB DivX5 compressed version of the X0 transfer with burned-in timecode and we used it as a reference.)

Yes! That would be cool! Please do!

Also glad to read about the lossless captures (but sad that I could never DL any that size, at least not within the a year or two). :O

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Hey Zion or anybody else can you use myspleen for the upload ? Not everybody can use newsgroups :-)