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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 248

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For the record, obtaining this is just illegal no matter what or how many official versions you have.

That said, it's less blatant if you have the sources too (i.e., better have both the BD and the GOUT as a minimum).  And usually no one cares so long as there's no exchange of money (this is why for example it's rare for an honest fansubber to be taken down).

Me?  I don't give.  If it's worth the download, it's worth the download.

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It is less immoral if you own more of the versions laid out here. But of course that has limits. The HD master of 2004 and DTV versions of the 1997 SEs has never been released on any home format (though I guess having cable sort of helps) and of course the LDs...are the LDs. And yeah, it's illegal anyway you slice it. Honestly, I do not care.

And dudes, chill. The 640kbps track has not been released, to my knowledge, and neither has the 448kbps. I just took another ac3 I had lying around and renamed it to make things clear.

The fixed German and Spanish tracks *have* been released (check teh) but an MKV is not forthcoming. You can have to use the same process I outlined in my post above.

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Oldfan said:

And does this: Fixed_DeEdv2.0

already include the corrected German and Spanish Soundtracks?


No it doesn't. You need to download "DeEd2.0_Fixed_Spanish_Dub.ac3" and "DeEd2.0_Fixed_German_Dub.ac3" as well.

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Oldfan said:

I'm very confused at this point so forgive me for asking this. Is the v2.0 MKV (the 15GB version) only affected by the German and Spanish soundtracks out-of-sync, or is the MKV also affected by other audio issues? I hear other issues are being discussed but I'm not clear if it affects just the AVCHD ot the MKV also.

 

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-REMASTERED-is-now-officially-released/post/594217/#TopicPost594217

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ww12345 said:

I just wanted to make sure that Harmy and h_h didn't get the short end of the stick - they devoted hundreds (if not thousands) of hours making this for us.

Thousands, definitely thousands ;-)

But yeah, what I meant was I wasn't going to reupload the whole MKV, I'm just going to link to the fixed audio files and everyone can mux them in themselves.

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Harmy shouldn't be expected to re-upload the MKV, because doing so ties up his machine for days.  It might be a good idea for someone to do it, though, so that this edit is always seen in the very best possible quality - especially by Lucas apologists.

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I can talk to walking_dork about nuking the current MKV and muxing one with all the audio fixes, but that'll feel a bit slimy in some way.

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My wife and I watched the mkv last night. I had really been looking forward to it. Our projector is only 480p, but it still looked incredible. Everything was seamless. v1.0 was quite impressive and I enjoyed it very much, but v2.0 is a whole other level. Major thanks to harmy and the others involved.

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It's up to you guys if you want to reupload it but I'd like for the MKV to be taken down when the BD is out.

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Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I am (VERY SLOWLY) downloading the covers and wanted to ask, are they already at the proper size for a printer to produce them for a BD case?  Or, will they need to be resized?

I didn't do any resizing and they fit the BD case perfectly.

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Harmy, out of curiosity are you going to release MKVs for ESB and ROTJ when they are done?  I wasn't sure if you would bother since the AVCHD quality came out so much better than you had anticipated. 

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pvanb said:

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I am (VERY SLOWLY) downloading the covers and wanted to ask, are they already at the proper size for a printer to produce them for a BD case?  Or, will they need to be resized?

I didn't do any resizing and they fit the BD case perfectly.

Thanks for the reply.  Did you just open the images (like with Image Viewer or the like) and print, or did you take them into a certain program, like for disc labeling and such?

It’s really sad when the “creative minds” behind something we hold dear are also guilty of its destruction.

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Yeah, that's the idea behind taking it down eventually, I don't intend to do MKV for the other two. If someone specifically needs the MKV format, they can always remux the AVCHD's or BD's m2ts file to MKV and otherwise thinking back, it seems to have been pointless to rush out the MKV when the BD will be using the same stream and the AVCHD looks very good (personally, I can't tell the difference between the MKV and AVCHD).

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Thanks for answering my questions about the confusion.

I take it then that "Harmy_DeEd_v2_h_h_5.1_fixed" is the new fixed 5.1 audio track? It looks like it's still being uploaded if that's the track I want.


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Harmy said:

It's up to you guys if you want to reupload it but I'd like for the MKV to be taken down when the BD is out.

I'd prefer otherwise. For folks moving in all-digital realm, the MKV takes up less space and doesn't pretend to be physical.

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Again, what's stopping you from remuxing one of the other releases to mkv if you specifically want that container?

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IMHO taking it down makes little sense. Being able to enjoy BD quality without having a BD player or having to download an inevitably larger, less 'desktop-friendly' file is a nice touch, so it would nice to have that option, but even if you don't think so, and can't tell the difference in quality between the AVCHD and the MKV, taking down what has already been released will just make it harder for people from here to get their hands on it for a short time; it's in the wild and will eventually make its way everywhere, and it's likely enough that the Bluray would itself be converted to MKV and shared in that format regardless (I have seen several different MKV torrents of the 1.0s).

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timdiggerm said:

Harmy said:

It's up to you guys if you want to reupload it but I'd like for the MKV to be taken down when the BD is out.

I'd prefer otherwise. For folks moving in all-digital realm, the MKV takes up less space and doesn't pretend to be physical.

Very much agreed. Why nuke the mkv? The mkv is perfect or those of us with media players, and there's nothing wrong with the mkv other than the audio which can be easily muxed in. It seems a shame to nuke it when it's the preferred format by many of us.

 

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Harmy said:

Yeah, that's the idea behind taking it down eventually, I don't intend to do MKV for the other two. If someone specifically needs the MKV format, they can always remux the AVCHD's or BD's m2ts file to MKV and otherwise thinking back, it seems to have been pointless to rush out the MKV when the BD will be using the same stream and the AVCHD looks very good (personally, I can't tell the difference between the MKV and AVCHD).

But then we're getting a lesser quality mkv by creating an mkv from the AVCHD unlike this where the mkv is higher quality. Why the hate for mkv? It's the perfect format for viewing on media players. Myself I want to watch this on my HDTV and the mkv can easily play on either my media players or my blu-ray player which supports mkv or even my tv itself which also plays mkv.

 

 

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But a high quality MKV can be created from the Bluray.

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Oldfan said:

But then we're getting a lesser quality mkv by creating an mkv from the AVCHD unlike this where the mkv is higher quality. Why the hate for mkv? It's the perfect format for viewing on media players. Myself I want to watch this on my HDTV and the mkv can easily play on either my media players or my blu-ray player which supports mkv or even my tv itself which also plays mkv.

Then create it from the Blu-Ray instead of the AVCHD.... 

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I was just looking at the comparison shots posted between v1 and v2. Many of the shots actually look like the black levels are totally crushed - like take a look at the shots of the Millennium Falcon docked on the Death Star (shots 72 & 73, 80 & 81) - tons of detail is just gone, lost in shadow, and in shots 80 & 81 the door on the left in the background is almost impossible to see. And in the shot of Obi-Wan early on (shots 22 and 23), the v1 looks nice but v2 is totally blown out, with all detail in the background completely lost in a sea of white, and the colors look terrible compared to v1.

 

Is this just unavoidable due to the different sources used for v2? I don't mean this to sound like a criticism, I'm just curious why such a difference in quality- to my eyes many of the v1 shots have more background visible, even though the v2 are clearly sharper. In those shots, is this just how it looked originally, and we're just used to seeing tweaked versions over the years, or are those shots just due to limited available sources? It seems in the shots I mentioned above, v1 looks far better overall.

 

 

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delusions_of_grandeur said:

Oldfan said:

But then we're getting a lesser quality mkv by creating an mkv from the AVCHD unlike this where the mkv is higher quality. Why the hate for mkv? It's the perfect format for viewing on media players. Myself I want to watch this on my HDTV and the mkv can easily play on either my media players or my blu-ray player which supports mkv or even my tv itself which also plays mkv.

Then create it from the Blu-Ray instead of the AVCHD.... 

Right, except then we have to download a full blu-ray and do the conversion, where for this I just had to download the MKV, which has excellent quality yet I don't have to download the huge blu-ray. The mkv is the perfect compromise between quality and file size - much smaller than the blu-ray yet very close in quality. The whole point is many will not want to download a full blu-ray when the mkv would do fine. I don't even have a blu-ray burner so I'd have to download the blu-ray just to convert it and then delete it.