Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 413

So is the torrent on myspleen good?

With Multiupload, the reason JD(2) is grabbing multiple copies of the same file is because there are multiple (as in multi) sources for them with that service.

On the right side of the screen in JD, you'll see a listing of the various sites. Simply de-select all but one source that has all the files (in my case multiupload.nl), and you're good to go. 37 in all, 500 MB each, the last being slightly over 300. Most importantly, look for 17.9 GB total before instructing JD to start and everything will work. No captchas; just go and have a sandwich and depending on your connection speed, the MKV will be there soon. 

I spot-checked the file last night and it looks fantastic! Thank you, Harmy and all the people who worked hard to make this project a reality. For the first time since I was a 13 year old kid in 1977, I feel like I actually have a Technicolor print of the version I saw in theaters all those years ago. It's beautiful. The added bitrate does give it an edge over 2.1. It looks like film to me, albeit with some of the Lowry Digital "grain" still intact, but grain regardless. The fact that I can see the grain with such clarity is a testament to how clear this version is. Blu-ray has nothing on it, and I'd consider the quality to certainly be on-par with 1080p.

Regarding the color pallette, it seems pretty spot-on to what one would see with Technicolor, which seems to display slightly exaggerated colors due to the dye process. It's certainly more accurate than the "official" versions and looks like a theatrical print to me. Others may argue, but this is what film looks like, folks and until Disney commits the resources to reassemble this version from the OCN in 4K, I can't imagine it getting much better.  

As a small caution to those who may be burning the MKV right to Blu-ray, be prepared to brick one blank in the event your player requires a Blu-ray spec file structure in order to recognize the file. The physical optical drive on some players might require a very rigid structure within spec to work.

I don't know if my own player would play an MKV directly from disc. My current setup is a small portable Seagate backup drive (1 TB), connected via USB to my Blu-ray player. That works flawlessly, but I am planning to purchase a BRD burner for this and other projects.

I know this might require a little (gasp!) research and (gasp!) work, but the BR file structure doesn't appear to be too complicated. It's not much different from AVCHD, which is why 2.1 worked so well with so many players. For example, there are free programs out there that will mux MKV to .m2ts (TSMuxer), which is used by BRD. That might be the first and most complicated step in making this work on physical disc without compression. Have fun people. Maybe take a shot at designing your own personal menus. I might try that myself and see what I can come up with:)  

Downloading from the Spleen as we speak.

chyron8472, thanks for posting it there!

Harmy, thanks as always for your tireless work!

The Oppo BDP-83 does not support NTFS volumes, unfortunately.

yark said:

jdryyz said:

...the file shows up but then chokes on playback from my BDP-83. Sigh.

have you tried saving it to NTFS-formatted USB or esata storage media (not exceeding 2 tb capacity in any case) and attaching directly to oppo with no intervening media server? that's how yark rolls. or hopes to here.

I'm hoping to share out 2.5 via AVCHD on DL-DVD. Will this be possible by simply de-muxing enough audio tracks to reduce the file size or will a re-encode be necessary?

box said:

I'm hoping to share out 2.5 via AVCHD on DL-DVD. Will this be possible by simply de-muxing enough audio tracks to reduce the file size or will a re-encode be necessary?

Unfortunately the video track alone is bigger than a DL-DVD, so a re-encode will be inevitable.

box said:

I'm hoping to share out 2.5 via AVCHD on DL-DVD. Will this be possible by simply de-muxing enough audio tracks to reduce the file size or will a re-encode be necessary?

I think you'd be over the size limit if you stripped out all the audio, so a re-encode would be necessary. If memory serves, AVCHD doesn't handle DTS, so AC3 DD would be your options there. 

Why not just use 2.1's AVCHD in this case? It's already compressed and very close to 2.5 in content. 

johnlocke2342 said:

 

You can also use TSMuxer (cross plateforme tool) to turn the mkv into a Blu-ray (without the menus of course).

You're right. I had forgotten that TSMuxer has a Blu-ray setting. Thanks for the catch.

http://linkdecrypter.com/ extracted all the links from a copy and paste of the 37 multiupload links without fuss.

Not sure if all links were working, but certainly enough are to get all 37 rar files and extract the mkv successfully.

Can't stand special downloaders like jdownloader.

It's marvelous work Harmy, thanks.

If you can provide mkv files for the extras, I won't even need to get the eventual Bluray version as I consider menus relatively unimportant and content rules supreme.

ClownBD will also convert an mkv into Bluray structure, but if you are going to be playing lots of 720p mkv files, I recommend investing in a media player that can play mkv via USB.  Quite a few cheap Bluray players have satisfactory USB playback for 720p24 mkv upscaled to 1080p24.

waspattck said:

Why not just use 2.1's AVCHD in this case? It's already compressed and very close to 2.5 in content. 

That's probably what I'll end up doing, since I'm lazy, and I have no intention of buying a BD burner any time soon. That said, there's a part of me that wants to share the best possible version of the film I can.

I guess I'll have to teach myself how to package 2.1 in an ISO like 1.0. I couldn't burn the AVCHD directly in OSX last time I tried.

At any rate - Thanks so much for all your work, Pan Harmy. And also to all of you in the "Harmy Army" for helping here on the forums, and spreading his work on all channels. Kudos.

Harmy said:

@chyron: It will be mainly the extras. With the BD being one movie file only, it shouldn't be too hard to author in MultiAVCHD and then I can author the extras BD with some other software, as it won't require multiple audio options. I see little point to releasing the BD without the accompanying bonus disc, so it will all depend on how fast I can get the extras done.

I'm gonna take my time with them however, now that v2.5 is out as an MKV, I don't see any point to rushing the BD out - that was the whole point of releasing the MKV in the first place (you may recall, that I originally wasn't going to do an MKV for v2.5).

In regard to this, I'm working on the scripts for the extras now and I realized that sometimes it would be better to step out of a simple narration, like the one I did in the Souces Doc, and talk in first person as myself. Now, it would sound silly if I was doing the narration and then started talking in first person as Harmy, bit like interviewing myself :-D So, is there anyone here, with a nicely modulated voice, who would like to volunteer to record the narration for my mini-docs?

Sure, sounds fun. I've got a decent setup to do this too..

chyron8472 said:

box said:

 

I guess I'll have to teach myself how to package 2.1 in an ISO like 1.0. I couldn't burn the AVCHD directly in OSX last time I tried.  

Use ImgBurn to make ISOs. I've used other software, and it seems that ImgBurn really is the best. It seems cumbersome at first, but once you get used to the UI it really is pretty easy to use.

 

Thanks for the recommendation. I've actually used ImgBurn before - it's nice. I was just hoping I wouldn't have to spin up a Windows VM to package it.