Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 415

Just wanted to say thank you to harmy: I became a fan of the movie BECAUSE OF your job restoring it through the years.  It's stunning what you have accomplished here... A true work of love and genius... :)

Harmy,  I'm admittedly as excited to see your bonus stuff as I am to see the finished product!  I can't wait to see how you got everything together!!!

Harmy said:

OK, Mavimao, I'll be sending you the scripts as I finish them :-)

As to the third track, I tested the MKV in my Samsung BD Player and it plays just fine, including the mono mix, so there's probably nothing technically wrong with the track and your hardware players probably just don't support DTS mono. If I knew this, it would have been good to include the mono mix in AC3 (the one in the AVCHD is only like 100MB) but it's too late now.

I have a different problem though and that is that my BD player only shows ten audio tracks (and for some reason, it shows the 1st nine and the last one). I hope this is just the player's restriction for MKV and not some general BD format restriction. I can't remember if any of my commercial BDs has more than 10 language tracks, but the most I can recall is around 8. This could be why Encore won't import more than 8 tracks. I hope not.

EDIT: I just found a commercial BD that has over 12 audio tracks, so it should be fine.

@michaeldc: There will be a nice menu and more lossless audio options on the BD, so that would be the only real difference.

Regarding track 3 - I extracted track 3 and looked at it separately in mediainfo, and here is what is listed:

Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile                           : MA / Core
File size                                : 889 MiB
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable

Audio
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile                           : MA / Core
Mode                                     : 16
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : Unknown / 639 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossless / Lossy

It's 2 channels - so I don't see why my media player would play 2-channel stereo DTS-HD-MA fine but not 2-channel stereo. To the media player it's the same thing - 2 channel DTS-HD-MA. It shouldn't matter if the left and right channels are the same mono track or stereo - it's still 2 channels. So I still think there's something wrong with track 3.

EDIT: Wait, that's wrong - i was checking the wrong audio track. The mediainfo above is for the stereo track - track 2.

Harmy said:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you extracted track two (which would be track 3 inside the MKV, since track one is the video). Because audio track three is 470MB.

Yup, that's exactly what I did. I just checked.

I'll ask in my media player forum if it is supposed to support DTS-HD-MA 1.0 mono. I'll see what they have to say about it and report back here.

Just put this into your google search:
originaltrilogy.com how to burn an avchd disc in OSX 

yeah - that will work going forward, and is the reason i reposted it.  i masterfully avoided using any of those terms in the original post, making it quite difficult to find without a manual search of the thread, which i have always been too lazy to do (wait, i'm supposed to blame the kids!)

Harmy said: @michaeldc: There will be a nice menu and more lossless audio options on the BD, so that would be the only real difference.

Thank you for the reply Harmy, I think I'm gonna build my own blu-ray cutting out the things I won't need (all non English tracks and Subs), not that I don't appreciate the huge effort by all contributors. This is what I'll be watching until I can get my hands on the full BD - should be interesting to see if I don't make a total arse of it.

Harmy said:

 

I have a different problem though and that is that my BD player only shows ten audio tracks (and for some reason, it shows the 1st nine and the last one). I hope this is just the player's restriction for MKV and not some general BD format restriction. I can't remember if any of my commercial BDs has more than 10 language tracks, but the most I can recall is around 8. This could be why Encore won't import more than 8 tracks. I hope not.

EDIT: I just found a commercial BD that has over 12 audio tracks, so it should be fine.

 

Harmy, I have the same exact issue on my BD player, except it recognizes the first ten tracks, in order. I can't find any BD spec. that limits the number of tracks (not to say that it doesn't exist in some dark corner), so think that it probably is an MKV restriction within the player.

Harmy, is the FLAC mono that you posted the same as the one that was posted on Usenet ages ago or has hairy_hen made changes to it?

Harmy said:

Well, it wouldn't be much of a problem to do that but it would create an awkward gap :-D

Anyway, here's the flac mono-mix.

I was quite pleased to find that my BD player plays flac without problems as well.

Hey, thanks for the lossless flac track. That should take care of the incompatibility since my mede8er player handles flac fine. I'll just mux it in. I'm still waiting to hear back from the mede8er forum but I guess maybe it's a hardware incompatibility.

Also, just a note, the depositfiles link is down. Not sure why. I noticed the same thing when I tried to download the mkv from Depositfiles - all the links were gone. Not sure why as all the other links were up.

Harmy, once again Thank You for all your hard work. I know it's a labour of love for you, but it's still a Herculean effort and is appreciated by everyone here. 

I've just downloaded 2.5 and from a quick glimpse it looks gorgeous. Really does the original justice. Lush colours, crisp HD, great variety of soundtracks. 

Really looking forward to watching it on my iPhone 4. ;)

Harmy said:@Chewtobacca: I think it's the same one. I've had it here for quite some time.

That saves me a download then.  Thanks.