Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released) — Page 89

Wow, looks amazing. I haven't watched the workprint so this is a real treat and will definitely suffice until the MKV is ready!  Top notch work as usual Harmy!

cybrsage said:

I think myspleen canceled a bunch of accounts and now are no longer handing them out again.  We need a different place.

We have one.  It's called tehparadox.

And all you people asking for invites, for the love of all things Harmy, please read the first post.

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Harmy, sent you a PM!

SirJonah said:

I couldn't either. What I did with both SW 2.5 and this is to drag the playlist file onto tsMuxeR (to preserve the chapters), deselect whatever streams you don't want and choose TS Muxing as the output. Works fine in XBMC.

You mean remuxing works if you use tsMuxeR? That's what I would have done in the first place but I don't have the time right now.

Thanks Harmy!!!

Harmy said:

That is a known issue - if you want to mux an mkv, you'll need to use a different version of MKV merge or first demux all the tracks in TS Muxer and then re-mux them in MKV merge.

Is there any disadvantage if you do all the work with tsMuxeR?

I found the Star Wars Despecialized Edition making of video on youtube very fascinating. Are there going to be videos explaining the sources for Empire and Jedi too, or was it just a thing made for the Star Wars Depescialied Edition?

gizzy2000 said:

I found the Star Wars Despecialized Edition making of video on youtube very fascinating. Are there going to be videos explaining the sources for Empire and Jedi too, or was it just a thing made for the Star Wars Depescialied Edition?

 I hate to be the one to say it, Harmy, but if there are going to be more, you might find someone here that's better suited for voiceover work. You're the king, but even kings need heralds. 

Or maybe I'm just an asshole. 

Really looking forward to breaking in my new apartment next week with the MKV! Excellent work, once again.

There does seem to be an issue with demuxing here - clownBD/eac3to chokes (it appears to be caused by stream 6 / audio track 5), and tsMuxeR gives up halfway through.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to make an MKV, just remuxing it to a BD folder format; the problem is with the initial demux.

It's just a bit frustrating since, as others have said, the previous DEs behaved just fine...

Doug Detling said:

supercam56 said:

Hello guys !

First of all, thanks Harmy ! I have not seen the movie yet, but I have no doubt that it"s amazing ! I can't wait to watch my favourite star wars movie in .mkv !

I have uploaded it to uptobox, if anyone is interested, just send me a PM. 

Harmy, if you want I can send you the links to put them on tehparadox. ;)

 Uptobox doesn't seem to work for US folks.

 Really ?

Ok so I will upload it to 1fichier.com too. 

...you might find someone here that's better suited for voiceover work.

Funny you mention that...

Earlier today I was watching the first sources doc thinking Harmy's voice is actually good, but the recording could use a proper mix and mastering session. So I remastered the whole and it sounds much better, despite starting from a compressed source. Of course it would be even better if I had separate tracks for voice and background music.

I certainly don't want to step on Hairy Hen's toes, or anyone else's for that matter, but if nobody has stepped up to offer audio engineering for the documentaries I'll be glad to lend my talents.

mindlessv said:

...you might find someone here that's better suited for voiceover work.

Funny you mention that...

Earlier today I was watching the first sources doc thinking Harmy's voice is actually good, but the recording could use a proper mix and mastering session. So I remastered the whole and it sounds much better, despite starting from a compressed source. Of course it would be even better if I had separate tracks for voice and background music.

I certainly don't want to step on Hairy Hen's toes, or anyone else's for that matter, but if nobody has stepped up to offer audio engineering for the documentaries I'll be glad to lend my talents.

 I don't remember any problems when I watched it.

Tried Daemon tools instead of winrar and of course it worked fine - this should be the first step for anyone else who wants to tinker with the streams. Thanks Harmy.

I can't recall it being mentioned - will the MKV be letterboxed 720p or cropped to the frame size?

Harmy said:

Actually, I'm planning two MKV versions, the main one with 15000Kbps BD compatible stream and lossless audio and then another, cropped to 1280x542 at a much lower bitrate with the same audio options as the AVCHD for those, who want a more compact MKV version of around 5GB (it's preferable to people making their own smaller encodes with crappy settings from an already re-compressed source) - I could technically already release the smaller MKV now but I don't want people thinking it's the main MKV release.

Harmy, this is actually great for me! Previously I would have to remux the AVCHD to use get a compact (~6-7gb) MKV for streaming purposes to avoid compressing the video a second time on the larger MKV. I would then archive the larger MKV on blu-ray disc. I know this is asking a lot, but any chance you would do a smaller MKV release as well for SW 2.5? I am continuing to have issues remuxing that file as well. I will try tonight as you suggested demuxing first and then using mkvmerge.

Harmy: people are insulting your voice, are you gonna take their shit!? >:E

The AVCHD is encoded so well I can't make out any compression issues watching on my Plasma.  I'll still be grabbing the main MKV to make a blu ray with but the AVCHD looks damn good!