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'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED — Page 4

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Originally posted by: Zion
The old IFO files worked for me, though I couldn't figure out a way to fix the time. However, I did use the 5.1 audio instead of the 2.0 and I edited the IFO to reflect that. Still worked fine. I'll try out the new IFOs and see if I can do the same thing.

And yes, there should only be 6 VOBs. 5.xGB of video + AC3 = 6 (~1GB) VOBs.


I did 5.1 route too the first time. (2.0 each subsequent time.) The thing works, it just won't go into cloneDVD or DVD Shrink without an error. I want to put it on a single disc.

As an aside, what is the label on your guys' disc in windows explorer? Mine is CHARLOTTE. Odd for a SW disc.

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Okay, ShrinkDVD is *FINALLY* doing it. I don't know what the problem was. I did it exactly the same way before. Oh well. (As for CloneDVD, I think it was because I didn't have the newest version. I need to update.)

Thanks again, Mario!
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I guess 5.1 audio would have been better. I was just trying to keep it small. There's probably not much mb difference between a 2.0 and 5.1 ac3 file, though, is there?

Glad you finally got it working Art! I'm glad I could be of help. In return, does anyone here have newsgroup access and can get my the Street Fighte II movie DVD-9 fansub from alt.binaries.anime? I can't seem to figure out how or what to do to even get into a newsgroup.

Mine is CHARLOTTE too. I was about to ask the same thing. According to wikipedia, the CHARLOTTE discs are rarer or something. There is some weird form of copy protection? or something like that on the disc. When you rip the chapter points, there are 72 for some reason, even though there are only 50 chapters. It took me a while to find out which 50 of the 72 were the REAL ones.
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DVD trivia
On early discs with the DVD release, the file containing the film and the file with the bonus features were each named a variation of "CHARLOTTE," rather than something relating to the movie itself. This was done intentionally by those who created the DVD, in order to keep it a secret as to which exact DVD would be used for the main release to combat 11th Hour DVD piracy. The more common file is called something relating to Revenge of the Sith. Copies of the film titled Charlotte are valued more than standard releases.


Interesting.
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Yeah that's exactly what I read. So who doesn't have a CHARLOTTE disc?
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Thanks for all your work, marioxb, but I'm having a problem that, it seems, nobody else is having. I demuxed the vob using pgcDemux, and then was using muxman, but it failed, telling me that "Muxman operation failed. Probably caused by excessive bitrate."

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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One issue might be with me is that Muxman freezes, but keeps working. I'm unable to bring up the window while it's doing its business, but when I see that it's not writing any more data into the folder, I force quit it and drop the VOBs into the VIDEO_TS folder. Maybe that's where the issue lays for me.

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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
One issue might be with me is that Muxman freezes, but keeps working. I'm unable to bring up the window while it's doing its business, but when I see that it's not writing any more data into the folder, I force quit it and drop the VOBs into the VIDEO_TS folder. Maybe that's where the issue lays for me.


Yeah it does that. Just wait dor it to actually say it's finished. It will create ifo's when it's done and give a message saying it's done. These ifo's won't knows about my menus, however, which is why you need my replacement ifos. Just leave your computer running for a while and go do somehthing else until it's done.

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But it doesn't even start for me.

It just tells me it can't "Probably excessive bitrate"
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Originally posted by: sybeman
Thanks for all your work, marioxb, but I'm having a problem that, it seems, nobody else is having. I demuxed the vob using pgcDemux, and then was using muxman, but it failed, telling me that "Muxman operation failed. Probably caused by excessive bitrate."

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?


I had this problem with another movie before, but i forget why. I think it may have been that I didn't check enough boxes for animorphic video. Check all of the buttons for the subs and "both" for the video.

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Well, I demuxed the video and audio again, but this time with Smartripper rather than pgcDemux, and it seems to be working. Thanks for the help
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No problem! I've still never ever seen the movie with these subs. You guys like how I made the "long time ago" text blue and the crawl text yellow? I thought about making an actual crawl for the movie, backstroke-style, but I don't know how.
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Technically or Linguistically?
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Um, both. There actually isn't enough text in the Backstroke version to make a full crawl.

STAR WAR
The Third Gathers
BACKSTROKE OF THE WEST

The war came!
The republic encountered
Two squares fight the vehemence
The improbity fills the world
The space general
of the alliance is skillful
Kidnap the D the
speaker the conduct
The proper abruption
alliance troops tries
ratio prosperous drive with the

There it is.
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Nice. It could be funny just to have a really short crawl with lots of empty space. Or one could apply a little double space action, or maybe a little triple space action, some useless diagrams, that kind of thing.

I could type it up as a .png or .tiff or whatever if someone else would want to animate it.
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Everything works on the disc now, with the following exceptions:

1. The "Resume Movie" from the BotW subtitle screen crashes the program on the computer, and restarts to the initial menu on my TV dvd player. (Yes, both of them.)

2. Button highlights look fine in software players (powerdvd, etc.) but are totally off on my TV dvd player.

This is a great start (movie plays great), but I think I might reauthor the disc menus sometime.

I did find however (just watched the first part of the movie) that one of the subs over too quickly during the Dooku saber sequence. I didn't even have time to read it. Is the original the same?
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Woo! Success! I think the issue might have layed with the fact that I used a different program to demux and all that. Or maybe that I kept force-quitting MuxMan before it was finished. Either way, thanks mario!

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Yeah, muxman would hang forever at the end of the last vob file. I just opened my web browser and let it go in the background until it decided to unfreeze.
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Hmm, lemmie look at the menus on the DVD I burnt and see how it is for me. I really didn't change how long the subs are displayed. Only when they should start, but I will watch the Dooku scene tonight.

For resume to work properly, you have to have watched a bit of the movie first. (Not the Yoda dance either). That's just how that button is designed to work with DVDLab Pro. So start the movie, hit Menu, then you can use the resume menu button if you'd like to. I'm glad everything worked out and you guys like it. Go ahead and do with it as you please. It would be flattering or something to see someone use
these subs in another project.

Hmm, downloaded 75 times... I wonder what those 70-some other prople think...
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First off marioxb, let me say THANK YOU for making this. I'm finally able to enjoy Star Wars in Engrish!

I shamelessly stole Ell the Ewok's original Backstroke cover and changed up the back. I added an Engrish synopsis, and provided info so that this is now specific to marioxb's conversion kit.

http://www.erikstormtrooper.com/Backstrokeweb_altered_post.jpg

Link to Hi-Res Version

Enjoy!

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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Wow, this all looks very complicated. Any chance someone could do me a copy of their finished version?

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

 

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I second that request.....

4 - 5 - 3 - 1 - 6 - 2

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Right on, Erik. Brilliant. Now I have an excuse to print more covers.
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I downloaded this kit when it was first available. Now, I'm quite the newb at this... but I can't even figure out how to rip the ROTS DVD to the .m2v and .ac3 files to even start putting this together. I went to the Smartripper page, but it says that the program is no longer available. So I went and downloaded PGCdemux (which is the other program the instructions suggest to use) but all I can rip is the actual .vob and .ifo files.

I'm about ready to give up.
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okay, so with a little more searching I found a copy of smartripper. But I'm still not getting the .m2v and .ac3 file. All I get is a an .idx, .vob and .dtx files. Is this correct? Or is there some setting that I need to change? I looked through the settings and don't see anything to check off that says .m2v or .ac3 so I'm lost... again.