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ESB has an aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
Since anamorphic DVDs are 16:9 (which is 1.78:1 or 1.82:1 depending on who you believe) there will still be black bars.

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Going back to the original topic... this AVISynth script works for ROTJ:

subtitle("There will be no bargain.",-1,470,14375,14465,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("I will not give up my favourite decoration.",-1,470,14525,14680,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("I like Captain Solo where he is.",-1,470,14725,14810,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("I have come for the bounty on this Wookiee.",-1,470,20500,20605,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("At last we have the mighty Chewbacca.",-1,470,20750,20860,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("This bounty hunter is my kind of scum...",-1,470,22550,22670,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("fearless and inventive.",-1,470,22675,22750,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("It's too late for that, Solo.",-1,470,28750,28840,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("You may have been a good smuggler...",-1,470,28850,28960,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("...but now you're Bantha fodder.",-1,470,28965,29050,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("Take him away.",-1,470,29220,29270,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("Bring her to me.",-1,470,29440,29500,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("I'm sure.",-1,470,29740,29790,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("I told you not to admit him.",-1,470,33460,33570,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("He must be allowed to speak.",-1,470,33610,33675,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("You weak-minded fool!",-1,470,33700,33770,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("He's using an old Jedi mind trick.",-1,470,33810,33915,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("Your mind powers will not work on me, boy.",-1,470,34150,34270,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("There will be no bargain, young Jedi.",-1,470,34680,34785,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("I shall enjoy watching you die.",-1,470,34820,34900,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("Bring me Solo and the Wookiee.",-1,470,39725,39805,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("They will all suffer for this outrage.",-1,470,39815,39915,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("Soon you will learn to appreciate me.",-1,470,43150,43300,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("Move him into position.",-1,470,45215,45275,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
subtitle("Put him in.",-1,470,45860,45915,"FranklinGotTDemCon",32,$ffffff)
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Thanks Squirrel. I had deleted the script I used for Jedi.

(Some may argue about the spelling of "favourite"!)

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Thanks Squirrel!

Right now I'm working on burning in the subs for ANH, but I was dreading the manual work required to build a subtitle script that corresponds with ROTJ.

Thank you
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Damn, I really need help right now. The video looks great, but I every time I encode it, the audio is always silent.
I had problems ripping the ESB DVD. DVD Decrypter produced files that Rebuilder didnt like (it wouldnt load the entire movie, only a 6 min clip). DVDFab Decrypter produced files with no sound. Right after ripping I played the files in Media Player Classic and there was no sound. DVD Shrink rips everything just fine. The audio works and Rebuilder has no problem loading the files. So the problem starts with DVD Rebuilder.

Here's what I'm using:
-DVD Shrink to rip
-DVD Rebuilder Pro 1.21
-CCE SP 2.70

When I ripped with DVDShrink, I selected only the video track and the English audio track (I left out all the subtitles and the other two audio's). After encoding, the video is great, but the 1 audio track is silent. I loaded the files back into DVDShrink and there is definitely an audio track, but its 178MB instead of the original 180MB.

Is there any way to tell DVD RB or CCE that I dont want to re-encode the audio track? I really just want the audio to be untouched. There is NO reason why it should deal with it in the first place.


I really need help and I would REALLY appreciate it!

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AFAIK, there should be no problems ripping the GOUT discs with DVD Decrypter.

Are you using a legitimate purchased version of DVD-RB? Reading the doom9 forum, there are apparently issues with missing audio caused by dodgy "crack" patches.

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Yes..... As a matter of fact I am using a dodgy, cracked version of DVD RB.

The fundamental problem here is that I'm not willing to spend more money to accomplish something (anamorphic SW DVD's) that should have been included in my original purchase of the Star Wars DVDs. I just want DVDs that will work with my HDTV! Is that too much to ask for after paying $50 for YET ANOTHER set of SW discs?! Damnit Lucas!
Rebuilder does look like a worthy program, but this will most likely be the ONLY time I will need it. Maybe I'll just try using the freeware version and hope for the best.

Moth3r, thank you for helping. I really appreciate it.
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You don't need ReBuilder to accomplish this, it just automates some of the tasks and makes life easier.

You can easily make a barebones disc, using only:
DVD Decrypter
PGC Demux
AVISynth + DGMPGDec
CCE
Muxman

After that, it's not much extra work to modify the GOUT disc using VobBlanker to swap out the original video with the video from your new anamorphic disc; the existing menu structure of the GOUT disc is kept intact.

It starts to get a bit more complicated if you want to remove things like the lego preview and THX optimizer.

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Moth3r, thanks for the help.
Last night, I used DVD-RB 2.50 and the process was a complete success!

But, being greedy, I'm not done yet. Today I'm going to try to run the process again, but at the end manually insert the original audio from the ESB DVD. I dont like how the audio gets re-encoded using Rebuilder and CCE. I plan on running the Preparation & Encoding steps in Rebuilder, and then do the rest manually. I'm thinking I'll just import the original AC3 audio file and all the .m2v video files into MuxMan (or DVD-Lab Pro) and build the DVD. I hope this is as easy as it looks (seems like it never is). If this process doesn't work, its not the end of the world: what I have right now is very much acceptable.

After I finally finish the ESB DVD, it will be time to move on to the task of burning in subtitles with the ANH and ROTJ discs. Hopefully I'll get to start that tonight.


Thanks for the help!
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The way I did it:

Re-author with DVDShrink, no compression (ignore warnings about the file being too big), that way I can have just the main movie and strip out all the subtitles and other languages (can't remember if there are any).

Then run DVD-RB (with the AviSynth script) on the re-authored ISO (mount it with Nero ImgDrive or similar, or just save the files to a folder on the hard disk).

This gives as much space as possible for the main movie.

Hope that helps.
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Yeah, I can't figure it out.

I'm trying to use DVD Rebuilder for its Prepare and Encode (w/ CCE SP) steps, and instead of letting it Rebuild into a DVD, I want to manually build a DVD with the re-encoded video files and the original AC3 audio file from the ESB DVD. After Rebuilder and CCE finish the "Encode" step, I am left with the following files:

-item.ecl, item01.ecl, REBUILDER.ECL
-REBUILDER.INF
-V01.D2V
-54 sets of 4 files with the following extensions: .AVS , .FLG , .m2v , .vaf (e.g. V01000000001001.AVS, V01000000001001.m2v)

My plan was to import all of the .m2v files into DVD-Lab and import the original demuxed .AC3 audio file and burn the DVD. For whatever reason, DVD-Lab wanted a 2:3 pulldown for all 54 of the video files. After all that, I couldnt even drag more than one file into the DVD builder, it wouldnt allow multiple m2v's to be placed back-to-back.

So.... anybody have any advice? I've never done manual DVD authoring, so I dont know anything. But I do know that I'm sick of working on these DVDs!


Thank you
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What are you looking to end up with, exactly?

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Guys, why the hell do you do it so complicated ? Is it a problem for you to write the AviSYnth script manually ? It's VERY easy.

1) Rip the DVD with DVDDecrypter in IFO mode.
2) Create a index file with DDMPGDec or what's it's name
3) Create the AviSynth script in ANY text editor or let GordianKnot to create the script for you
4) To the script you must add the "subtitle" lines from the sample scripts posted above
5) OPen the script with ANY mpeg encoder (CCE, TMPGEnc, QuEnc, HC...)

Easy.
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Moth3r: I am trying to re-encode the GOUT DVDs with CCE SP in 16:9 AR and burned-in subititles (for ANH and ROTJ). I also want to use the original (not re-encoded) AC3 audio from the GOUT DVDs.

pittrek: I tried to do this process manually, but no matter what I did, CCE always produced video that was sped-up. I guess it implemented pulldown. I couldnt figure out a way to correct this.
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If that's all you want to do, then as pittrek says, the process is not difficult.

Here's what I'd do:
1. Use DVD Decrypter in IFO mode to demux video (M2V) and audio (AC3) files.
2. Open M2V into DGIndex and save as D2V project.
3. Write AVISynth script in notepad to convert video into 16:9 and add in subtitles where needed.
4. Open AVS file in CCE and encode new video.
5. Author new DVD using new video file and the AC3 file from step 1.

So are you having a problem with step 4? Did you preview the AVS file in VirtualDub or a media player to make sure it was correct? What settings did you use in CCE?

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I cant figure out why the script wont run in VirtualDub (w/ subtitler) or Media Player Classic. It gives me a black screen with red text that explains that the commmand "subtitle" isnt recognized.
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"Subtitle" is an internal filter built in to AviSynth, so it's really odd that you're be getting that message.

All I can suggest is to check the spelling, and if that doesn't work try reinstalling AviSynth.

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