Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 406

It's been a while since I used that software do I really have to enter codes over 100 times in a row?

Harmy said:

I am actually uploading to more servers now, if you'd rather wait.

Like MEGA or Megashares?  No captcha requirement AFAIK.

Usenet...NZB???????.... not?

Harmy said:

All that multiupload offers. And the upload is going pretty fast.

Nice, thank you :-)

Harmy said:

All that multiupload offers. And the upload is going pretty fast.

Will you post that multiupload link somewhere?

Zer0Squared said:

I'm sure he will once he's finished uploading it.

I'm just wondering where the link will be since they are not allowed here if he will post it in tehparadox entry

No, he said he will give it to me and then I decide who gets it.

This is wonderful news.  Hope the links come soon because I'm off to see Gravity in a bit.  Thanks again Harmy!

Sorry I put it that way.  I know about the link situation and I am waiting on both paradox and my spleen.  Thanks for clarifying it.

I hope that this pops up on myspleen within a few hours jdownloader keeps failing on me

michaelkirschner said:

I hope that this pops up on myspleen within a few hours jdownloader keeps failing on me

Jdownloader or jdownloader2?  Jdownloader2 has been virtually flawless for me. (not to mention superior in many ways to V1)

Glad I could help out with this.  :)

I believe there was a question about audio bitrates . . . the '85, '93, and isolated score tracks are all stereo AC3 at 320 kbps, while the theatrical mixes use lossless compression and therefore have variable bitrates.  The core DTS tracks contained therein are at 1509, 639, and 384 kbps respectively for the 70mm, stereo, and mono.

My reason for going high on the cores is that legacy DTS compresses audio quite differently than Dolby Digital, having been designed to provide maximum quality within a CD-ROM bandwidth rather than trying to squeeze it down to as small a file size as possible.  It focuses first on compressing without actually removing information, and only then uses perceptual encoding (throwing away parts of the sound that are difficult to hear) in order to get down to the target bitrate.  As such it requires more bits to function effectively, and comparing it to AC3 on numbers alone is meaningless.  With 1509 being virtually transparent for 5.1, I wanted the stereo and mono versions to be comparable, and those are the numbers I arrived at.

Using larger cores does increase the size of the output, but since DTS-HD MA is providing lossless and lossy audio together in one file, that can't be helped if the goal is to obtain maximum quality from both.  I did some brief testing and determined that the file size is actually quite comparable to encoding in Dolby TrueHD and including a high bitrate AC3 track along with it, so in terms of total efficiency for a dual delivery system, both come out approximately equal.

Anyway, I hope everyone will be happy with the soundtracks included in this release, and enjoy being able to switch between them without the volume levels jumping all over the place.  ;)  I'll be making a new thread for all of my stuff where I can discuss them in greater detail if anyone is interested in hearing more about it all.

I think I'm more excited for the second blu-ray disc to see all the work that's been put into it and the differences between 2.1 and 2.5

Harmy said:

LOL, sorry Frink, you came up with that wonderful idea too late, the multiup links are already in the same place as the uloz ones.

Oh well...I was going to give out links to everyone but Stinky anyway.

Just wanted to say thank you so much for this Harmy, for all your excellent hard work to give us this amazing preservation. And a big thank you to all who contributed.