Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 423

Hi folks, first time posting for a long time.  Hoping that I can get some help here since I have exhausted tips I have found from Google searching.

First of all, thank you Harmy and all of the other dedicated folks that make projects like the despecialized editions possible.  I'm very impressed with the quality of the DE's.  I hadn't tried any restoration projects since the TR47 originals and was glad to fire up the ol' myspleen account to download the DE's.

Now about my problem.  I burned the DE's to DVD+R DL media and they played fine on my laptop.  However my old 40GB fat PS3 (my only bluray player besides the laptop) did a hard hang mid way through each film on the layer switch.

I did some Googling and determined I needed to get a hold of some Verbatim AZO DL media.  I did that and reburned ANH.  That fared better, the PS3 did not hang hard but still hung and skipped content.  So I did some more googling and determined that I needed to burn at 2.4x speed.  So I reburned ANH again and the problem actually got worse.

I am reburning ANH hope one more time thinking maybe it was a bad disc but I am not holding out much hope, new or otherwise.

I am using Imgburn at 2.4x speed.  I can't find any other settings that I should be changing.  The discs verify fine after the burn and the laptop is fine with the layer switch.  I am pretty much out of ideas and I've tried searching with various terms to no avail.  Can anyone offer any further advice?

<EDIT> I should mention that I downloaded the AVCHD editions and ANH is v2.1

Hey, long-time lurker here who's been excitedly following this project for a while now.

I saw a discussion of best Blu-ray media a few pages ago, and everyone was jumping on Verbatims so I had to make an account and chime in.

Verbs burn beautifully but don't have a good shelf life. The best BD-R media I've used is Panasonic. Some people have reported good results with SmartBlu sold by MediaMegaMall but I haven't had very good luck with those. My burner is a Lite-On iHBS112-04 with PL06 firmware.

Here is a Club Myce thread with some relevant information, including a link to a French degradation study showing that Panasonic and Sony are better for long term storage. Most of the folks over there seem to be of the opinion that Panasonic, Sony, Falcon Pro and SmartBlu are the best BD-R media.
http://club.myce.com/f33/best-bd-r-archival-330175/

The Panasonics can be bought off eBay or Amazon, just search "panasonic bd-r".

I have requested a myspleen invite many times over the years but never received one. So usenet will be my only hope and I know I'm not alone. I'm patient and sure it will show up over the next few weeks. Huge Thanks in advance to the future usenet poster.

dblake83 said:

I have requested a myspleen invite many times over the years but never received one........

You have now. Check PM.

armetilou said:

Verbs burn beautifully but don't have a good shelf life. ... Here is a Club Myce thread with some relevant information, including a link to a French degradation study showing that Panasonic and Sony are better for long term storage. ...
http://club.myce.com/f33/best-bd-r-archival-330175/

Read'em and weep (Verbatim doesn't fare well as either LTH or HTL):

http://www.myce.com/news/french-research-avoid-blu-ray-lth-discs-for-data-archival-64265/

deanwitty [Moderator]: "There seems to be clear agreement with other studies I've seen that Panasonic and Sony are the longevity leaders. Verbatim with not even 1/4 the lasting power of those two."
http://club.myce.com/f33/french-study-bd-r-archival-329441/
Their further discussion of other brands is certainly worth it for the one page read. Off-topic (even there) certainly is valuable!  ;)

Oh, BTW, good job, Harmy (here and on the others, too)!

As GL would quietly gush on-set ... "great".

tehparadox is back up.

TV's Frink said:

This has happened before, hasn't it?  I'd give it some time to see if it goes back up.

Goddamn, I'm sexy AND smart.  What a catch for the ladies I am, too bad I'm taken.

Hey, I was wondering if I was the only one who has left the TTG forums. It's sad how after BTTF everything kinda went to hell over there. Back around S&M and ToMI times it was one of my main communities over there, and now I don't even like the new design...

onizuka said:

For some odd reason the copy on myspleen doesn't download when loading up the torrent...is anyone else having the same issue??

Usually a BitTorrent problem. Try µTorrent instead.

jmcmike said:

Now about my problem.  I burned the DE's to DVD+R DL media and they played fine on my laptop.  However my old 40GB fat PS3 (my only bluray player besides the laptop) did a hard hang mid way through each film on the layer switch.

 

 

Same here and I think you'll find that's normal (on a Sony anyway) because what you're playing is not an actual DVD but just a file on a DVD.  The only way I can watch it nicely is via a USB stick rammed into my Sony BD player.

I guess if you want it to play as you want from a disc you'll need to wait for the BD version to be released.

I tried making a simple menu with multiAVCHD 4.1 and it's actually quite easy and you get decent results.

I ran into one problem though: Although you can add lots of audio and subtitle tracks to your project, the setup menu of the created Blu-ray only shows up to 6 audio tracks and 5 subtitle tracks. There doesn't seem to be a possibility to extend that menu to more than one page, like the chapter menu.

@Harmy: You said you would use multiAVCHD for the menu of the first disc too. Are you aware of this problem and is there a workaround? If there isn't a workaround, I'm afraid multiAVCHD is pretty useless for those who want to create a Blu-ray with more than just 6 audio tracks. You can still switch between the different tracks with the audio button of your remote while playing the movie of course, but the reason why I want a menu is having the different audio tracks properly labeled in the setup menu.

I really hope I'm just too stupid...

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Told myself I'd wait for the BD-ready release and hold off on the MKV, but couldn't fucking resist. I blame Frink obviously.

No one can resist me.