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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION — Page 279

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Well even though you put it into perspective it would still be retarded of me to get a PAL dvd player. Simply because I couldn't buy PAL dvds. I don't know why they have to be different from region to region. You would think a DVD would play in any DVD player. I mean good greif can't they all be PAL. Is blu ray the same with region formats like NTSC and PAL? If so that is retarded.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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It's worse. The differences between NTSC and PAL are technical and resulted from different countries adopting different broadcast standards. There isn't such an incompatibility with HD video, so they imposed an artificial one. The DVD region codes and Blu-ray region codes are entirely artificial, enforced by the manufacturers and movie studios to enforce price discrimination and staggered release schedules. My country has even ruled that DVD region codes contravene fair trade laws. That, along with the byzantine DRM schemes they employ, is the reason I won't buy a Blu-ray player until the system is thoroughly hacked and it's as trivial — and as inexpensive — to deregionify and copy a Blu-ray disc as it is to do the same to a DVD at present.

Can't wait until they realise that preventing consumers from making copies and suchlike is harmless to their business, and preventing professional pirates from making copies and suchlike is impossible to do with DRM.

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Is there an easier way to download these files, than to copy and paste the links one at a time? There's 80 of them and they're only downloading at around 300-400KB/sec when I have a 6Mbps internet connection.

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Janskeet said:

Is there an easier way to download these files, than to copy and paste the links one at a time? There's 80 of them and they're only downloading at around 300-400KB/sec when I have a 6Mbps internet connection.

Yes!

1 Use firefox

2 install the addon Flashgot

3 Install the program Flashget

4 Align the flashgot with the Flashget

5 Set the Flashget with the Rapidshare premium (passwords usernames servers)

6 Mark all the links and right click flashgot selection.

7 It will open to Flashget direclty with the RS premium account.

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Okay, I'll try that thanks.

Don't be surprised if I need help.

 

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So far I have downloaded the flashget and got the flashgot add-on. What do I do from here?

Screw it, I'll just keep doing it the old fashioned way.

 

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Buy a short-term Rapidshare subscription, and download 5-10 parts at a time.  That's how I do it when I use Rapidshare (very rarely, though).

All you need to do is download all the RAR parts.  Then, once you have ALL of them, put them ALL in the same folder, and open the VERY FIRST ONE (part.01.rar or whatever it is) with WinRAR or UnRarX if you're a Mac guy like me.  It'll automatically un-rar all of them into one nice, neat ISO for you.

Then you burn the ISO to a dual-layer DVD using ImgBurn (or Toast/Disk Utility/something of the sort for Mac), and you're good to go :-)

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ChainsawAsh said:

Buy a short-term Rapidshare subscription, and download 5-10 parts at a time.  That's how I do it when I use Rapidshare (very rarely, though).

All you need to do is download all the RAR parts.  Then, once you have ALL of them, put them ALL in the same folder, and open the VERY FIRST ONE (part.01.rar or whatever it is) with WinRAR or UnRarX if you're a Mac guy like me.  It'll automatically un-rar all of them into one nice, neat ISO for you.

Then you burn the ISO to a dual-layer DVD using ImgBurn (or Toast/Disk Utility/something of the sort for Mac), and you're good to go :-)

Can I just watch it directly on my PC? I don't have any dual layer DVDs right now?

 

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It looks like flashget likes to download 3 at a time. There was a thread option, you could choose between 1-10 threads. I just left it at the default of 5. I don't know what that means. 

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I hope my antivirus software doesn't screw this up. I suppose I should've turned it off before starting the download.

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RoccondilRinon said:

...NTSC discs don't play in PAL players. The jitter is a result of the format itself and applies equally to NTSC broadcasts as to DVDs. NTSC has a framerate of 60Hz; movies are made at 24fps. That works out to 2.5 video fields per film frame, so they show alternating frames for 2 and 3 fields each. PAL has a framerate of 50Hz, so they just speed the whole thing up to 25fps and show each frame for 2 fields. Some find the speed-up more distracting; others prefer it to the jitter (you notice it most in shots with steady motion or panning — the first shot of any Star Wars film is one of the easiest examples).

There's also the inevitable fact that PAL has a higher resolution — 576 lines as opposed to 486, or fewer in both cases for letterboxed pictures.

Some of your info is incorrect, RoccondilRinon. NTSC discs play in PAL players no problem pretty much all of the time, and 3:2 pulldown (jitter) only affects NTSC video which has been converted from 24fps to 30fps. If the video was originally recorded in 30fps (ie, TV programmes), then they run smooth. NTSC also has 480 lines of horizontal resolution, not 486.

The reason I posted, though, was to say I created a version of ANH:R which bypasses all of these problems. I took the video from the PAL DVD9, which has the highest quality image available due to having more horizontal lines of information than the NTSC9 release, and slowed this down to 23.976fps to have it run at its native speed. I then took the audio tracks from the NTSC9 release and added these to the video (which fitted perfectly - I checked the video speeds and there is only a 1/1000th of a second difference after converting the PAL video to 23.976fps compared to the NTSC version). I then ran the video file through MeGUI to create an x264 mkv file, muxed the AC3 audio tracks and the whole thing fits onto a 4.7GB DVD5. No more PAL speedup, no more NTSC 3:2 pulldown, and the image is transparent to the quality of the PAL9 video (the highest quality video image available) since the quants of the x264 file all fell below 14.

Obviously, this version can only be played on a PC (which is how I watch all of my films). If people are interested, I could up it to Demonoid?

 

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The download didn't work. Some of the files were corrupt. In the middle of my download trying it a second time. It was downloading at a steady 1.5 MB/sec and then suddently it dropped to dial-up speeds. I don't know if it was my ISP or Rapidshare. I bought the $6.99 one month deal. I don't know what the rules are with that, but that pissed me off. 

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An NTSC disc would only play in a player if the player was NTSC-compatible, so my information is not incorrect. It may be that PAL players tend to be NTSC-compatible as well, in which case those discs would play. What ESF said about the discs looking lousy if played on those players is wrong; they'd look no different. I explained that the 3:2 pulldown effect only affects movies. I get a similar pulldown effect when I watch PAL DVDs of US TV shows, because it's adapted from 30fps to 25.

As for your speed-corrected edition, there's probably a few here who'd be interested. 

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I wish this was simpler. I wish it was just one big file you download and then once it's finished it is ready to play! I'm going to try this one more time before calling it a night. If I can't get it to work, perhaps Adywan, you could mail me the DVDs? I will gladly pay the full price plus a little profit as long as it is reasonable.

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RoccondilRinon said:

An NTSC disc would only play in a player if the player was NTSC-compatible, so my information is not incorrect. It may be that PAL players tend to be NTSC-compatible as well, in which case those discs would play. What ESF said about the discs looking lousy if played on those players is wrong; they'd look no different. I explained that the 3:2 pulldown effect only affects movies. I get a similar pulldown effect when I watch PAL DVDs of US TV shows, because it's adapted from 30fps to 25.

As for your speed-corrected edition, there's probably a few here who'd be interested. 

 

Pupil is absolutely correct - all PAL DVD players can play NTSC discs. However, your TV might be less happy - if the player is just outputting straight NTSC, older CRT screens might not be able to display that properly. Some of my earlier players had a 'quasi PAL' option to overcome this, but I think that was specific to that manufacturer (Samsung).

Anyway, PAL DVD player + fairly modern TV = NTSC compatible. On an LCD screen the difference in framerate is virtually irrelevant, so it boils down to your choice between correct speed (NTSC for film sources) and higher resolution (PAL).

 

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Janskeet said:

I wish this was simpler. I wish it was just one big file you download and then once it's finished it is ready to play! I'm going to try this one more time before calling it a night. If I can't get it to work, perhaps Adywan, you could mail me the DVDs? I will gladly pay the full price plus a little profit as long as it is reasonable.

If you keep having problems, send me a PM and I'll hook you up (as long as you're looking for the NTSC DVD-9 and not the PAL).

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ChainsawAsh said:

Buy a short-term Rapidshare subscription, and download 5-10 parts at a time.  That's how I do it when I use Rapidshare (very rarely, though).

All you need to do is download all the RAR parts.  Then, once you have ALL of them, put them ALL in the same folder, and open the VERY FIRST ONE (part.01.rar or whatever it is) with WinRAR or UnRarX if you're a Mac guy like me.  It'll automatically un-rar all of them into one nice, neat ISO for you.

Then you burn the ISO to a dual-layer DVD using ImgBurn (or Toast/Disk Utility/something of the sort for Mac), and you're good to go :-)

Can I just watch it directly on my PC? I don't have any dual layer DVDs right now?

 

 

You said earlier that you had 8.5 discs. Those are dual layer.

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Janskeet said:
ChainsawAsh said:

Buy a short-term Rapidshare subscription, and download 5-10 parts at a time.  That's how I do it when I use Rapidshare (very rarely, though).

All you need to do is download all the RAR parts.  Then, once you have ALL of them, put them ALL in the same folder, and open the VERY FIRST ONE (part.01.rar or whatever it is) with WinRAR or UnRarX if you're a Mac guy like me.  It'll automatically un-rar all of them into one nice, neat ISO for you.

Then you burn the ISO to a dual-layer DVD using ImgBurn (or Toast/Disk Utility/something of the sort for Mac), and you're good to go :-)

Can I just watch it directly on my PC? I don't have any dual layer DVDs right now?

 

 

You might be able to view the .VOB files with the VLC player...

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Are we all forgetting that this is an ISO image he's downloading?  All you have to do is mount it and run your DVD player software.  Hell, some DVD player software can read the ISO without mounting it at all.

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Okay I downloaded all of the files again and have extracted all of them with Winrar. I don't get it. Where is the ISO file? Nothing has changed since I extracted it. ALll that it did was show some DVD covers.

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Janskeet said:

Okay I downloaded all of the filres again and have extracted all of them with Winrar. I don't get it. Where is the ISO file? Nothing has changed since I extracted it. ALll that it did was show some DVD covers.

did you download the DVD covers along with the DVD-9? How many rar files did you download? sounds like you only extracted the DVD covers or you have your windows set not to show the file extensions so the ISO will probably have a rar icon which is why you are not noticing it.

 

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I wish I could show you an image of what I have, but I only know windows vista has that capability. I found this SetupImgBurn_2 file, I selected that and now that is being extracted. I guess I'm just gonna have to play around with it until I figure it out. Yes I download all 80 files.