Blackout

To those whose spleens have still been itching for a 5.1 mkv, today is your lucky day.

Finally got to burn all three movies today not too long ago and they are fantastic. One little thing though, my player doesn’t start reading(that might be the wrong term) the disc immediately, so most of the drum roll for the opening 20th Century Fox logo gets cut off before the sound catches up. Would increasing the delay before the movie starts be something you might consider implementing in the future?

P.S. This isn’t exclusive to the movie starting, but whenever clips/interfaces/sections of the disc are qued(ex. the Harmy Film intro).

My spleen is itchy. A tad less of the purple still there would make this close to flawless.

clutchins said:

I don’t want this to sound like asking for technical help too much. After I made this into an MKV with a bunch of other audio tracks from the DE, I noticed that the Jaxxon mono track will force the video to play at something like half speed. Any reason for this? Should I just make another MKV?

I’d just try it again and see what happens, cause that does sound odd(not that I’m the expert; hardly).

With the MKV version now on Spleen, I downloaded that and tried to mux in the 5.1 audio using MKVToolNix. While watching the movie, the audio seemed synced, though I still suffered some of the same picture issues as my previous attempts. Here are five frames I grabbed to showcase what I’m talking about specifically(the first and last pictures are only posted for reference for how long the glitch persists): http://imgur.com/a/eMsP2

This glitch always occurs (but in varying areas) with the use of MKVToolnix, MakeMKV and TSMuxer. Now that I remember, I not so recently used MakeMKV to convert the ESB Grindhouse ISO into an MKV file without these glitches. Because this is consistent over all three programs, I’m assuming it has something to do with my computer itself.

I haven’t been able to find help online. Does anyone have any knowledge about this issue? I’d like to have the SSE with the 5.1 audio track, but no one yet has uploaded it to M/S, and I’m willing to do so if able.

Thank you for any help in advanced.

towne32 said:

Whatever the problem was, it looks like kitt1987 had it too, and deleted his attempt.

I’d speculate his issues were more related to the upload itself rather than something wrong with the actual video file. He says he’ll try again today, but I can speak for him, myself, and many others that we’d all be the more happy the sooner anyone can push out a proper working version on MS.

RU.08 said:

I’ve just made two MKVs, one with mkvtoolnix and the other with makemkv (so I can see the results). Can you give me a specific example of a problem with yours? It is certainly possible that mkvtoolnix is having difficulty joining together certain types of tracks while maintaining interleave points perhaps that’s the source of the problem?

One problem with mine was the audio syncing: notably while the admiral is mocking Vader’s religion and while Porkins says “I’m right with you Red 3”. There were other places but those two pop in mind. There were also horizontal video tears sprinkled throughout, ranging from minimal to very offensive. Those varied with each export, however.

RU.08 said:

Blackout- which program are you using? And did you extract the .iso first?

MKVToolNix and yes. My specs are probably just not up to par.

Btw, Kitt is the person I have been talking about.

Sorry for the double post.

Unfortunately, many of the same problems still persist(though, to a much lesser extent): some minor video issues and some major audio-video syncing issues.

@Dek Rollins I have informed the person who I mentioned in my first post (who also intended to upload the MKV 5.1 Only track) of the request of including the 2.0 and Mono mixes in the upload as well.

I will consider it. At the moment, I’m experiencing some minor audio sync issues that only happens during specific moments. I’m looking into it. Are there any audio sync issues with the .iso, particularly in the Vader choking scene and when Porkins says “I’m right with you Red Three”?

Blackout said:

Count on me to help seed an MKV 5.1 release, as, if it is not already clear, I will make no attempt to re-upload.

Count on you all being deceived on my behalf once again, as I may in fact attempt another upload because I’ve re-exported the movie using a different method and every technical issue found in the previous upload is no where to be found thus far. Those of you praying for the MKV 5.1, still keep your fingers crossed: I hope not to mislead anyone for the would be third time now but its still a possibility.

I was the uploader of that torrent. Once again, sorry for the inconvenience.

To make things more clear, yes, I requested for it to be disabled. Apparently oftentimes disabling a torrent rather than deleting it is preferred, so instead of deleting it myself, I deferred it to the admins to do as they pleased. I immediately stopped seeding and put in the title of the torrent that it was broken, as well as modified the description indicating the same.

As I said as quoted above, I found some major glitches in the MKV file itself that for whatever reason were not evident before I had uploaded the torrent in the first place. That is probably related to why the torrent stopped at 99% for some (or all) of you.

A downloader commented on the page when it was still up and said he intended to do that same but I beat him to it. I’ve sent him a PM requesting that he follow through with that after all. I also advocated in the comments that if anyone else is able to do the same but sooner than to do so.

All in all, my bad. I’ll definitely try to be even more thorough next time in my glitch hunting(if there is one). Count on me to help seed an MKV 5.1 release, as, if it is not already clear, I will make no attempt to re-upload.

After nearly completing the download from Usenet something happened and it failed. I’m not complaining, but just wanting to ask if anyone here knows of any way to recover or “resume” the progress of the download. Ty in advanced.

Density said:

Blackout said:

Can someone please explain in excruciating detail how to use SABnzbd to download this specifically OR upload to Spleen or mega? I (and many others) would greatly appreciate it.

1. Make sure you register with a usenet provider. If you don’t want to pay get a free trial from a service like the one I mentioned.
2. Follow the instructions at the following link to set up SANnzbd and link it to your server:
   http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/quick-setup
3. Go to a site called binsearch and search for “SSE.”
4. Check the box next to what is currently the second link listed (should be about 36GB and say 1.6) and select “create NZB.”
5. Open the NZB file you just created with SABnzbd.
6. Wait for it to finish downloading, verifying, and unpacking.
7. And you’re done.

That is the .par2, correct?

Either way, thank you so much!

Can someone please explain in excruciating detail how to use SABnzbd to download this specifically OR upload to Spleen or mega? I (and many others) would greatly appreciate it.

ahughes03 said:

towne32 said:
The Grindhouse release of ESB should have the 35mm optical track present to be sure.

I just checked, and Grindhouse doesn’t have the yell you’re looking for…

Can confirm.

Wow. They definitely look more than good on my end.

AllAboutThatSpace said:
As for a grindhouse of SW, the uncorrected scan is available, and was up on Myspleen (again, heresay, I don’t have Myspleen)

Where is one supposed to request for a Spleen invite? I’ve searched the forum and found all threads dedicated to this purpose locked. Am I right to assume that I’ve either glossed over the proper place or members here must graciously hand them out privately?

Thank you Dek and towne. TsMuxer did the trick, shaving off approximately 1.7GBs removing all but the 5.1 track (well more than I needed). Thanks again for all of your help guys.

Is it possible to somehow remove most of the soundtracks on the AVCHD version without loss in visual quality? The .m2ts file is ever so slightly too large to fit onto my disc. Also open to other ways I might be able to shrink the file size without loss in quality.

Thank you for any assistance in advanced.