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GZK8000 said:

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I also want to ask if you people know why is link 09 of the multipart RAR download of the NSTC DVD5 version of RotJ DeEd 2.5 broken. No matter whether I use Firefox or Chrome, this link doesn’t work, it only downloads a 60,1 kB file

Part 09 is down here too (not sure why it’s broken now) although I get a 32.9 kB file. An alternative source for this DVD5 is Usenet, but it means downloading the whole thing from scratch since the parts there don’t correspond to those on uloz. Mallwalker kindly posted it 498 days ago, and all parts still appear to be there.

Bluto

[EDIT: PM sent regarding post below to help with Usenet.]

I got my RotJ Grindhouse from the paradoxical place (which is down at present), and the checksums agree with those given in the OP.

• Filename: Return.of.the.Jedi.Grindhouse.35mm.LPP.mkv (this lacks the “.1080p” in yours)
• Filesize: 22,872,868,821 bytes

If your filesize agrees, chances are you have a corrupted download. If not, you may well have an unofficial release, possibly a re-encode of some sort.

As far as I know, only one version of the 1080p Grindhouse mkv is “officially” available i.e. the original release.

Here are some checksums for you:

• MD5: 18E92D0060C6EFD23696AA1C76198E68
• SHA-1: 2144BC0A9BCFCC6BC44AD6C1D61242700681E1E4
• CRC32: DB7155C6

File size: 22,865,182,720 bytes

These apply to both the ISO file on the spleen as well as the ISO which can be found at a certain bay. (The latter does not come with any extras e.g. trailer, cover art.)

Bluto

Looks fantastic except for Vader’s leg… There’s something weird with the perspective there. Looks like it is coming out of his chest!

Bluto

I hope to get v2 over the weekend and make an ISO for burning to Bluray. Browsing the forum, it seems that tsmuxer is the software of choice for such a task. To those who are familiar with the process: are there any special/non-obvious settings I need to select?

Many thanks again to Dreamaster.

Bluto

Dreamaster, I am really looking forward to this. Thank you for devoting so much time to improving the original grindhouse release.

Bluto

Groovy! This all sounds fabulous. Really glad to hear you’re making it Bluray compliant, as it’s nice to make a disc playable on a standalone player. I’ll have to give this “tsmuxer” program a go.

Out of interest, what is wrong with the credits? Is it related to the issue which affected Team -1’s original Grindhouse release (I read somewhere that this had corrupted video from the last shot of the Falcon and into the credits), or is it just a coincidence that something went wrong with the encoding at around the same place?

Bluto

Bluray ISO format like the original Grindhouse would be marvellous!

Dreamaster - you mentioned in your first post that you went back to the raw source: the “Prores” files. Out of interest, were these still red-faded, or had they already been colour-corrected to some extent by Team -1?

Bluto

The credits are right; it’s the filename which is misleading in this instance.
The latest Jedi v2.5 has “v2.0” in the filename for the AVCHD version, but the credits correctly say v2.5.

I don’t recall there being any other inconsistencies in the DeEd filenames.

Bluto

Dreamaster - the clip you posted looks really great, with miraculous denoising.

I am curious about this stage in the process: “The very top layer in my project is film grain. I found a nice “dirty” 35mm film grain online and learned how to “blend” it as an overlay.”

What is the advantage in applying this extra layer which wasn’t present in the actual scans? i.e. Why not denoise / remove scratches / colour correct only?

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ThePJzer said:

Anyone by chance have a list of checksums for all of these ISOs that they can post here or PM me? I don’t see any in the OP or on MySpleen.

Sorry for asking, I’m kind of a stickler when it comes to verifying file integrity.

I am exactly the same 😃.

But there isn’t any need to worry about checksums for torrent downloads. As I understand it, the .torrent file contains a hash list (the SHA-1 checksums of the pieces concatenated together). As each piece of the file has finished downloading, your bittorrent client automatically checks that the checksum agrees with that contained in the .torrent file. If it doesn’t, the piece is discarded and downloaded again.

If you want peace of mind, it is possible to verify a completed torrent download from within most (all?) clients. In utorrent 2.2.1, for example, just stop the torrent seeding, right-click it, and select “Force Re-Check”. You don’t need to be online for this to work; the client simply runs through every single piece of your downloaded file(s) in the torrent, verifying all the checksums once again against your local copy of the .torrent file.

The only time you should ever need to manually compare checksums against somebody else who has the file is if you have concerns that the torrent may be fake i.e. not the version you thought you were downloading. Assuming you obtained njvc’s work from the usual source, this isn’t an issue.

Hope this helps,
Bluto

I had checked Usenet for suspiciouscoffee, but failed to find it there for him.
Searching the terms rotj grindhouse:

• binsearch yields no results
• nzbfriends yields no results
• nzbking yields 3 irrelevant results

The last one is weird given that Darth Mallwalker’s link goes to nzbking and clearly shows the DVD5 is present in its database with the terms rotj and grindhouse… Any idea why, Darth?

I have since managed to find it by searching on nzbindex.

Bluto

(Double post - sorry)

There are no DVD9 versions of Harmy’s DeEd which include menus and/or extra features to my knowledge. But there are DVD9 “AVCHD” versions with just the film which will play on a standalone Bluray player - see the “Ultimate Guide” which is referred to in post 1 of the main thread:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-V27-MKV-IS-OUT-NOW/id/12713

Bluto

Ahh… That brings back happy memories. I had a recording of the ITV premiere of TESB (my sister wanted us to record Back to the Future instead on another channel while we were out, but my dad fortunately did an Indy and “chose wisely”!). It wasn’t until many years later, when watching the 2006 GOUT DVD, that I noticed the odd 30 seconds of dialogue were missing here and there from my VHS recording. From memory, there were a couple of shots involving C-3PO missing, both at times where there were adverts:

• C-3PO reassuring R2D2 that Luke will be alright at dusk, just after Han goes looking for him on Hoth
• Sarcastic remarks from Han made to C-3PO on board the falcon while they are hiding in the asteroid, just after Piett has briefed Vader

I wonder if anything else was chopped out?

Sadly I no longer have this VHS tape. I lent it many times to a colleague who taught Geography and used it for a particular lesson to introduce glaciers…! Rather tenuous, but time better spent than getting the kids to colour stuff in, I guess. Then he left the school, and I realised only months later that he still had my tape 😦. It also had “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” afterwards, possibly recorded later that day or the next day.

Bluto

Where did you hear about v3.1?

Regarding the original TN1 Grindhouse, I am only aware of three releases:

(1) 1080p mkv, non-Bluray compatible and with some video glitches near the end.
(2) 1080p ISO, Bluray compatible, with no glitches. This supersedes (1), is widely available, and fits on a BD25 for playback on a standalone Bluray player.
(3) 720p mkv which has “DVD9” in the filename but is a tad too big to fit on such a disc…

There was a “version 2” of the Grindhouse which was based on a totally different print, and is known as the “DCP 2013”. This is in 1080p and bizarrely in wmv format, has more vibrant colours than the main Grindhouse, but to my eyes is less sharp. It took me a while to track down and seems only to be available on Usenet as far as I know.

More recently, Dreamaster released a single pass colour-corrected version of the original Grindhouse. This is in mkv format and in 1080p.

Bluto

Check Harmy’s own thread on the Star Wars DeEd: “Harmy’s STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 MKV IS OUT NOW”.

There is a link to the “Ultimate Guide” in the first post which has all the info you need for obtaining v2.7 as well as the latest DeEd of V and VI.

Bluto

I had exactly the same issue: although Harmy’s mkv files play fine in VLC, I can’t get NJVC’s iso files to play the main movie in VLC. (All of his extras seem to work, however.)

Fortunately, my stand-alone Bluray player worked fine with the iso files burned to BR-DL discs. Well, nearly fine… It didn’t like the default audio track for some reason. The picture was a little jerky (looked like a frame skip about once every second or two) until I tried another audio track at which point all was fine.

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mr_chiz said:

I use imgburn. Yes there is malware bundled with it but if you select the right options during install you can have it without.
Example here:
http://www.jdhodges.com/blog/safe-version-imgburn-without-opencandy/

ImgBurn is brilliant, but it does indeed sadly have a potentially dodgy installer. A post on the cdrlabs forum mentioned an easy way of using it without risking any unwanted crap:

Simply use 7zip to open the installer exe file, and extract the 2 exe files and Sounds directory. The rubbish is all in the $PLUGINSDIR directory.

Bluto

The guide also has a little section telling you how to acquire the relevant links for the download client (FRD) without visiting the paradoxical place. As long as “uloz dot to” is not blocked (this is where the actual video files are hosted), you should be fine.

Bluto

Matt_Stevens said:

Hey all, I just noticed that my Jedi v2.5 AVCHD ISO says v2.0. So naturally I went to myspleen to download again… and the ISO is v2.0.

Am I missing something?

Don’t worry - you do indeed have v2.5. You can check by looking at the DEED credits after the movie credits where it will say v2.5.

I noticed the same thing when obtaining the AVCHD from the paradoxical place; the rars were correctly named, but the ISO had “v2.0” in the filename upon extraction.

Bluto

JEDIT: I see DL beat me to it 😃

yoda-sama said:

Harmy said:

I’m actually thinking about releasing the next version with english tracks only and then including links for all the different dubs and instructions on how to add them.

For 3.0 this I think would be a good choice going forward, if you’re considering it for ESB v2.5, I’d recommend keeping the usual vast array of audio and subtitle choices one last time so as to stay consistent with the final v2.x versions of the other films. If Star Wars v2.5/7 and Jedi v2.5 all have these audio options built in and only Empire doesn’t, it would really stick out. And you know how people can be, we’ll just end up with even MORE questions to answer about what version is correct and why, how do I put this track in, how do I listen to that, how do I mux/demux this or that, I want to watch Empire on my refrigerator’s LCD screen but listen to the Austrailan audio thru my USB phonograph setup and it worked on the other two movies, etc.

I’ll be over the moon with ESB 2.5 whatever audio options are built in by default, but yoda-sama’s post makes a lot of sense. I agree that it would be more logical to keep the usual audio tracks in the final 2.x release.

Bluto

Dreamaster said:

dahmage said:

Bluto said:

Thank you for uploading this!

Please could someone advise me the tools necessary to convert the original Grindhouse ISO (Blu-ray compatible) so that it uses Dreamaster’s video file?

I’d like to be able to burn it to disc and play it on my standalone player.

Bluto

well, that depends on how Dreamaster encoded this, if it is still a blu-ray compliant x264 stream it should be pretty straight forward… (ish)

Aye… it was encoded with x264. The program you’re looking for is called TsMuxer. It’s pretty straight forward.

Thanks - I shall give it a go. It’s impressive how consistently good your results are with the single-colour pass.

Bluto

Thank you for uploading this!

Please could someone advise me the tools necessary to convert the original Grindhouse ISO (Blu-ray compatible) so that it uses Dreamaster’s video file?

I’d like to be able to burn it to disc and play it on my standalone player.

Bluto

You can mount ISO files natively within Windows 10 (not sure about Windows 7 or 8): right click on the ISO and simply select “Mount”.

The ISO then appears in the list of drives “attached” to the PC; VLC can open such an AVCHD drive as a Blu-ray disc.

(It is also possible to look inside the drive with Windows Explorer, and copy anything useful found inside.)

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