CatBus

jzilli said:

First of all, Harmy, v2.5 looks spectacular. Well done! Thank you so much

Is it just me, or is the audio out of sync? I think the audio is behind the video a bit. I notice this whenever a human is talking, but also at the beginning of the opening crawl (“STAR WARS” is noticeably displayed before the audio comes in). I’ve only tested the MKV with the 5.1 audio - I can test the other audio tracks and the AVCHD when I get home tonight. I’ve tested on two different PC’s, using Plex and Kodi.

Some software players have trouble decoding DTS-HD fast enough, and it ends up lagging behind the video. I haven’t noticed anything. Try an AC3 track, which is less decoder-intensive.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Thank you for the share!

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but, when muxing the MKV with TSMuxer, I found, to create a functional BD ISO, I needed to set, under “General track options,” “Do not change SEI and VUI data” rather than the default “Insert SEI and VUI data if absent.”

Has anyone else trying to burn had this experience?

I encountered a similar instance with HAL 9000’s fan edits of the Star Wars prequel; it’s apparently something to do with how the original MKV is encoded.

Yep, although I re-encoded it, because I didn’t know about any silly quick fixes…

TV’s Frink said:

Why I never.

I thought you didn’t even.

PM sent.

Also, to keep you updated on the status, Project Threepio has been a 720p native project from the start, and 1080p subtitles were created by just upscaling the 720p ones. I’ve decided to finally switch that around–the next version will be 1080p native and the 720p subtitles will be downscales. The visible difference will be minor, but it will look a little better, and just going through the exercise has helped me find quite a few subtle bugs. It will take some time, though, as it involves re-rendering every subtitle.

quin82 said:

CatBus said:

In my case, it’s probably both.

Is it the same problem with spleen/torrents for you?

No torrents worked great in this case, so I have it now. But my Internet service is dismal under ideal conditions, no question about that, and there is likely some throttling on top of that.

In my case, it’s probably both.

bishabosha said:

Wario64I said:

uloz.to too slow

I downloaded the 22GB version in 4 hours from uloz.to, average 2MB/s is that slow?

I averaged 0.00016Mbps. Apparently mileage varies, even especially on the Internet.

Bobocop said:

Wario64I said:

uloz.to too slow

If you had started at uloz right away, you’d have it by now 😉

Maybe not. I started the moment it was announced, and if I hadn’t switched to the torrent, I’d still be downloading from uloz right now.

Podes said:

Thanks for reply. The other Region 4 Gout DVDS are in Spain spanish no?

Oh yes. As far as I know, the only ways you could get the Latino dubs for the other films was to record a TV broadcast, or snag a 35mm print. Luckily, we’ve done both 😉

Harmy’s always tried to make his encodes Blu-ray compliant in the past. I suspect the creation on non-compliant streams will be left to the re-encoders out there.

Another NFO mistake, I’m afraid, unless Harmy used a different track than I’ve got. Castellano tracks are from the GOUT, with a little weirdness on the track for Star Wars which is available as a fixed separate download–not sure how it happened exactly, but the Castellano and Latino mixes got merged for a while on that one, possibly a bad early GOUT pressing.

Oh it’s absolutely not the latest version (I think that was version 6.2 or something), although I’m not sure Swedish has gotten much in the way of updates. Definitely download and work on the files from version 9.0, though, just in case.

I think a lot of Nordic languages could benefit from a more thorough translation, because I think they use a lot of summarization. Finnish has already gotten a big improvement in this regard, I’d be delighted if Swedish did the same. Let me know if you need a download link.

Podes said:

After downloading 97’ Respecialized I will download Episode VI 2.5! Great work!
Where did you get the original Latin audio?

The Latino audio for ROTJ was actually the easy one–it was on the Region 4 GOUT DVDs. Star Wars and Empire were harder–(mostly) 35mm capture and OTA television recording, respectively. ROTJ was stereo, which is probably why Lucasfilm didn’t try to bury it like the other mono Latino dubs.

So 3 and a half days to download is long, then? Sigh, my Internet connection.

Hm, slower going than usual. In about 6 hours, I should have 7.3% downloaded.

stretch009 said:

No need to wait, it’s at Tehparadox right now.

I’m searching all over there and I’m not really sure it is.

EDIT: Found, thanks.

I have a wild and happy idea… Harmy, does this bonus mystery have someone else’s username attached to it, perchance?

Oh dang, I blame the new forum for not reading the last few posts…

Yes (for Star Wars, it’s 192 and 64, but yes). And they have other identical quirks (dropouts, etc), so they’re just the exact same audio re-encoded.

I’ll go ahead and do what I can with what I have. At the very least with a mostly-synced track, it’ll be easier to get a complete track if we get new source material down the road.

Hm, the Hindi trilogy audio isn’t as complete as I thought. The Star Wars dub at least has been edited already (haven’t worked on the others yet), and while most of the issues so far have been things I could work around, one hasn’t been.

Han’s lines: Looks like an Imperial cruiser. Our passengers must be hotter than I thought. Try and hold ’em off.

…are in English. It’s pretty clear that the person who synced this did it over an existing English track, because there’s a couple instances of fixable English bleeding over where it shouldn’t be. It’s clear to me they just missed this line entirely. If anyone finds a Hindi dub without this problem, let me know. I’ll go ahead and sync the rest, just in case the missing lines turn up, but it’s a bit of a letdown.

No way is he scaling up 8mm frames that aren’t even a complete set. Even crazy has its limits.

Well, I’d have said SW81, but you also don’t have SW04, so that’s not it. You have no re-eds for any other films, so that’s not it either. Could be ESB70mm, but that’s pretty much an all-film project and we’d have gotten wind of it before now. Which leads me to the only reasonable conclusion: Hardware Wars.

moviefreakedmind said:

Actually I guess there’s really no way to Despecialize the HS

Some things are just so special they can’t be undone.

Hmm, given your recent discussions with Laserschwert, I have a suspect in mind.

Harmy said:

Putting the finishing touches on the last couple of things I wanted to do for ROTJ v2.5 - now I’ll have to put them into the cut and render the whole thing out - hopefully I’ll have enough time to do that today and render over-night.
One last thing I’m missing (I thought I had this but can’t find it) is the 1993 LD commentary. Does anybody have this? And ideally, I’d love it if someone would be willing to make me one like I always made for the other movies - with the silences filled with the '93 stereo mix.

I could probably put that together pretty quick. 224k AC3?

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