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SilverWook said:

Having the creator involved to some degree is simply a good business idea, not to merely placate the fanboys.

I'm not sure--from a pure money-making perspective, I'm left a little puzzled about what exactly they think they're getting out of his involvement. There is no George Lucas cachet anymore--and hasn't been for decades--your average cinemagoer isn't going to say "Hey, look, a new George Lucas movie--let's see that!" the way they would over Spielberg or even, hell, Apatow.  They already have all the branding they can get in the Star Wars name--that's what they paid for, whatever that's still worth.  Maybe some additional cachet from the involvement of Harrison Ford and J.J. Abrams, but not much else.

So if what they're getting out of it just isn't a big name they can hang on the film, they must be counting on him to make actual creative contributions.  Which leaves me even more puzzled.  No, not a good business idea.  Not at all.

DragoonClawNZ said:

I also tried remuxing the MKV using MKVExtractGUI2 and mkvmerge and they both didn't go right too.

So has anyone else managed to remux it?

Yep, I actually used MVVExtractGUI2 too, and it worked fine, on the second MKV release.  The first (buggy) MKV blew up just as you stated.  Are you sure you have the right 2.5 release?

Also, I was remuxing using tsmuxer instead of mkvmerge so there's a possible difference there.

jdryyz said:

Interesting. My understanding of AVCHD was that it was an HD video standard developed by Sony that uses the H.264 codec and is fully compatible with the Blu-Ray disc format. So, if I have an AVCHD file structure, wouldn't it just be a matter of burning this to a blank BD with BD authoring software? That's my definition of trivial!

Again, terminology.  AVCHD when describing a disc layout is as you stated.  AVCHD when talking about the disc itself (particularly a DeEd disc, which has been distributed in this form before) is as I stated.  Which is why it's best to not use the word unless you're careful to specify what you mean.

As long as you create the right Blu-ray folder structure for a Blu-ray (just an option in tsmuxer), yeah, just burn the folders to disc and be happy.  I downloaded the MKV and maybe 30 minutes later had a working Blu-ray.  It is definitely trivial.

jdryyz said:

But isn't AVCHD native to Blu-Ray? I would think I could do the .mkv to AVCHD conversion then simply burn the AVCHD data to a BD25 disc with no loss in quality. Am I missing something?

Terminology problem.  AVC is a video encoding.  HD is high-definition video.  AVCHD is video encoded using AVC in HD and then burned onto a DVD.  If you plan on burning to BD-R, there's no reason to even talk about AVCHD.  When you say the word AVCHD, people immediately jump to the first step of how to compress the data so that it fits on DVD media.

Converting the MKV to burn to BD-R is trivial.  Demux the streams using MKVtoolnix or somesuch, and then use tsmuxer to put them into a Blu-ray compatible format.  I've already done this.

Farid said:

How do I add subtitles in BDtoAVCHD? It won't allow me to add anything :(

Never used BDtoAVCHD, but even if it doesn't allow you to add subtitles, you can still use it to create the AVCHD-compatible video stream.

Then just take the M2TS file created by BDtoAVCHD and demux it into its component streams using tsmuxerGUI.  Then remux those streams again, including subtitles, using tsmuxergui and setting it to output AVCHD.  The result will be an AVCHD with subs.

AntcuFaalb said:

h_h: The '77 English 2.0 track is the digital one from schorman13, right?

If so, do you plan to do the same thing with schorman13's TESB digital '80 English 2.0 track and ROTJ digital '83 English 2.0 track?

Thanks for all of your hard work!

The 77 stereo track is definitely from schorman13 and it's definitely cleaned up where I knew flaws existed.  It's the first thing I checked ;)

jdryyz said:

Which reminds mind, I am still looking for a BD burner. I have always been partial to Pioneer drives for my DVD burning in the past and have always had good luck with them, but the world of BD burning seems to filled with more complaints from all makes and models. It is hard to decide.

What drives do you guys use??

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Lets-talk-blu-ray-burning/topic/15287/
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Blu-ray-burner-blanks-discussion/topic/14472/

Actually DTS-MA mono assigns the audio to the center channel.  Yeah, you could work around player bugs by doing dual-channel mono--and in fact, many discs do use dual-channel mono because they re-use old mono tracks created for stereo systems with no center channel.  But mono coming from the center channel is actually better than coming from the front sides (assuming you have a surround setup and you're choosing not to upmix--how much better depends on placement), and it uses less space-on-disc, which for a lossless track is nice.  It's not a hill to die for, but I don't want the blame misplaced.

It's entirely an implementation problem.  DTS-MA mono is no more difficult to handle than any other number of channels--some designers just forgot or never knew true mono was an option.

Can I get just one rib?  I sure am hungry!

Harmy said:

BTW, I have the mono mix as a 300MB flac, so I could upload that if anyone wants it to replace the DTS-HD track with.

I'd be interested in that... but mostly just so I can encode a nice high-bitrate AC3 version of the mono mix--I'm pretty sure the DTS-MA track is fine and we're dealing with software/implementation issues.

According to the wisdom of the Internet, DTS-MA 1.0 is perfectly valid but it throws a lot of software players, and perhaps also hardware players.  I'll try it out on my Blu-ray player soon and see.

Well, I think VLC and MPC both just fallback to playing the lossy core, so maybe that's the difference.

I'm hoping h_h uploads FLAC or WAV versions when he does his big file release, so people can do their own encodes, but there's no telling when exactly that might be.

Oldfan said:

Just finished with all the parts of the fixed 2.5 mkv. I have a question about the audio tracks - is there something different about audio track 3? Because I'm playing the file in my mede8er media player and if I select any other track it plays just fine, but if I select track 3 there is no audio and the player freezes after just a few seconds and locks up and I have to pull the power plug to reset it. It really doesn't like track 3. Is there something wrong with it?

 

Well, I know my ArcSoft DTS Decoder threw an error and wouldn't decode it, but I figured it was the software's fault for not understanding DTS mono.  Anyone tried track 3 in a hardware player that does DTS-HD?

Also, I'm assuming there'll be an official DVD downscale at some point?  I'm assuming we might be waiting on a new lossy 5.1 encode from h_h.

Harmy said:

How do you figure it's not the original dub?

Well, I guess I should say if you got it from me, it's the home video dub.  The theatrical dub is out on the newsgroups.  Like the Hungarian dub situation, since there was more than one set to use, I just asked our source which was the most popular dub in Japan and that's the one I provided.

I've deleted my old 2.5 file so it'll take me some time to confirm.

Oh well, I think I caught another NFO error.  No biggie though--I'm pretty sure the Japanese dub is not the original 1978 theatrical dub, but the later home video dub (which I believe is more popular in Japan).  Unfortunately I don't know enough about it to say much more about the actual date.

Bah! Forget 2.5, I'm wondering if we're going to see inverted-mouth Luke in an ESB test clip anytime soon.

(but really--thanks as always, Harmy)

Stinky-Dinkins said:

The poison only works if the components are mixed. Hairspray won't do it alone. But hairspray mixed with lipstick and perfume will be toxic, and untraceable.

I'd say if you can demux and remux the tracks, any errors you have are now totally different than the current one.  I'm an optimist ;)

Actually after trying to do some work on the DTS tracks, it looks like all tracks (audio and video) have a glitch at that point.  I hope this means it's just an MKV container error!

FWIW: Demux worked fine, but attempting to remux the video errors out on frame 71426.  Got all my files from the original uloz links.  Looks like an encoding error :-/

Hey, Project Threepio 6.4 is from the future!  I'm at 6.2!

Harmy said:

Is it SW-pt-br-1.0-TV.ac3? That's the one I've got.

I'll upload the new one just to be sure.

Wait a sec... I actually GOT the less-muffled version from your 2.1 release, so you've got it.