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I would be happy to preview this too, Possessed. :-)

Yea, for the sake of your neighbors!

mink23 said:

Chewie, you just made my day! this is great news!

You are welcome!  As soon as I read that article, I thought of you guys. ;-)

PM sent.

The settings look all right to me.  Have you tried burning the AVCHD to disc and seeing if it works in a stand-alone player?

Yes; I have heard that the extended edition was broadcast by mistake, but I do not know for sure if this be true.  Did someone cap the recent broadcast of the 1997 SE of SW? 

I agree with you about encoding 720p to DVD-9.  1080p is usually too much for a DVD-9.

Yes; TTT was broadcast in HD.  If you do not have the original broadcast I suggest you join newsgroups and download that rather than working from an encode. 

The Blu-rays have their problems, but the DNR and EE mainly  affects the FOTR.  TTT and ROTK are not too bad, and have better overall picture quality than the HDTV captures, which, though good, have problems of their own. Bill Hunt offers a balanced perspective on the issue.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviewshd/bdreviews032310.html#lor

I recommend using the Blu-rays as your main source and adding in the HD scenes from the EE of the TTT.  For ROTK, you will have to upscale the PAL DVDs, as you have said, or be patient and wait for the EE Blu-rays to come out. 

This sounds like an interesting project.  I shall keep an eye on it.

Harmy said:

 I'm gonna be working in HD, although it will probably only be 720p as I'm gonna be using a lot of the extended editions footage, which is only available on DVD.

PM sent.

Harmy said:  Ep1 is the only one I have just in 720p, so if it is sourced from an SD master, it's not really worth getting in 1080p.

In my opinion, the AVCHD is worth downloading for Adywan's color correction alone, the master notwithstanding.

JediTray said:

Wow, you intentionally look at TPM?

Lol!  The HD broadcast of TPM does look the worst.  When the prequels hit Blu-ray it should look the best, as it was filmed on real film not HD cameras.

JediTray said: Really?  I thought the quality would be equal, or at least negligibly lower.  Hmmmm....

If you transcode, you will always lose some quality.  As I said, the loss will probably be small, but as you have a media player and do not need incur any loss, or use up time and a disc, I wonder why you would bother, but it is up to you. :-)

JediTray said:

I do have a media player, but for the MKV I would rather burn it to Blu-ray. 

That seems a little strange to me, as unless your Blu-ray player can play mkv files, you will probably have to transcode the MKV to make it Blu-ray compliant, resulting in a small quality loss.  Still, it is up to you.  :-)  You can find the MKV in the same place that you found the AVCHD. 

adywan said:

there is a 1 frame glitch on ESB during the title crawl but it's only small. I don't know what caused it because it isn't on the master but that is the only glitch & the fox fanfare isn't cut off at all.

Is the glitch just on the AVCHD, or is it on the MKV too?  I have never actually noticed that one frame.

JediTray said:

I suppose I can live with the glitches on TESB, but the editor/perfectionist in me hopes for a fix at some point.  The best film deserves the best playback, IMO.

If you have a media player, you could download the big MKV.  The glitches might be a result of burning or the media you used I suppose.  Do you verify your discs before burning?   It is always a good idea.  I suppose you could try again with different media, but whether it will help or not I do not know, because I have never heard of this problem with the AVCHD of ESB.

Harmy said:

I said that somewhere in the thread before

Sorry!  It must have slipped my mind.

Harmy said: I was also thinking about making a 1997 SE reconstruction like Adywan did for his TESB AVCHD.

That would be a good idea.  :-)

Use tsmuxer.   If your source is an ISO, you might have to mount the ISO with Virtual Clone Drive, before you follow this procedure.

1. Open the m2ts stream by navigating to the Stream folder, which is inside the BDMV folder, in the AVCHD.   
2. Uncheck the audio streams, then import the AC-3 file I sent you.
3. Check the option to convert the video frame rate (24000/1001).
4. Check the AVCHD radio button and start muxing.
5. Burn your new AVCHD with Imgburn.

In answer to the other question you sent via PM, it is not necessary to do this for ESB because that is already at the correct frame rate.

edited - I only just followed Darth Mallwaker's link.  Forget my statements about the repack.

Harmy said: Can anyone help me get the 1997 LD 5.1 audio for Jedi?

Was the 5.1 an upmix of the theatrical stereo mix merged with 2004 SE 5.1 then?

Either way, I have uploaded the re-encoded audio, so that should save JediTray some hassle.  PM sent.

Imgburn is good.  Memorex discs are awful.  The best dual-layer discs are Verbatim from Singapore.  Sony are not bad.

I shall let you know about the audio. :-)

I do not know.  I have no experience with Windows 7, and cannot imagine how to perform this conversion without Besweet and eac3to.  If I can find time, I shall convert the audio for you and upload it; then you will only have to worry about the video.

edited - I do find it strange that you have problems with ESB -- no matter how small.  What program are you using to burn the AVCHD and with what media?

I have never heard of the problems you describe with ESB.  ANH was encoded with a frame rate of 24 fps, which causes problems on some players - especially Sony and Pioneer players.  There is a fix earlier in the thread.  If I can find it, I shall edit my post.

edited - This is the procedure.

1. Load the AVCHD into tsmuxer and demux the audio.  Keep tsmuxer open.

2.  Use Besweet to convert the audio from 24 fps to 25fps.

3.  Load your new audio file into eac3to and convert from 25 fps to 23.976 fps

4. Import your new audio file into tsmuxer and check the option to convert the video (24000/1001).

5.  Check the AVCHD radio button and start muxing.

6.  Burn your new AVCHD with Imgburn - UDF 2.50.

The colors were slightly different on the DVD transfer, but I do not think there is much in it.

I love this blog.  It is brilliant!

captainsolo said:

DTS can be beneficial for some films due to the higher bitrate

Well, Dolby maintain that their compression is better, so their tracks do not need higher bitrate.  :-)  Some films might sounds better one way or the other, but I think that is how the tracks are made rather than the compression used.

Thank you for posting that you do not care much for DTS-HD MA,  Jedi Temple34.  I too am a Dolby fan.  DTS is a waste of space on discs that should be used for video bitrate. 

As to whether one should buy Star Wars on Blu-ray or not, I feel torn.  I have no wish to fund Lucas' campaign to erase a part of cinema history; nontheless, I like to purchase copies of films that I own, and as I have watched HD versions of all six Star Wars films, morally I feel I should buy them.  I do not mind having an HDTV version of a film when no HD version is yet available to buy, but once it is available, I usually buy it.  This really is a dilemma for me.

@doubleofive

Your receiver is probably just playing the core of the Dolby TrueHD, which is essentially Dolby Digital.  DTS works in the same way.  If one has a receiver that can receive standard DTS, it will play the core of DTS HD mixes, which again is essentially standard DTS.