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If you are using the director's cut DVD as a source, how are you cleaning up the video? I seem to remember that the DVD was still quite noisy.
xhonzi said:
It does when you hum with your mouth open.
Hardly!
It is not a blu-ray: it is an AVCHD; nonetheless, PM sent. :-)
Bingowings said:
One that really makes my blood boil is the use of the word "song" to describe any piece of music, as in, "What's the name of that song that plays when Darth Vader turns up in all the Star Wars films?".
You have noticed that too! What is it with people these days?
When I hum a tune, I am often asked what I am singing! Would you believe it? I have to explain that humming does not involve words.
TV's Frink said:
usage Farther and further have been used more or less interchangeably throughout most of their history, but currently they are showing signs of diverging.
Further is also used as a sentence modifier <further, the workshop participants were scarcely optimistic — L. B. Mayhew>, but farther is not. A polarizing process appears to be taking place in their adjective use.
Yes; this is true, but I am determined to resist attempts to polarise time-honoured variant spellings.
The rest is all double Dutch to me. :-)
TV's Frink said:
Add further vs. farther to the list.
I don't agree with this one. They are interchangeable and always have been. Further is more common in abstract senses, but that is about it; unless you meant that farther cannot be used a verb, which is true, but I have never heard it used as such.
canofhumdingers said:
Despite what Merriam-Webster might say, irregardless is NOT a word!!
I agree, but please give the word English a capital. Merriam-Webster? Pah!
Sorry, Moth3r! Again! I thought I was being sufficiently circumspect. I shall try to be more so in future.
Trigormike said:
What was wrong with 'Bring my shuttle' anyway?
It should have carried on with, "It's the one that says Bad Mother ****er."
Darth Mallwalker said:
I'm quite confident the ****** file matches the disc ***** **** **.
I've ripped that disc at least four times (at least twice each, on two different computers.)
Every time I've gotten the same CRC value, which the ****** file also shares:
1D930F31
Thank you for the information. I did not mean to imply that you had done something wrong: I was just wondering because G-Force said people seemed to be having a problem with that version, which seemed to imply that there were others.
I am extremely grateful for your efforts, otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch it at all. As I said, it plays fine on my media player, which can play almost anything. It is just a shame that I can't burn perfect working copies for friends.
edited - Just an update! I redownloaded and burnt it again and experienced the same issue. The film stops at exactly the same points, so it wasn't the burn or the extraction or anything like that.
C3PX said: Oh man! You are my new best friend!
Pleased to meet you, C3PX!
I thought of the Maltese Falcon too. I agree that the Falcon itself is a MacGuffin because it is simply there to motivate and evoke certain responses from the characters: it could, if the story were renamed, be replaced by anything else without detriment to the plot.
g-force said:
It sounds like people are having difficulty with the usenet version. That's too bad.
It's certainly a pity. This is a great release. I wonder why the ****** version is giving people problems. I'd love good copies of SW and ESB, but I suppose I'll have to wait.
I have redownloaded this and will try to burn it again to confirm that there is a problem.
I agree that a DVD5 is adequate for this, and HC is a great encoder, so no problems there either. I would recommend eac3to for the audio rather than Besweet as Pioneer players seem to have problems with anything encoded with ffmpeg/libaften and eac3to lets you choose another encoder.
I actually burnt this for the first time today, and the resulting disc doesn't play well on both my stand alone players. :-O Up until now I have only played it through my media player.
On my Pioneer BDP-51FD it says "cannot play this format" just when the crawl is about to begin, and stops. My Toshiba EP-30 does better in that it plays through the credits, but then stutters in the long pan down just before the Tantive IV and the Star Destroyer appear, seems to reset and then plays on.
Has anyone else experienced this on these players? It was burnt with good media. I suppose I could try downloading this again, but I don't usually have a problem.
Was Besweet used for the audio?
Moth3r said:
I've read good things about HC Encoder from respectable members on the Doom9 forum; although I've not tried it myself as I am so used to CCE. Apparently it is slower than CCE but produces comparable quality. It is wrong to automatically assume that CCE is way better just because it's a commercial product.
Quite right. I've read that too. It is most definitely slower - I've used both - but I don't think there's much in it quality wise. Even if it is almost as good, it is great that there is a free encoder for people to use that is so near the standard of a top commercial product such as CCE.
dark_jedi said:
Sure would LOVE to see a sample or something of this,I just can't believe that this version would be SO much different than the one I did,and I used a way better encoder,but hey,to each their own right?
and if it is SO much better than the other scripts,why not let some of us see what we can do with the script with our own encoders and settings.
I don't know. I wasn't trying to belittle your versions, mate. They were the first time I'd seen the proper original trilogy in true widescreen glory in ages, and I was absolutely delighted with them.
I just happened to put G-Force's on my television when I was doing something one day, and a number of other people came and watched and said it looked terrific, and it's only a single layer. I thought G-Force was going to release the scripts.
Which encoder did G-Force use anyway? HC Enc?
TheBoost said:
Lucas has robbed the term of all meaning, in fact he's robbed it of even a reason to exist. If the MacGuffin is the vital central part of the film, of great importance to the characters and the audience, then there's no need to have a term for it.
I entirely agree. This kind of abuse of language infuriates me. It is slowly robbing the English language of its precision and elegance. I seem to remember C.S. Lewis making a similar case in respect of the word gentleman.
This is all the fault of descriptivist modern grammarians with no respect for the traditions of the English language who are too eager to invoke the all-excusing "languages change over time" argument to accommodate all manner of sloppy uneducated speech. The day will soon come when have to use whole clauses and phrases to explain simple concepts for which we once had useful efficient words.
captainsolo said:
How does DarkJedi's GOUT project compare to this?
DJ's version looks a bit better. It is dual layer and has mono, 2.0 and 5.1.
G-Force's version of ANH is astounding. I cannot wait for ESB and ROTJ. I'm looking forward to them more than ESB:R and the other AVCHDs, simply because I love to see the theatrical versions looking so good.
zombie84 said:
The novelization was actually released in 1976, before the film! Not 1978.
I didn't say it was. I said I had a 1978 copy.
Enigmas said:
Hey thanks for pointing that out!
No problem! It just rang a bell when I heard the phrase mentioned, as I remember the book really well. I read it before I saw the film.
Taolar said:
Were the higher bitrate mkv's that you hinted at ever made available?
ESB was. PM sent.
I am not aware that any others were.
TheBoost said:
I think the story in the Elenium is less predicatble, and the world is more sophisticated and compex.
I had the same thought. I read the Elenium and the Tamuli first, as a friend lent them to me. Then I went back and read the Belgariad. I enjoyed it, but it never gripped me in the same way as the other too did.
I think reading the later trilogies spoilt the Belgariad for me a little really, as I was expecting the more accomplished writing Eddings did later on. It was for this reason that I could never bring myself to read the Mallorean. I did like Belgarath the Sorceror though, but Polgara the Sorceress just wasn't the same, as I never really found Polgara a likable character.
TheBoost said:
But its hard to get over our first love, and I read Belgariad in the 6th grade and it changed my life (which is admitedly easy to change in the 6th grade).
Understood! :-)
BRUUUUCE said:
I have tried every which way to get this to burn correctly and have been unsuccessful.
I don't really understand how there can be a problem. The file should be an ISO. You burn it with Imgburn, which pretty much takes care of all the details for you. Tick the Verify box for confirmation that your disc's burnt correctly.
Bingowings said:
The name Palpatine appears in the preface of Alan Dean Foster's novelisation.
The name Bingowings appears on the blurb of the novelisation, which states, "Everyone has bin gowing Star Wars mad since the release of the film".
TV's Frink said:
Shhhhh! We're making lame jokes in this thread.
I'm sorry for going on topic. :-)
TheBoost said:
So I found this picture on the internet. The characters are very recognizable as the heroes of the "Belgariad" a fantasy book series from the mid-80s that I'm a big fan of.
A fellow Eddings fan! I like the Belgariad very much, but I have to confess that I think the writing in the Elenium and the Tamuli is a little better.
I'd be interested in knowing where this image comes from and what it says too.