Darth Mallwalker

Ahhh . . . the good old days
M wanted to send a screener disc to B, but the postal service was on strike.
One thing led to another, then I got a sneak peek too :)
Had been reading some of that thread with Arnie but much of it flew over my head.
Actually seeing it for the first time was a real eye-opener.



G-force you're a class act. It's a pity so many end users won't fully appreciate your contributions.

I think I can match the old suprnova hashes, if you'll send a PM...


Edit:
Found them!

I'll always have a place in my heart for this Gonzo set.
I found those on suprnova before ever joining this site.
The doctor really did a fantastic job, and they still hold up well today (if you're watching the old 20" tele in the basement ;)
Dr. Gonzo was ahead of his time when he boosted the color saturation beyond the DC source.

a.b.starwars 637 days ago

Subject: Audio for GOUT projects

The "Making of" .NFO,s are on my burned discs as ROM content. (Those weren't seeded as disc images to begin with.)

In the case of bh004, I had burned the original image(*) way back then, and 'ripped' it just now.
I found its .NFO on an old hard drive. There's literally a pile of 'em on a shelf in my cupboard. Not organized or cataloged or anything like that, but I got lucky and found it on the first disk I checked.


(*) That original image I had got from usenet, before the torrent was created.

hdiutil(1) ?

Anybody else notice this on the newsgroup?

SW said:

- Aspect Ratio Corrected

Find all you never wanted to know about ISO-9660 filesystem structure there.
Grab the .PDF and look at section 8.4 which describes the Primary Volume Discriptor.

Here's what you're looking at in the hex dump above:

Moth3r said:

So the original mastering data is present somewhere on the physical disc, and is retained when Imgburn makes the image?

none said:

On your SWBegins example, does this mean that Jambe didn't create an .img, he burned everyone separately (from the video_TS folders)

Not long ago when M posted Star Wars Begins to usenet
first thing I did was to download the last RAR (part090) and extract the CRC from its header
because I wanted to check it against the disc JD sent me. It didn't match :(
So does that mean M is a . . . F-word? No, no, no!

Here's a hexadecimal dump from M's image file:

The highlighted parts are the mastering date.
With punctuation added, it's 2011-02-02 19:47:14 in JD's local time zone.
This disc JD sent me contains exactly the same VIDEO_TS files (I made sure of that) but mine was mastered the day before, or the day after I can't remember, so the ISO image is not exactly the same.

Even in this ''best case" scenario (presumably JD used the same software both days) re-creating the image would require to guess the mastering time with a precision to the nearest second. In the worst case, without knowing which software originally made the torrented image, synthesizing it becomes next to impossible.

Now having said that, this project sounds like a lot of fun. Count me in.
I see ten or more on walkingdork's "currently leeching" list that I can probably seed. Some of those were seeded as image files, but in those cases I would have saved the first few sectors from the original image and the last few sectors -- enough to reassemble the image without any guessing.

hint for interested parties


@TServo2049
EasyNews will get it soon-ish

Special Widescreen Edition (SWE) - Pioneer Video, Inc. (USA)
-------
Special Collection (Japan)





FWIW all three of those are '2' in the pulldown cadence.
In other words, that frame of film comprise two fields of video (not 3 fields) on all three LDs

It's 620 days old. EasyNews does claim 900 days retention for NNTP clients (but less for their web interface, as you've pointed out.)
I'd post it again. Sure, why not?

No worries.

I know what you mean about not building people's hopes too high.
After all, the Technidisc factory got some not-so-glowing reviews:

Blam Entertainment Group said:

Technidisc continued to suffer from generally poor replication. Most discs contain an excessive amount of single-line dropouts and all CLV/CAA sides suffer from excessive crosstalk on all laserdisc players.

Several have asked me that question. Probably they don't realize my primary workstation is a Pentium-III with 80GB disk.

About a month ago I did try capturing my LD using a stand-alone DVD recorder, but it turns out to be a steaming pile of Funai.
Refuses to record any of the four blank media flavors I've tried. Well it's probably a blessing in disguise.
Even in 1-hour mode, an MPEG2 recording with hard pulldown wouldn't be ideal.

More recently I've got an old file server to play with. It has MegaRAID card with three SCSI channels, and 18GB disk per channel.
In RAID-0 configuration the disk subsystem should be fast enough, albeit not very large capacity.
Motherboard has dual Pentium-III's installed (but the BIOS is so old it thinks they're Pentium-II ) running at 500MHz.
I wonder if that would be enough horsepower for FFVH codec (that's FFmpeg's HuffYUV implementation).
Maybe, just maybe it becomes a project and not merely an object.

One step at a time...

On Saturday I installed a different capture card.
It's nearly the same model (different revision level) and using the same device drivers.


Just like the other card, I'm not sure whether the right edge is getting cropped. :(

Sunday I cobbled together a Win98 box from old parts lying about
because I want to try the BT8x8 tweaker program in VirtualDub.
By adjusting HDELAY values in the tweaker program, I could shift the image to the left and actually see the righthand edge.

Yesterday I've recompiled my Linux driver, using the same HDELAY value I got from the tweaker program.
Here's the result:

You found one? Way to go msycamore !
After your glowing review, I predict eBay price will soon skyrocket :)
Not to worry -- if aleksbmw can't find one, I'd gladly lend him mine...

Harmy, if you think it would help your projects I could do 640x480 capture of the Mos Eisely drive-by from my own JSC disc or from this one, which now should probably be called "smear-free '92"

Nice job!

Since skyjedi mentioned it in this thread (as well as the other one), I'll go ahead and answer here. The Technidisc LD pressing ROTJ is also framed just like Asaki's screencap, and just like earlier SWE pressings, with a larger black bar on bottom where Japanese subtitles would have been. Also, it's side 3 is CAV just like earlier SWE pressings. So I file it in the 'not very interesting' category. Probably from the same D1/D2 master tape as Pioneer & Mitsubishi pressings.

Following Asaki's lead, I'll try and grab some screens from it to show framing.
And I'll get those mint markings for anyone interested like I promised earlier in this thread.

Well you might find it for sale in Cherbette's iOffer store someday...
...but first Cherbette would have to find another source.
I won't be seeding the rest of that torrent.

Thanks a lot Asaki for your troubles. I'll take a closer look at those later when I have more time...

^Too funny! I do recall when we looked at Adm.Ozzel's force-choke in 005's comparison thread. That time msycamore was GOUT-aligned and I was off by 15.
Great minds think alike? Or should we say Great minds making the same mistake. :)

Moth3r said:

Those frame numbers were actually worked out by Darth Mallwalker

TV's Frink should ask Elmo to teach TV's Frink about pronouns

Moth3r said:

ConvertToRGB32()

Cher... with tits on your back?
You got PM

...

Found this_one

Both Puggo's GRANDE & S.Krig have the burns, and both have pre-ANH crawls. So it seems the burn marks go way back.
Now I'm wondering why the mid-80's ANH laserdiscs don't show 'em ?