Harmy

I think it's the one you uploaded, yes.

It's a voiceover.

Also, the quality of the Portuguese 1.0 track I have is truly atrocious - doesn't anyone have a better one?

EDIT: Forget what I said about the Spanish Cast. audio, I just found out I do have a correct one as well.

As of now, it is something around 18GB.

OK, here are the soundtracks that will be on both the MKV and the BD:

Yes, thank you - that was the thing I couldn't remember - I hope I still have all the files in place to make it an easy fix.

When setting the languages for the audio files in the mkv, is there any way to distinguish the Castilian and Latino Spanish sountracks? Because "Spa" is for Spanish; Castilian, so is there an abbreviation for the Latino soundtrack?

Yeah, that'd be cool. So do you think you can get the 5.1 DTS-HD and the other 3 mixes in AC3 to me by tomorrow? Like I said, if not, I do have the older versions for those, but it would be cool to have the higher quality encodes for the mkv.

Yes, the same exact video stream, or that's the plan anyway.

That's no moon, it's a huge thread!

Happy 10,000th post everyone.

I'd like to thank hairy_hen, who, even though he's having some personal problems, found the time to send me the mono and stereo tracks in DTS-HD yesterday and he said I should be getting the 5.1 track very soon, and if by some chance he doesn't manage it, I do have a DTS-HD encode of his previous version, so the mkv will have the lossless audio for all three original mixes. He might also send me the '85 and '93 mixes and his isolated score track, if there's time, but I'm not sure I'll be including these in lossless in either the mkv or the BD as it would add extra 3GB to the over-all size and that's rather a lot.

There'll already be over 6GB of audio without them in lossless and that together with the video makes 18GB and the size of the mkv will also be quite gargantuan for 720p as it is and I'd rather have more that 2GB for the extras on the BD, because asside from a moving comparison of all the despecialized shots (which will be a fast moving 22 minute 1080p video, so that itself better be like at least 2GB) I'd also like to make a series of "Introducing the..." videos for the BD, which would be sort of FAQ videos. For now, I'd like to do the following:

1. "Introducing the Despecialized Edition"
What is the DeEd and why it was made.

2. "Introducing the Versions"
What are all the different versions. (Does anyone still have the Partly DeEd AVCHDs? I lost them in an HDD crash a while ago and it would be good to have some footage from the PDE for this doc).

3. "Introducing the Resolution"
Why 720p and not 1080p. This would be a 1080p video and it'd show this kind of thing in motion: http://imageshack.us/a/img821/1589/1080pvs720p.png

4. "Introducing the Sources"
This you've of course already seen - only the intro with the Ronto will probably be cut and put in front of the "Introducing the Despecialized Edition" doc.

5. "Introducing the Soundtacks" I'd dearly love to include this one but I cannot with clear conscience attempt to do it myself - I could do the video side of it, but not the audio side and the script of the narration.

I welcome any other suggestions you guys may have for more of these.


And one more thing: I remember there were some problems with some of the commentary tracks on the v2.1 AVCHD, which I'd like to fix before I mux the mkv, but I can't remember what they were - can anyone remind me, please (and I don't mean the leftover SE sounds, I think there were some technical issues).

Almost there! :-)

I have quite a long and informative post ready for no.10,000.

Yeah, I know, but I don't really think so, because I'd have to go in and redo each and every one of the titles separately, which would be a hell of a lot of work.

No, both are from Alien, only in v2.5, the timing of the fade in and out has been redone to fit with the way it was in SW.

This is pretty interesting. This guy basically rewrites the prequels to make them much better, yet he sticks close enough to the Lucas prequels, that a really ambitious fanedit might actually be able to incorporate a lot of his ideas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgICnbC2-_Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAbug3AhYmw

Well, I thought I made it quite clear, that if h_h manages to upload the lossless tracks during this week, I'll include them in the MKV as well, so there should be no need to mux them in.

Also, would you want our heroes to fight for the side that fights to keep slavery?

That's awesome news, hairy_hen! DTS-HD will probably be better, even for the BD, if I'm making it in multi AVCHD.

And I agree, with the bitrate of the 720p video being much lower that what is usual for 1080p BDs, I doubt we would go past the BD format's max bitrate.

Byakko said:

What's your preferred way to watch Episodes I, II, and III?

I would prefer not to.

Also, Ryan McAvoy, can I have your permission to post this on FB as a meme, please?

No, I'm not saying that - I will definitely try to make it work, that's why I said that the design is not the problem but making the menu actually work is.

Well, I wouldn't. For example Snow White on BD looks like it was animated digitally - it's been completely scrubbed of grain and even the colors seem wrong to my eyes, though I'll readily admit that I have no relevant point of reference for that, since it could well be closer to the original colors than the VHS and DVD versions I grew up with. And I hear they make minor cosmetic changes to pretty much all their catalog movies.

I'm quite convinced that there will be a BD release (or perhaps even 4K) of the OOT somewhere down the line, but I'm really afraid that they're gonna seriously fuck it up and then it will be the GOUT situation all over again.

This goes to show, that sports should not be invented by women, especially not as a plot device :-D

I second your proposition wholeheartedly!

Well, actually, looking at it now, with 5 different English mixes (3x77, 85, 93) and all the commentaries and stuff, it's well over 20.

Yeah, I am not considering Encore, since like I said before, it doesn't allow more than 8 audio tracks and I think I have like 15.

michaelkirschner said:

Adywan made some excellent menus on his Star Wars revisited project I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you copied his menu design exactly

Well, the actual design of the menu isn't the problem - the problem is getting the menu to work, which is much more complicated for BD than it was for DVD. I would be completely satisfied if I could make a DVD type menu - I could totally do without all the bells and whistles that were added for BD, like pop up menu and stuff - I actually have yet to see a single BD menu, that can compete aesthetically with some of the best DVD menus - for example both Star Wars and Lord of the Rings EE BD menus are a disaster compared to their DVD counterparts. I also prefer having several different pages to the menu - like when you go to language selection or chapter selection and the background and music changes from the main menu, rather than having a pop up menu with a united background in one loop under everything, like it usually is on BDs.

@hairy_hen: I'm really sorry to hear about your troubles - if you can get the audio to me during next week, it would be great but if not, don't worry about it, I'll just release the mkv with the lossy versions and then people can mux the lossless tracks in later - for the BD, I'll wait as long as it takes for you to finish them :-)

@DVD-BOY: It seems like I will be pretty lucky if I'm even able to do a basic menu, so I don't think I'll be using any advanced features like that.

@analog: I'm definitelly not using any method that would require re-compression - if I couldn't find a way, there simply would be no BD.