Moth3r

Now Harmy's signature breaks the forum in both FireFox and Chrome...

GOUT/Pwnage/ED sw77:

Just been reading back over the 2006 thread. (I swear if anyone starts an American Football argument this time around, I'm gonna bust some heads...)

England will inevitably go out on penalties to Germany or Argentina. But there's always hope.

So who's running the office World Cup sweepstake this year?

Well, there appear to be Rapidshare and Megaupload links for the Miami version at fanedit.info (confusingly, it's titled "Jambe Davdar Original Trilogy Documentaries - Episode 2").

I don't know if there was ever posted a torrent anywhere.

You're welcome - and thanks for starting a thread in the correct forum.

For a 2-hour long film, I would aim for 1400MB (especially if you're keeping the AC3). But then, I'm an old timer who still thinks in multiples of 700MB sized CDs...

The short answer is: you should aim for an average DRF of less than 4.

DRF, or quantization factor, is a measure of how much the video has been compressed. Compression artefacts start getting more noticeable and ugly with higher DRFs.

Achieving your target average DRF is a balance between file size (bitrate), resolution (don't forget to crop black borders) and compressibility of the source. I recommend you get DRF Analyzer and read the readme.

Are you aiming for a particular filesize? Remember you can also convert 5.1 AC3 into 2-channel MP3 to save space.

Chewtobacca said:

Can anyone suggest an optimal balance between quality and file size for an Xvid AVI?  The old 700 MB (1 CD) AVIs don't really look very good.   2 CDs wouldn't be far off the 1.7 GB though.

I could give you my suggestions, but I wouldn't want to take this thread off topic. Hint: try asking in the Technical Discussions forum... ;-)

...for the record, Han not only shot first, but he shot Greedo in the balls.

- Mike Verta

none, I would suggest you try asking this at the ImgBurn support forums - LUK seems to know pretty much everything about optical media formats.

msycamore said:

Sorry for bumping this old thread but did you ever get anywhere with this, Moth3r?

No; I'm still eagerly awaiting Max_Rebo's AviSynth filter!

Also do someone know if this picture is fake or real? it looks too good to be true actually. But if that is real that is some major achievement!

It's a real picture, but I guess we'll never know whether it came from a real video or not. Zion alluded to the fact it was from a clean up of the JSC LD, but his promised article never appeared and x0project.com is now gone.

bkev said:

Is there such a thing?  Pre-new matte possibly, but definitely there's no pre-Lowry HD transfer available.

I remember reading about a pre-lowry HD broadcast cap on here. I wouldn't rule out its existence.

I like it; well done!

PSYCHO_DAYV said:

I'M GETTING A BIT OF A SPECIAL ED. VIBE.

IRONY

Scrappy-Doo.

msycamore said:

... I simply cannot understand how you fine adjust the positions of the subtitles in frame, it seems there's only x and y values for left, center, right and top, baseline and bottom, not small pixel adjustments.

(x, y) positions the text by pixel coordinates, unless you set either of them to -1 in which case the text is centred. If you check my script you will see that for most of the lines I centred x, and set y manually:

subtitle ( \
text="Going somewhere, Solo?", \
x=-1, \
y=370, \
first_frame=70663, \
last_frame=70698, \
font="Franklin Gothic Demi Cond", \
size=36, \
text_color=$ffffff, \
font_width=10.5 \
)

When you centre x by setting it to -1, the align parameter defaults to 5 (center/baseline). If you want the fine pixel adjustments, you will have to set x manually - in this case, the align parameter defaults to 4 (left/baseline).

For the two-line text you show above, I had to set x manually, as otherwise both lines would end up centred horizontally instead of starting at the same indent position.

Correct display, Firefox 3.6:

Broken display, MSIE 8.0:

Erikstormtrooper said:

For ANH, I'd like to see at least 3 audio options:

• mono mix
• hairy hen's 70 mm 5.1 mix
• theatrical dolby stereo mix (this has been re-created, right?)

The 70mm mix is re-created, the '77 Dolby mix is authentic.

So it looks like this issue is related to the signature update problem and also probably this issue.

Frink's sig is cut off after 1000 characters, despite the profile edit page saying the limit is 3000. After the HTML code for the three links has been inserted, the closing gets truncated.

Firefox accounts for the code error and renders as intended, however MSIE 8 chokes.

Tried Star Wars Trilogy Arcade with the most recent version of MameUI, after the warning about the game not working I got a Sega logo then a black screen.

Last time I tried I got significantly more, however it's never been playable.

Yes, VSFilter (TextSub/VobSub) is a subtitle plugin for AviSynth and VirtualDub.

xhonzi said:

captainsolo said:

I still get a rush whenever I see this machine. I remember the first time I beat the Boba Fett level and the Vader level on the same play. When I find a machine that isn't modded (jammed joystick, unresponsive buttons) and with a good bright screen I can blast through all the way to the end on one play. I love the way the built in speakers rumble your seat. If there was ever any arcade game to have in my house....is there any other game where you get to fight wampas, duel with Boba and Vader by lightsaber, fight in both Death Star battles, fight on speeder bikes, fight the battle of Hoth and in Echo Base, play the battle of Endor, and virtually relive the OT?

 MAME?

 Is it playable yet? Not checked for a while.

R2D2 said:

i have posted the thx ultimate demo disc on a.b.starwars.

Yes I saw that earlier; thanks!

The built-in subtitle filter (documentation here) can only do halos, not drop shadows. You could however use it twice, once with a black text colur, then the second instance in white text and shifted up/left a pixel or two.

Or there might be a drop shadow effect in one of the external filter plugins.