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#920715
Topic
Team Negative1 - The Empire Strikes Back 1980 - 35mm Theatrical Version (Released)
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FYI, the NFO of that wmv starts:

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The Empire Strikes Back - Grindhouse (version 2-DCP sourced)

Welcome to our second official release, the 35mm version
of The Empire Strikes Back.


January 2015,

As a thank you to the OT community, and our fans, we are releasing another early version of the movie. We hope…

So I’m not sure exactly what this is, but it says version 2 (whereas the previous grindhouse was called “v1” within the filename I think).

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#912458
Topic
Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
Time

towne32 said:

VLC doesn’t seem to be playing nicely with this for me (it does not like Blu-rays with menus). I did my testing on PS4, PS3, PowerDVD, and Total Media Theatre. Your vlc may be set up better than mine, though.

You can definitely watch the m2ts files in VLC. But everything up to and through the crawl is a separate m2ts. So you’d need to click the next one when it’s done, or make a playlist or something. Or wait for an MKV. 😃

So I just tried it (even though it’s still downloading 😃).
I loaded VLC and did “open folder” and selected the whole thing. It queued up a playlist on it’s own, and added both crawl’s (0000, then 0001, then 0002 m2ts files).
Anyway, that’s good enough for me. I’m sure I could set it up to skip one or whatever. I don’t know which one I’d prefer. I didn’t even know there were 2 of them until this thread (ya, I’m a noob when it comes to this original trilogy stuff!).

Thanks again.

edit (sorry, too much of a noob to say Jedit): Those using VLC. There is another (way).
Media->open disc. Then in the dialog that opens, pick Blu-ray radio button (keep the “no menu” checkbox checked), then browse, then go to and select the main “Harmy’s Star Wars Despecialized 2.6 (Towne32)” folder, then click “Select Folder” button.
It then more seamlessly plays just 1 crawl and then the main film (without closing the window and opening it again like it does with playlists).
In this case it chooses the “A NEW HOPE” crawl. I’m guessing if I just rename the m2ts file to something else it would skip it and play the other file.
Ok tried it. Just renaming the 0000.m2ts file to something doesn’t work. But if you rename the 0001.m2ts file to 0000.m2ts (and name the original 0000.m2ts to something else first), then it works.

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#912382
Topic
Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
Time

Thanks a lot for this.

I’m pretty sure I know the answer, but I want to confirm before I delete.
This release basically deprecates both “Star Wars Harmy 2.5 Recolorized” and “DeEdv2.5”, yes?

I guess the other 2 I mentioned are MKV’s and this one is BD, but I think I can play the BD format just as well with VLC or whatever media player, so I should be fine on that front.

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#908133
Topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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baunders said:

…When I attempt to open the file ‘frd.jar’ a pop up says “frd.jar is damaged and cannot be opened” bearing in mind I’m using a Mac.

I’m not a Mac expert. At all.
Maybe your java isn’t installed properly? And even if it is, maybe your system doesn’t associate ‘jar’ files to open with java correctly?
Can you open a shell prompt, go to the folder with the jar, and type something like
java -jar frd.jar

?

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#908026
Topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
Time

pittrek said:

Well maybe it would help you if you would select a different mode, e.g. View->Tree and you would get the required information without demuxing the file 😃

Hah, oops.
You know the part where I said “I couldn’t figure it out with MediaInfo…”, I really should have said “I didn’t bother trying to figure it out…”.

So with tree view, there is more info.
Shows same “nominal” bit rate of 13.5 for video. But claims the Max is 40.
Bitrate

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#907953
Topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
Time

(A slightly old version of) MediaInfo says 21.0 Mbps for “Overall bit rate”. Not sure why it doesn’t specify the video-specific bit rate.

Bitrate

edit:
Since I couldnt figure out how to show it right in MediaInfo, I extracted video (and audio) track(s) separately, and put them in MediaInfo.
Video alone seems to be 13.5 Mbps.

Video:
Bitrate

Audio:
Bitrate

Hope this helps.

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#907693
Topic
PS78: Pre-ANH Star Wars Bootleg VHS from 1978 ***"RAW" DVD RELEASED***
Time

Wolfcarnage, if you are on myspleen, just go there and search ps78 and you’ll find it. And there’s a few seeders so you should be able to get it.
If you don’t have an account, I could probably get it and put it somewhere you can have access…

In any case, I’m glad you posted that question. I’m relatively new to this site and your post caused me to notice this thread. Ended up reading the whole 19 pages (though glossed over a lot of the technical posts as its all way over my head). Anyway, it was a really cool read. And so much hard work by AntcuFaalb.

Anyway, I don’t think I’d get it to watch it. As I said, its kinda out of my realm of understanding, and I’m too much of a noob to appreciate it like many others have in this thread.

I’m more interested to know, was this used to help with other versions of releases (like Harmy’s, etc). There was talk in the thread that the colours (and maybe other things?) can be used as a reference for other projects, did that end up happening?

Thanks.

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#905762
Topic
DESPECIALIZED EDITION <em>QUALITY CONTROL</em> THREAD - REPORT ISSUES HERE
Time

Oops, quick edit of this post, just to note this is for the new ROTJ 2.5 MKV.

Hey. I noticed something very small and basically inconsequential.
The video is not really affected. Let me explain.

Basically, I noticed at the end, after the main end credits end (at 2:11:40), the time bar jumps to 2:11:45 instantaneously, then changes directly to 2:13:20 (the full length of the video) for the duration of the extra despecialization-specific credits.
The only (very minor) negative impact i noticed with this, is during that time I can no longer skip ahead or back as I normally could – if I try, it (usually) just jumps to the end.
That and I guess I cant see exactly what time point I’m at for the final couple of minutes.

So maybe somehow the appending of that final part of the video was done differently?

I noticed this, by the way, using VLC 2.1.5 on Windows 7. I have not tried it on any other player.

Just to show you, the first pic is when its working fine, just before 2:11:40.
WorkingFine
Then I see it go to 2:11:40, then 2:11:45, then immediately to:
BadTimeCode

Thanks for the work. And sorry if this is a stupid bug report.

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#905671
Topic
Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
Time

canuckerfan said:
Wouldn’t mind a pm myself please

Ryrynz said:
I’d like a PM too please.

Check PM’s.

As a general note, I uploaded the files to mega. Didn’t know how best to do it, so I put the MKV as one link on its own, and the rest of the files I zipped to a separate file. If anyone likes, PM me?
Or if there’s a better way to put it up (split as rars, etc), let me know.

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#905528
Topic
Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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ilovejarjar said:
It’s obviously a sarcastic username. Who on here in their right mind would love Binks?

Too late. I am now a fan. And it is all your fault for being helpful 😃.

bromeo said:

Sorry SnooPac, I sounded a bit like an ass there but I meant that software in the guide where you are supposed to copy/paste links. And then the download starts. I just finished mine. 😃

No problem. I didn’t take it like that. I took it like you were trying to help. So all is good.

Darth Lucas said:

Only at 40% on the spleen =.=
I’ll seed overnight when I have it though.

By time I started it, the pack was at ~65%. I’m now caught up with everyone at 82%, and ratio has caught up and passed 1.4 now. Yay.

HanDuet said:
This is the first I’ve heard of Uloz.to being ISP blocked. TUIG (https://goo.gl/1WGHBA) provides a way to circumvent tehP (https://goo.gl/5Sif60), but I’m not sure if that will resolve the issue. SnooPac, using the supplemental guide I just linked to, are you able to successfully start downloads with FRD (Section 4 of TUIG) without visiting Uloz.to, or does FRD give some sort of error because of the ISP block?

Feel free to send me a PM to further troubleshoot this issue. Perhaps we can find a solution and update the guide accordingly!

It’s not really my “ISP”. It’s my seedbox (and I tunnel my internet through there etc). I already emailed the seedbox company, to see why this is broken. But from my experience they won’t help much.
I didn’t try FRD, but I tried JDownloader which I already have installed (I believe JD is also in the ultimate guide), and it would not work. It reports all the parts (from uloz) as being offline. So when I manually go to the uloz.to site, it gives me that error. So no matter what software I use, if its trying to get the files from uloz, it will not work until my seedbox company gets unbanned from uloz.

Anyhow, it’s a non-issue now, as I’m downloading and uploading from myspleen (85% now, 1.51 ratio 😃 as I continue to type).