SnooPac

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-V25-MKV-IS-OUT-NOW/id/12713/page/612#1029111

towne32 said:

…I think I’ve seen a half dozen attempts on myspleen of people ripping it to MKV… Not sure if anyone has actually nailed it yet…

There is an MKV version of SSE 1.6 up there btw. Actually, there are 2 (the 2nd one, I think, is the same thing but with a 5.1 audio track added).

scotterg said:

I am interested in a MYSPLEEN invite specifically. Sick of trying and failing to get all 300-something tiny files downloaded from mega.

Anyone willing to graciously provide me with a Myspleen invite, please?

You could get a program like jdownloader or equivalent to get all the files for you.

Kane201 said:

I am also looking for a MYSPLEEN invite if someone could help me out. Found a link during my usual searches but its 35 gig. Was hoping to find something a bit smaller. Thanks!

The SSE 1.6 is 37.54GB.
An invite to myspleen won’t really help that. Unless there are reencoded versions of the SSE there, but I don’t think there are…

Scroll up to the top right corner, the speech bubbles will take you to your PMs.

There’s AVCHD versions that should each fit on DVD9s I think.
I think there’s also DVD5 versions (not sure how ‘official’ those are).

Rhydok said:

… There were a couple of graphical glitches (scene turned gray/white). Would that just be a problem with the download and or compilation process?

Were you using VLC player? I noticed that VLC sometimes does that for me. Clears up after a few seconds. If it’s really bad I load it with Media Player Classic and it never has those types of problems.

I’d also like to volunteer to continue lurking.

bryanltj said:

Oh my gosh I can’t believe I’m four years late on this. How can I get this? Can I still get this?

Check your PM.

Try again on spleen. Should be complete and going fast in some hours.

Owen37 said:
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Do you have link to the set you’re talking about ?

darthrush said:

It’s on the spleen as far as I know.

As darthrush said, they can be downloaded from spleen.
But if you want a link regarding the discussion of that release, and what is included, etc, it can be found on this forum here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Editions-Custom-Bluray-Set/id/49995

Check this thread for Blu-ray versions of despecialized.

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Editions-Custom-Bluray-Set/id/49995

Thanks mr Smithers. Looks like you and darthrush agree on ep2 and 3 (hal & l8wrtr). So I’ll likely try to grab those (eventually).
Will have to decide on ep1 though. Again, not something I’ll need to look into until after the originals.

OK thanks darthrush. I’ll maybe look into those after the originals. If he doesn’t want to watch the altered versions, maybe I’ll check them out for myself!

OK all, thanks a lot.
Now I know not to be searching for different bluray versions or anything. And I’ll hold off any fan edits 😃.

About clones wars, I’ve seen all those (many years ago now). I liked them in general (though I personally get annoyed with the overdose of ‘rah rah’ military stuff). But it’s what, 6-7 seasons I think. Might be better that I don’t introduce it to him, he’s hard to pull away from this stuff and it will occupy his whole summer probably with watching this all day 😃.
He has watched all of Rebels with me so far (season 1 binge, but season 2 as each episode came out weekly, which is better for him, I think).
So I’ll think about the clone wars stuff, but maybe not till later.

Thanks again everyone.

Let me start by saying this is for my kid, I swear 😃.

He’s seen the 3 OT films (despecialized versions only), as well as The Force Awakens. I tried to leave it at that.
But recently, he’s been playing some old games (specifically Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga). And he’s seen a lot of Lego Star Wars cartoons. Both of those have a significant amount of prequel stories in them.

So of course, the question came, “can I watch all the star wars movies”…
😦
So I’ve never really focused on prequels. Only seen them in theaters when they were released, and probably bits on TV whenever they happened to be broadcast while I was channel surfing?
Are there different bluray releases? Do you recommend he watches an official bluray release, or any of the fan edits? Keep in mind, he’s never seen the prequels, so I’m thinking an official release (first, at least). He’s 7 years old, if that matters.

Any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks.

I won’t have it downloaded here to check until a few hours. And I’ll be sleeping then, so I wouldnt be able to check until tomorrow at the earliest.
But in the meantime, I did a sha256 check:

$ sha256sum “ROTJ Documentaries BD25.iso”
12feaa8b386c18bdcdd5922f42a7c71ecba5484167aea100986bfaf9aa98cb58 ROTJ Documentaries BD25.iso

Just unpacking (which is all I’ve done so far) worked for me. Unrar program should tell them which rar file is broken, if it failed during unrar.
I didn’t check the ISO after extracting though.

MrPib said:

Can anyone tell me exactly how to play the ISOs with VLC and see the menus…

SnooPac said:

<paraphrase>works for me</paraphrase>

OK, I actually downloaded it and tried it. I couldn’t open the ISO file itself with VLC. So I mounted the ISO with Daemon Tools, then I opened VLC and did a Media->Open Disc. Then I picked the ‘drive’ (“E:\ - Return of the Jedi Despecialized” in my case), clicked “Blu-ray” option, and deselected the “No disc menus” option, then hit play, and it worked fine with the menus and everything.

Great job njvc.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to install Daemon Tools (or any alternative image mounting software), I think you can extract the ISO using winrar (or probably many other softwares), then just use that folder that is extracted when you “Open Disc” in VLC – everything else (deselecting “No disc menus” and selecting “Blu-ray”) would be the same.

Not sure the problem, but just in case, the check box is “no disc menus” so make sure you uncheck that box.
Note also, I’ve got it working with the team Blu tfa bonus disc. I have not tried it with this one yet. So it’s possible the format is different and causing vlc to have difficulties??

Edit: also note, I’m using VLC 2.2.4. Pretty sure it’s 64bit version – it doesn’t say, but I think i remember installing that version. And it’s installed in c:\program files\ rather than c:\program files (x86).

Ok. I think I misunderstood, I thought when you were asking for the SNL thing it was to include it. No matter, it’s still fine without it.
And even without testing the software player, it still plays pretty great, so all good there too.

So I got it and tried it. Only in VLC. The menus actually worked pretty well.
I was gonna complain that once you went into a ‘submenu’ (for lack of a better term), I could not get back out to the main menu, but that was just with using the mouse. It worked when I started using the keyboard, so I assume anyone who burns this to disc will navigate just fine.

I haven’t gone through all (or even much) of the content yet. But the stuff I did see was cool, and I hadn’t watched most of it before.

Also the video playing in the title screen is cool, highlights of the main movie, so I sat there watching the menu for a few minutes before getting to any of the features 😃.

Thanks for making this.

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1 thing. From the discussion, I thought the SNL thing would be included…but I couldn’t find it.

BMadden, check your pm for an alternate link.

RU.08 said:

SnooPac said:

Well, apparently the stupid mount edits the ISO file for some reason:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/149459/mount-o-loop-changes-mounted-iso-image-file
If I had just run the command with a “ro,” in there before the “loop”, all would have been fine.

If that’s the case then the ISO definitely wasn’t corrupted - it’s just a slight different .iso file with all the same contents. So it did not cause the glitches Blackout had.

Ya I doubt very much that it would have caused any difference, but who knows. And in any case, its best that it was fixed and that there’s a consistent version out there.

clutchins said:

Welp, it’s down.

What is?
edit: if you are talking about the original torrent, yes it was taken down and there’s a new one instead that has the fully correct file (you don’t need to redownload the whole thing, just like <1%).

FYI, it looks like we found out what caused those corrupt bytes (thanks again dahmage who actually seemed to find out what happened).
I haven’t tried to reproduce (I will soon), but pretty sure this is it.

I figured, after I got the RARs and extracted the ISO from them, the best way I could check the ISO was good was to mount it and browse the folders, check for BVMD and STREAM and all the m2ts files etc…
So I did a quick google search on how to mount ISO’s on Linux, and eventually I do the command:
mount -o loop Star_Wars_SSE_TN1_v1_6.iso …/tmp/iso
I go over to …/tmp/iso/, look around, all looks good, so I unmount and continue on.

Well, apparently the stupid mount edits the ISO file for some reason:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/149459/mount-o-loop-changes-mounted-iso-image-file
If I had just run the command with a “ro,” in there before the “loop”, all would have been fine.

So if I didn’t try to verify that all was good, then all would have been good 😃.
Oh well. You live and learn I guess.

Haha nice observation Faithwyn.