althor1138

@ Mallwalker, when I setup the drive account I will make the rar's the same size as the re-up so perhaps people can just grab the parts that are corrupt.  I will be posting the entire archive though so somebody can grab an entirely fresh set though.  This time without the pitfalls of server propagation that usenet has, it shouldn't be a problem to simply snatch everything without using par's to reconstruct everything.  I will make a new set of par's to accompany the set though just for the sake of completeness.

I've never had Vdub ever tell me that it's dropped a frame while capturing with my theater 750hd so I'm pretty sure that the 82P&S is all there.  If you are concerned about quality there is a 4.5gb version on the spleen which has no post-processing other than adjusted levels if you want to check it out.  I did do some noise reduction on the audio for side1 but not side2.  The raw files of course would still be entirely raw and you will hear some noise on the side1 audio.  Of course if you ivtc'ed and frame synced to the gout my captured audio would probably be the last source you'd want to use lol.

Thanks to everybody for the compliments on the JSC Trilogy BD-25.  Everybody else who helped me out with it really made it happen.  I just encoded the files and made the menus :).  Darth Mallwalker's IVTC scripts really are what have made this possible.  His references from earlier JSC captures and masochistic ability to manually IVTC all 3 films were invaluable!

This has proven to me that releasing your raw captures into the wild is the best possible thing to do. 

Anybody who is interested in getting the 97SE from me should PM me and I will send you a link when I have it prepared. I'll try to make each capture available for about a month each.  We'll start with making SW97SE available and then move on to ESB97SE and ROTJ97SE.  After I take down the links I won't be offering this anymore at least until online storage becomes free lol.

With that being said, should I generate new rar's from the raw avi's or is there a better way?

BTW, if anybody is thinking about uploading raw captures to usenet I would capture each side separately and upload them separately like I did with the JSC.  I haven't had any complaints about those uploads and they are mostly around 10-25 gb each.

I deleted the RAR files months ago. I have only the raw avi files now.

I would have to assume that all of the  97SE posts are bad at this point.  Although I know that a couple people were able to succesfully snatch ROTJ after downloading the extra files that I posted after the initial post.  The Re-ups were done because the first post of SW97 and ESB97 were not successful for the few who tried to snatch them(maybe you will be successful Arnie).

I myself test downloaded sw97 and TPM after uploading and was able to extract the files but it seems that none of them are complete now. It seems like if I post anything around the 20gb mark everything seems to work but going over 60gb with a post just isn't reliable.

Does anybody have any suggestions other than the drive account?  I'm not keen to upload them to the newsgroup again. Torrents are out of the question.

idyll said:

As there are many people without usenet access, would you mind if I posted the JSC Trilogy on MySpleen? This preservation should be shared with as many people as possible. Of course, I would give you full credit and post the contents of the "nfo" file in the description. Is that okay?

 That would be completely ok with me if you wanted to do that.  Thanks for offering to do it!

It will be awhile before I get the drive account set up but when I do I will post here when it's ready.

@Arnie.d , I'm not currently working on the 97SE trilogy but I would like to have something like the JSC BD-25 for the 97SE so I will probably get around to it someday lol.

It seems a lot of the big 50-60gb uploads don't propagate well from my usenet provider.

I can set up a Drive account with the files and share them out to anyone who wants them.  This would probably be a one time thing lasting only a month. This should be enough time for any die-hards that want to download a few 100 gb's worth of raw laserdisc files. This should bypass all of the problems of usenet. How does that sound?

BTW, thanks to Arnie.d for the cover art.  This is perfect.  How did you transfer all of the Japanese text with such good quality?

Schorman, I used multi-par to create the pars. I'm not sure if quickpar, for example, is compatible with the multi-par par's. Perhaps it would be worth it to try with multi-par.  If you aren't already doing that.

I would try to get schorman's laserdisc audio archive and simply use his audio files to sync to your project or capture video and audio separately.  Capturing without audio simplifies the whole process of capturing and reduces a bit of overhead that might be causing your system to drop/insert frames.  If you get 1 single dropped frame or 1 single inserted frame then might as well start over.  I tried to disable all of that resync stuff,etc. in Vdub. The timing options should all be turned off basically.  I never have to this day gotten a dropped frame or inserted frame using my ati theater750 btw.  I think if you tweak Vdub a bit you won't either.

Yay!  Burning them both right now.  Thanks again guys. This is going to be an awesome Sunday!

So how does one go about getting the PW for the archive? I got it all ready to unpack just need to know the magic words lol.

Thanks in advance for all of your hard work on this. I look forward to popping this in and checking it out!

Nothing new on my part.  I think as long as you have set the number of connections in server settings to the amount that your provider allows you should definitely see a big jump in speed. I have mine set to 20 connections because that is all my provider allows but I only pay 5 bucks a month so I'm pretty happy with them. I can upload at a bit over 1MB/s with this setup. With powerpost I was lucky to get a stable upload at half of that speed. I think it would be faster for me if the server wasn't a few thousand miles from me lol. 

It'll be interesting to see if you get better performance.  If not then I'd say it might be a physical limitation between you and the server.

doubleofive said:

althor1138 said:

It is.  I just spotted it and immediately ran over here and posted without looking.  My bad. 

Tack is complaining that this made it through at least 3 rounds of quality control at ILM/LFL, not at you. It's worthy to be brought up again, as an error introduced in the SE that remains uncorrected.

 Oh yeah, I figured that.  I just genuinely felt pretty dumb for not looking in the first place though, so that's why I posted that lol.

It is.  I just spotted it and immediately ran over here and posted without looking.  My bad. 

(EDIT: Ah nm. I found a post where somebody had spotted it previously.  Anyway, I guess I'll leave the post here.  Next time I'll do some searching beforehand.)

Ghost Luke!  Has anybody ever spotted this before?

This is present from 1997 onward from what I can tell.

dark_jedi said:

So are there any special settings I need to know with Jbinup?

 Not that I recall. I basically just input the necessary information like server ip, user name, password, etc. When I set up the server settings i checked the encrypted(ssl) check box and used the ssl port given by my provider to connect with. I also told it to use 20 connections to the server.  Other than that, I didn't change much.

I've never tested this but I think it would be this way:

First go to options and select 3000 lines YENC as the method for restricting block size to multiples of the unit. Make sure the program you are posting with is using 3000 lines and not 5000.

Here we have added 69 rar files at 100MB each. Slide the block count slider all the way to the right and then select sizing scheme all the same size.  At this point you could use the redundancy slider to select percentage and also set number of recovery blocks and recovery files.  This is not really precise though.  If you want exactly the number of blocks needed for 7 par2's at 100 megabyte filesize then I think you can take 274( number of blocks per rar file) and multiply it by however many recovery files you want.   So 274 blocks X 7 Files = 1,918 blocks. Plug this 1,918 number into the recovery blocks field and it will give you 7 recovery files at 100 megabytes.

Once again, this is untested but the best way to find out if it's wrong is post it and somebody will let you know lol.

I had pretty terrible problems using camelsystem powerpost.  It sounds great because it supported more upload connections so I thought it would upload faster, which it did.  Problem is it screws up all of the crc numbers so that none of your par's will work with the rar's that you upload. Perhaps it was user error but I've never had the problem since I stopped using camelsystem powerpost.

Yenc PowerPost has like 4 or 8 upload connections if I remember right and Camelsystem PowerPost has something like 12 or 16?  Jbinup has unlimited connections so you can set it to 30 or 60 or however many your provider will allow you to use.

Jbinup does everything that all of the old outdated powerpost programs do and more. The fact that it has unlimited upload connections and SSL built-in makes it the single best choice that I've found so far. It is more modern and much more stable in my experience.  I highly recommend ditching everything else and going with Jbinup.

As far as finding your stuff I'd probably just hit up a Newsgroup search engine and search for Team Blu in the NFO file or the actual title and see what pops up.

Multipar has several sizing schemes.  It should be possible to make the par's the same size as the rar's. I've always used variable size which makes a few smaller par's that double in size for each step and then level out at the rar size.  So the first few par's would for example be like 10MB, 20MB,40MB,80MB.  Once it reaches the size of the rar's it levels out at this size and stays there which in our case would be 100 Megabytes.

I'm using JBINUP to post with based upon recommendations from other users.  I can say for me it has been the most reliable and has never failed me whereas the other 2 I used before were quite flaky. I basically use all of the default settings and just plug in my username,password, and server information.

When I create rar's I've always set the file size to 100 megabytes per rar and selected no compression.

I use multipar because it works with win7 64bit and has a gui.

I think the simplest way would be to download tsmuxer along with tsmuxer gui.   Open up tsmuxer and drag the mkv file into it.  Uncheck any audio or sub files you don't want and then select bluray folder for output.  This should output a blu ray compliant bdmv folder that you can drag into imgburn and put on a bd-25. You will not have any menus but the movie will load up and play.

I will be snatching this so I will report any problems with downloading if I find any.  I really hope there aren't any.  It sucks to upload 60gb worth of stuff and then have somebody tell you it's all screwed up lol.  Thanks for the JBINUP recommendation btw.  It's way, way more reliable than anything else I've seen.

Clonezilla has worked great for me in the past.  It's pretty easy to install to a usb and then write the disk image to another usb drive as long as you aren't using raid on the OS. A 32gb usb stick ought to be able to hold an image of a fresh install of windows with all the apps installed that you'd want in case of a crash. Of course you can write the disk image to any other media other than the drive you are imaging. The clonezilla usb drive only needs to be about 200 mb in size.

Tuxboot will set up the bootable usb drive automatically with updated clonezilla.

kk650 said:

I got all three from there. I just checked Star Wars and it definately has audio. So do the other two in case you're wondering.

I see that you went for yub nub over victory celebration at the end of ROTJ, the two special editions are feeling a little neglected haha I'm with the two SE versions on this one, I prefer victory celebration, fits the end of the trilogy better IMHO.

Traitor! Haha j/k. Thanks for the confirmation about the audio.  For some crazy reason the one on the spleen is missing audio. I'm thinking that people will have to mux their own in for the time being unfortunately.  Btw, there is a version 2 possibly in the works that syncs to the 04 versions instead so you could watch every scene in entirety.  It will be a long time before it is finished though.

Can somebody who got SW:COLD from a.b.sw tell me whether or not that mkv file has audio ?  

Can somebody direct me to where I can get this? I've been trying for days to get it on the spleen but no such luck.

Haha, yeah this should definitely not be some kind of color grading tool.  It's more like a hey that's cool kind of thing.

It's also helped me notice several things that are different that I didn't notice before just by having them visually represented this way.