bilditup1

Jan said:

bilditup1 said:

Jan - not sure if I understood or not, but the par2 files are not part of my torrent. I didn't try downloading them till earlier today, and when I did, most of the downloads seem to have failed mid-way.

Sorry, I don't have an account at myspleen, so I didn't know that. What I meant though was that the par2 files on usenet differ from the ones Harmy created. The rar files are the same but renamed.

Gotcha!

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

Scroll up.  It's at TPB and 1337x now.  :)

Lol man. Your handle would be apt to apply to all the newcomers to this thread who apparently cannot be bothered even to read a post behind, let alone a page :) Can't begrudge it though. Once upon a time, I, too, was one of them

Glad that there's still multiple options for download! I wonder how the speeds are at tpb. 1337x I've never heard of but it seems to be a solid entry in the ginormous public tracker tradition

Jan said:

 The par2 files however are different, so you'd need to redownload them at myspleen

Jan - not sure if I understood or not, but the par2 files are not part of my torrent. I didn't try downloading them till earlier today, and when I did, most of the downloads seem to have failed mid-way.

Ripplin said:

walkingdork said:

I just made the torrent FREELEECH on MySpleen so you guys don't kill your ratios. ;)

Much appreciated! I hate to ask, but...any chance of doing that, at least for a little while, with the forthcoming AVCHD and BD versions? That would also be much appreciated! ;)

Lol dude, all you had to do was read the last page:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-REMASTERED-is-now-officially-released/post/592283/#TopicPost592283

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-REMASTERED-is-now-officially-released/post/592285/#TopicPost592285

innerSpaceman said:

Pfft, I'll go you one better (or worse) - I don't even know what myspleen is.

 

Though I can figure it out from context.  Damn, I'm old.  Eh, my computer set-up would likely take days to download something like this, even if I knew how.

 

But ... if anyone could answer a question for an old geezer who got his drivers licence about the same time Star Wars came out in '77, I'd appreciate it:

What's the difference between the download file that's apparently available now and the blu-ray file(s) that Harmy is planning to release later?  I'm not in any hurry, but I would so love to be able to watch Harmy's 2.0 at some point.  

The Blu-Ray will have the same video stream. Some of the audio streams will be in lossless, uncompressed format; there may be more translations and such added by the time the BD comes out, tool. There'll be some other secret goodies too...in addition to super-nice menus and the like.

The MKV that has been released will play in many of today's BluRay players, but will not fit on a standard dual layer DVD, aka a DVD9. You'll have to stream it over your network, or put it on a USB stick or external hard-drive (if your BD player even has a USB port. Meanwhile, you'd have to make sure your USB stick/hard drive is formatted in NTFS or some other format than the prevailing FAT32, because this file is nearly 16GB, whilst the file-size of single files in FAT32 is capped at 4GB. I don't use the USB functionality on my BD player so I dunno). The easiest way to watch this version, if you don't want to deal with setting up a network or copying this file to a stick, is to have a laptop with an HDMI out and using Media Player Classic Home Cinema for playback. If you're technically minded and don't have or want a BD player, I'd recommend getting a Raspberry Pi (I have one) or similar mini-computer, but for everyone else, just connecting your laptop via HDMI should be fine.

An AVCHD version, which is basically a Bluray shrunk to DVD size, will be released, with a bunch of the audio tracks stripped out and the video encoded at a lower bitrate.

Hope this helps.

walkingdork said:

I just made the torrent FREELEECH on MySpleen so you guys don't kill your ratios. ;)

Thanks Harmy!!!

LOL, walkingdork is a nicer admin than I'd be :)

flynn2000 said:

I guess I'll see this in a few day's now with the nill speed I'm getting from My spleen.

I'm sorry it's not going well for you right now, but I would stick around. There are now nine seeders on this now, one which has at least double my upspeed, but there are, as you can imagine, a lot of leechers, too. Patience...

Harmy said:

Yes, that scene was always this dark and was rather sloppily brightened for the SE. You'll also notice that the scene where Luke meets Ben is very bright - this look is also absolutely accurate to my IB source - It was so extreme that I was afraid to go there, so it wasn't that bright on any of the workprints but I decided to stay as accurate as possible in the end.

Aha, so I wasn't dreaming. I think that scene is a good test of whether your television or projector is properly calibrated or not.

Rox64 said:

Nice to hear that, there were some visible crushed blacks in the first release. Can you please tell me one example of completely crushed blacks that Harmy was unable to fix it?

Not really. Like Harmy said, he really eliminated that as an issue. There's one scene that I thought was particularly dark, when Darth Vader sense Ben Kenobi sneaking around while the gang is going to spring Princess Leia. But there's no reason to believe that that scene isn't true to the IB print.

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

Indeed.  Now I'm back to 4.7MBps.  I guess I'll just let it ride.

Lol, that's more than my max download, to say nothing of my upload, and my connection is considered 'fast' here. That's it, I'm moving to Kansas City

Rox64 said:

Hey guys, I have a question. Harmy has used a fade-free Technicolor print of Star Wars, so we can assume his restoration is 99,99% perfect in terms of colors. But what about crushed blacks that are present in the 2004 master used by Lucasfilm for the DVD and Bluray releases? Do you removed them with your magic skills, Harmy?

Yeah, the levels have also been tweaked along with the colors. There's far more detail now in each shot as a result. Easy to see during the 'Vader chokes Capt Antilles' scene at the beginning of the film.

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I wonder if that has anything to do with the bad bencoded data error I received at MySpleen when I tried to create a torrent there.

Possibly. I don't know enough about torrents. Meanwhile, here's the wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode

I thought it had something to do with base64 encoding but no, bencode is completely different. 

Oh, and I am now seeding from two diff locations (that's why it says there's two seeders). The second place has the same shitty up speeds most of America does, but hey, I might as well :)

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

Okay everybody,

I have taken down the torrent at 1337x and TPB.  I don't know where it happened, but I can confirm the MKV glitches around the 34 minute mark, and causes MPC to lock up and crash.  I guess that's what I get for just skimming before uploading it.  There's no way to tell when or where the fault occurred, so I'll be going after it on MySpleen and hopefully I'll have a better copy.  Between JDownloader and all the damn CAPTCHA's, WinRAR, and the act of downloading itself, I don't know where it happened, but it did.

My apologies, everyone.  "Hey, Your Worship, I'm just tryin' to help!"

*EDIT*

I have joined the swarm at MySpleen and I will seed my pants off.  I have incredible speed and will share as long as I am able.

Why I should stick my neck out for YOU is quite beyond my capacity :)

eros said:

Downloaded torrent file from Myspleen, Bit Tornado reports 'Bad Encoded Data'

I honestly have no idea. It seems to be working fine in general; there are now some 40 leechers in the swarm, including some heavyweight uploaders (with 2x my upload speed, an' tha's sayin' a lot). May be a good idea to make sure your client is supported or something. Not trying to be patronizing; just helpful...

vbangle said:

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I don't know what any of you are talking about with the TPB torrent failing.  It contains the MKV, along with the Threepio Project folder, minus the par2 files, pl files, and html file, BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED.  I did NOTHING to alter the MKV and it is fully intact, with all audio and subs.

Well you weren't supposed to extract the MKV yourself and then upload the MKV. You need to upload the rars and pars just like it was given to you by Harmy. And why? Because now we are screwed. If you had uploaded the rars and there was some corrupt files we could repair those, but as it stands we can't repair what you decided to upload.

Could you please start a new torrent but this time upload the rars and pars?

Harmy never specified doing so, and having to seed RARs is a PITA. Some trackers, such as the spleen, do not allow archives (other than disc images). Going forward, we'll know that it's a good idea to use PAR2 files whenever we have them though. I'm sorry you guys got burned but the dude wasn't out to screw anybody over...

Jan said:

Ok, I just extracted my rar archive which is definitely ok, and then verified the torrent at TPB. I'm really sorry, but I'm afraid it's indeed faulty. The first 3.83GB (24.3%) of the main movie seem to be ok, but from then on every single byte differs.

As a side note concerning the readme: Simply change the file type to .nfo if the tracker does not allow text files.

EDIT: When I advised Harmy to create par2 recovery files, my primary intend actually was that uploaders could verify and repair the files BEFORE creating mirrors or torrents.

LOL, wish I had known that earlier; glad that my files turned out OK all the same.

I am currently downloading the PAR2 files to double-check my upload but I've left the current torrent up just in case. I'm stepping out and it'll take an hour-an hour and half to download, just in case anybody is planning on holding off until I do so.

EDIT: I was just told by boongee that 'If you were able to extract the final product, your rars are fine.'  So it seems like this is pointless. So don't hold off! Come one, come all!

In other news: my upload speed is now maxed out at 3.0MB/s which almost never happens :) I usually limit it to 2.2 so that there's some bandwidth left for other stuff, but I think the occasion calls for it, don't you? :)

Airwave said:

 

bilditup1 said:

So I didn't touch the Threepio folders in anyway. Which extraneous files are you referring to?

The following files are present in the Threepio folder in the MySpleen torrent, but not in the TPB torrent: _README.html, prep_subs-match.pl, preb_subs-rtl.pl, prep_subs.pl, and the folder "vsfilter.dll", containing centerleft_mod_src.7z and VSFilter.dll. Whether they're supposed to be included or not, I don't know, but it's an anomaly between the two torrents.

 

OK. Those were part of the original download so I left them in. It's a shame that the tpb downloaders won't have the readme though; it's dead-useful.

If I'm uploading a corrupted file then someone please tell me how I should figure that out. I watched the film without any issue whatsoever (wrote an email to the uploader group earlier) but that is no guarantee.

Airwave said:

Olev said:

Harmy can you give us official MD5 of your release? TPB and MySpleen torrents DON'T MATCH! The one downloaded from TPB only matches 24.4% of MySpleen torrents main movie mkv!

I noticed that as well. The one from MySpleen also seems to have some extraneous files in the Project Threepio folder.

So I didn't touch the Threepio folders in anyway. Which extraneous files are you referring to?

I'm not quite sure how to check with multipar outside the context of using a newsgroup program that does it for me; some guide would be nice - please pm. It would not be fun to have to nuke this release and start over but it is what it is.

Cobra Kai said:

bilditup1 said:

UP AND RUNNING ON MYSPLEEN! COME ONE, COME ALL!

Awesome! Thanks!!!!!!!

LOL, don't thank me; I'm just the messenger :)

Note that I set free leech until 1st snatch only. Be kind, rewind!

(OK, not the same situation but the ethos behind is the same)

UP AND RUNNING ON MYSPLEEN! COME ONE, COME ALL!

delusions_of_grandeur said:

Inksplat said:

This is such a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I am super excited for this release. On the other hand..ohmygodhowlonguntilEmpireandJedi!?!?! :P

My (admittedly awful) attempt at mind-reading indicates that Harmy has plenty of changes planned for ESB and ROTJ, but not nearly so many as he had for Star Wars.  Compared to the Special Edition of Star Wars, the Special Editions of ESB and ROTJ reflected a remarkable amount of restraint by Lucas.

 

 

Yeah, those two aren't in nearly as bad shape, from what I can tell. Harmy himself said that while he has changes in store for them, the original DE has already done much. I dunno how much more he could do color-wise, since there is no dye-print of those films, to my knowledge (we only have it for SW according to zombie because dye prints were still struck in Great Britain in the late 1970s and managed to survive being dumped out of storage at Technicolor or Elstree or somewhere). But correct me if I'm wrong