darthrush

yoda-sama said:

darthrush said:

USB 2.0 or 3.0?: My computers ports are 2.0 and the drive came with both 3.0 and 2.0 cords but only the 3.0 connection actually had the computer register a new BD drive. the 2.0 did not work.

I’ve looked up the manual for your model–just to make absolutely sure–and there’s not supposed to be two USB cords included, are you talking about one cord with two USB connectors on the end? Assuming that probability, when you’re running a drive like this over just USB 2.0, the second connector is for additional power (not a choice between USB versions), which a USB3.0 port would otherwise be able to supply through a single connector. With your setup, you should be plugging in both USB connectors so you have enough power. Try it again this way.

Also, Nero hasn’t been good in a long time, I’d advise against bothering with that at this point.

Yah, sorry it’s one cord with two USB connectors on the end. I’ll try another burn at 2x with both plugged in and tell u how it goes. With the cheap discs still.

Blu ray Burner Model (Pioneer Slim) : BDR-XD05S
Operating System: Windows 10, 64 bit
Burning Program: ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 ( I also have Nero Burning ROM but have not tried it yet)
Source of ISO Files: I downloaded them directly from myspleen, the latest versions of each disc uploaded by njvc himself. Verified hash check, all downloaded successfully.
USB 2.0 or 3.0?: My computers ports are 2.0 and the drive came with both 3.0 and 2.0 cords but only the 3.0 connection actually had the computer register a new BD drive. the 2.0 did not work.
Other Info: Computer RAM is 6 gb, intel 5 processor

Im at school so I cannot recall my current firmware but I did buy the burner brand new from best buy a couple days ago.

Hope this info helps. thinking I maybe I should try burning with nero.

Iv got some homework and have to shower but afterwards I will try to give ALL the specs you requested yodasama. I’d like to really confirm it’s the discs before buying some verbatim off Amazon. Hopefully once I reveal the rest of the info about how I’m burning it can be resolved 😃. Thanks again for everyone’s help.

Sad news warb. Hang in there. You’ll be in my thoughts

LuckyGungan2001 said:

I watched Civil War again because my brother got it on DVD, and I must say, everytime I watch the film ilike it a bit more than the time before. I can safely call Zemo my favourite MCU villain after Loki.

Same feelings. Though Zemos plan is quite far fetched and makes not a lot of sense, his main goal, outcome, motivations, history etc. make him a wonderful, unique villain in the marvel universe. I also consider (lower down the list though) Alexander Pierce to be a underrated villain.

Sorry about that mistake I made.

I grew up with 97 SE VHS’s which were normal, then we bought the 2004 DVD’s which soon confused the hell out of me with the pink lightsaber and the green lightsaber on the falcon. I chose to stick with the VHS’s. My poor mom realized how short-lived her investment in the 2004 masters was.

Thanks for your help dogdoctor! 😃

So I tried one last time at 2x speed with another one of my cheap ridata discs annnndddd… Same issue. But Iv noticed a pattern, which is that the freezing always happens (with every one of these cheap discs) at the halfway point in the movie for 2 or 3 chapters.

Now that I have done this and have this info, should I go through with purchasing the Amazon trusted (and slightly pricey) verbatim discs or is this another issue.

It’s a brand new burner (a couple days old, latest slim pioneer model, Best Buy) that seems to work fine. Iv tried the discs in a Samsung player, a Sony player and with my burner (software is PowerDVd 16) and the issue happens across the board. I really hope it’s the discs and hope to buy verbatim but the fact that it freezes at the middle of the film makes me worry about layer break issues?

Iv heard only a little bit of the term (layer break) thrown around so I don’t know what layer breaking is, how it’s an issue, if it originates in the Media, the burner or the player?

All in all, should I invest more dollars in verbatim discs, keeping all the info Iv given you in mind.

MalàStrana said:

The only PT fan edit I’ve seen so far with a dub track is Q2’s Episode I (french dub). But Hal’s versions come with subtitles; if you speak german it would be quite easy (and not that time-consuming) to produce german subs out of them (the time-pattern being already done, you would only have to translate around 900 lines per film). If you want to do so let me now I can send you the french and english srt files. My german is not good enough to do them (and I’m currently working on TESB new french subtitles) but it would be very cool if you could contribute !

(by the way DominicCobb, if you keep a strict log of your changes - in number of frames - it would be very easy to readapt TAS subtitles to your cut; only the extra dialogues would require some work. I would be interested in having a slighty alternate cut of Hal’s version with the droid factory sequence in my archives 😃)

About the bluray picture quality: has anyone watched kk650 regraded version ? I’m usually not a fan of his regraded versions which are too yellow to my taste, but he seems to have nailed AOTC.
Bluray

kk650

I agree with your distaste of his colors for the most part but Iv gotta say…his AOTC regrade looks amazing.

Fucking hate high school when your schedule is full with AP’s. So much useless shit being shoved into your brain costing you useful time.

yoda-sama said:

While waiting on those other discs, might as well try another of your cheap discs at the lowest speed and see if you get a different result.

(Also, what speed are the discs themselves rated for?)

6x. I will try it at 2x (slowest correct?) in the meantime

Tobar said:

Looks fucking awful

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

It irks me that this song never got an official music video.

I think music videos are worthless and degrade the experience of music. Music should be listened with ones own imagination (unless it is a film music that composer specifically link to the film scenes). Even when I watch the music video of some song that I have already listened on its own, the video is always completely off because it simply doesn’t fit to what was created by the imagination while experiencing that music.

Another rare and interesting experience where I completely agree with Impscum despite his obnoxious behavior.

yoda-sama said:

darthrush said:

Discs were clean and if there was any error it was during the verification process (for both discs) which said “Check Condintion” and “Un Correctable Error”. But it burned and the everything seems to be on there. All special features and menus work wonderfully and most of each film plays fine until a certain section that literally won’t do anything but freeze every 2 seconds.

That’s the point of verification, to verify if the burn was good… meaning that even if the disc finished burning, if it doesn’t verify then something went wrong in the burning process (not that the verification process is bad at comparing burned data to source data)… Sure, perhaps not everything on the disc is fully corrupt and unreadable, but at no point should you have been surprised to find issues on a disc that failed verification.

What you should do at this point (in addition to buying better media), is to take a harder look at what you’re dealing with and what steps you took. What model Pioneer burner are you using, is there a firmware update for that model (a lot of media compatibility is added over time this way)? What speed did you burn at? Was it the maximum speed? If so, try it again on the slowest option available (this helps more than you’d think) (look at the dye of a fast and slow burned disc sometime, you’ll see a lot of inconsistent colors on the fast disc that you don’t see on the slow burned disc) (yes it’ll take a while, but you’re archiving here…).

Also, I’m not sure if this applies to double layer Blu-ray discs, but be aware that there’s more than one standard out there, with LTH (low to high reflectivity, which is the opposite of normal BD-R) discs being cheaper to produce but less compatible with older players and burners. In short, find out what your specific burner is known to work well with, not just what brands have worked for others here with different burners.

Thanks for all your advice. Here’s my info:

I have bought the latest Pioneer Slim BDXL burner (2 days ago, most recent). I burn at 4x, max is 6x. And hopefully the verification process will work when I try different discs.

Here’s my plan of action:

-Buy new verbatim discs from Amazon. Highly reviewed and trusted.
-Burn at 2x for maximum chance of success.
-hopefully verification works

Thanks for your help again, and do you think this plan of action sounds good? I think it should solve my problem.

Ok, it seems my discs might just be bad. I have not tried playing them on my Samsung player (issues was with sony player) but if they still freeze constantly for those certain sections of each film then I think I will go with Verbatim discs off amazon. They seem to have great reviews there and you all have testified to their success so that will probably be the route I take it. Its a shame I wasted money on those ridata discs and it hopefully wont happen again with verbatim 😉

towne32 said:

I’ve only used Verbatim and had no issues. Have you tried the discs in more than one player? Could be a combination of bad discs and less than ideal player.

Hopefully it’s the player. I’ll try my downstairs player instead.

one69chev said:

darthrush said:

Shit.

So I just popped in ESB excited to check out my newly burned custom blu Ray thanks to njvc. It starts out wonderful with stunning quality until the disc goes into freeze (every 3 seconds mode) for the next 20 minutes.

I checked my Star Wars disc and it had the same issue during the Death Star final escape.

I bought very cheap (20 bucks for 10 DL) ridata third party sold blank discs on eBay. Hopefully it’s the discs. If anyone has any thoughts on what might be the problem then that would mean so much to me. If it is the discs, I’m curious what discs are top notch quality.

Thanks again for everyone’s support in this community between all the members.

That’s both weird and disturbingly frustrating I’m sure…I have not had any similar issues and although I don’t know about ‘top-notch’ exactly, I have used Sony, Verbatim, and Plex-disc printables. I have not specific problems with one brand, but when I have had a failure of any kind, Imgburn kindly let’s me know and those discs prove to be un-playable from the start. Any chance the discs are dirty?

Discs were clean and if there was any error it was during the verification process (for both discs) which said “Check Condintion” and “Un Correctable Error”. But it burned and the everything seems to be on there. All special features and menus work wonderfully and most of each film plays fine until a certain section that literally won’t do anything but freeze every 2 seconds.

Shit.

So I just popped in ESB excited to check out my newly burned custom blu Ray thanks to njvc. It starts out wonderful with stunning quality until the disc goes into freeze (every 3 seconds mode) for the next 20 minutes.

I checked my Star Wars disc and it had the same issue during the Death Star final escape.

I bought very cheap (20 bucks for 10 DL) ridata third party sold blank discs on eBay. Hopefully it’s the discs. If anyone has any thoughts on what might be the problem then that would mean so much to me. If it is the discs, I’m curious what discs are top notch quality.

Thanks again for everyone’s support in this community between all the members.

MalàStrana said:

Hopefully not. The removal of the eyebrows corrects an error during shooting of ROTJ. There are the bad changes and there are the good changes, the “eyebrows correction” belongs to the latter [edit: not “later”, otherwise you miss the incredibly funny joke below]. I don’t mind them in Rebels because they “better read in animation”.

Gotta agree with you here. it was a nice continuity change that was subtle unlike changing the emperor in episode 5, making him look awful, and fucking up his dialogue all for continuity.

TV’s Frink said:

I just meant you can shoot someone in the head and it’s PG-13, but show a penis for one second and it’s NC-17.

This^^^

Hal 9000 said:

For TAS, the only differences are the fixed audio and inclusion of subtitles.
Every prior release had a weird audio problem where the left and right channels were identical. Since I didn’t want the final product presented to end users to be “here’s instructions on how to mux things,” I had to do a V4.1.

Sounds good! Thanks for the update 😃

Just finished trying my first ever burn for SW 2.7 BD50 disc. Used Pioneer burner. And it worked! It had an error during verification in ImgBurn that said “recondition disc, un correctable error etc.” but it turns out the burn was successful 😃 thanks again njvc

Just to be clear what was done for 4.1? Iv tried to find your comments concerning some audio issue Hal but can’t seem to trace them down. Thanks again! Iv already updated to 4.1 😃

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MathUser said:

I just about watched all that was on the bonus disc. Funny they didn’t call it OT Bonus disc cause most of the stuff was about the OT. I already saw Star Wars Tech when it was on tv, I just didn’t watch the last one. It’s cool that they included some youtube videos on the fan spoofs. My favorite didn’t make it tho, Star Wars Gangsta Rap 2. I know why tho. As it is it’s pretty vulgar and I imagine if they included the whole song it would be even worst. Gangsta Rap 1 wasn’t worth including IMO. I don’t like that one or 3. Now to take a break before I watch the rest of the extras, sometime after that ep 1-3 and 5 with commentary. Gonna take a while. You really get alot for your money with this set.

I’m curious how the bonus features of njvc’s set compare up to the Offical release in your mind?

Physical media (specifically Blu-Ray) because…

-you can actually physically have a collection with nice shiny discs in nice shiny cases with nice shiny cover art.
-it is permanently yours.
-it’s bonus features/audio commentaries are assembled on beautiful menus
-Full HD quality with amazing surround sound tracks

But I do always make sure I have a digital file version for VLC IOS playback on my phone and IPad (Torrent HD compressed 4ish GB movies AFTER I have purchased the blu Ray.