digitalfreaknyc

Have you captured the Vudu encode?

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=249015

jadepraerie said:

Nice writeup this week by Rose Eveleth in The Atlantic regarding your good deeds: 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-want-you-to-see/379184/

"The Star Wars George Lucas Doesn't Want You To See"

SKot said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

I just got a copy of the SWHS from a broadcast master in france. However, it is cut. It's not the full show. Is it worth sharing?

Absolutely and 100%!  The French cut may be shorter, but it's unique and may be the most "tolerable" cut of the HS there is.

<img src="http://www.fulori.com/~skot/torrent_zomg.jpg" alt="ZOMG" width="356" height="237" />

When you say it's cut, you mean it's edited down, right?

--SKot

Flexicon9 said:

<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-150000465.html</a>" title="finance.yahoo.com/news/star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-150000465.html">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-150000465.html</a>" target="_blank">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-150000465.html">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-150000465.html</a>

Harmy, you're getting good press today!

I just got a copy of the SWHS from a broadcast master in france. However, it is cut. It's not the full show. Is it worth sharing?

AntcuFaalb said:

Warning: Don't read the comments.

Btw....another story just went up with Harmy's interview!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-150000465.html

MTV now posted about it!

http://www.mtv.com/news/1906468/star-wars-fans-have-despecialized-and-remastered-a-new-hope/

With all due respect, after having watched the original youtube documentary documentary several times and now watching this, it just seems like major overkill. You were much more succinct in the youtube video and this just seems to go on and on. The ending "interview" seems more like you set up the camera yourself and recorded yourself responding to an invisible interviewers questions. I would leave it at the original documentary, IMHO.
Just my 2 cents...

skyjedi2005 said:

Robin "Holy Smokes Batman! the Penguin Must be behind the price of this blu ray set."

 Batman "At 200 dollars, no this is not a trick Robin or I'd wager the Joker was behind it."

Wow. Front page of Yahoo.

http://s24.postimg.org/wt757hjf9/Harmy.png

gizzy2000 said:

it's hard not to be excited about even the slightest rumor but I wish they would've at least gone into a bit more detail about their sources. Maybe the sources wanted to remain anonymous which is also understandable.

FWIW:

http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/08/16/exclusive-original-unaltered-cut-of-star-wars-trilogy-to-be-rele/

OK so I was just able to reproduce the error. It *IS* definitely a problem in videoredo. It's not a problem with the master file.

I've uploaded both the original recording and the edit and the errors are introduced AFTER videoredo.

ORIGINAL: https://mega.co.nz/#!xRFXmLRD!4-wdDzBxGgOZB3zIJz4qjO22tmTgNL5D95M82CiSbs8
AFTER:https://mega.co.nz/#!kRVX3YhK!3eqneHgtAjFA7v0lkJKLkptgeoqiylo4T0oDfnmtq7A
And to see the (slight) jerkiness that I'm talking about, here's a smaller clip: https://mega.co.nz/#!xd9XhZqI!i7Jla3gWY83qmxnISZTg1z9Ucn9kHAAvOgyXYguq8Uw

And, to be clear, this has happened with various versions of VRD. It's not just one. The files that I initially noticed this on were recorded several years ago. The files I uploaded were recorded today.

I'm desperate for some help on this. I have about 60 files that are just sitting on my PC that I can't burn because of this error.

I'm having a ton of problems with some files that I have. They were originally captured with my Hauppauge HD PVR and then edited with VRD. Once I author my Blu-ray with MultiAVCHD, I get a files that "jump" (for lack of a better word) a second or two after they start. It's not huge but it's about 2-3 frames, I would say.
When I ran them through tsmuxer, I got an error that said "Bad SEI detected. SEI too short." If I select "Do Not Change SEI," it processes fine but the jump is still there.
Is there any way to fix this? Is re-encoding the only option? Since MultiAVChd uses tsmuxer to create the discs, this anomaly is there on all of them.
The odd thing is that I've done nothing different with these files than I normally do when recording. Is this something that VRD entered into the equation? Or is there any chance of it fixing it?

Here's an example of one of the files:

General
ID : 1 (0x1)
Complete name : J:\Test
Format : MPEG-TS
File size : 442 MiB
Duration : 4mn 26s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 13.9 Mbps

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=24
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 4mn 26s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 13.0 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 20.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.210
Stream size : 414 MiB (94%)
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 4mn 26s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 6.10 MiB (1%)
Language : English

Harmy said:

Maybe - I'd need someone to sync the DTS discs to the BD before I could make that version though.

Harmy....you're a ROCK STAR!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Are there plans for a re-specialized version of Empire as well? Are the DTS discs available for it?

AntcuFaalb said:

Croweyes1121 said:

The AMC version was broadcast in 5.1, so I DO have a 5.1 track for all the extra scenes.

Was this 5.1 mix created from separate elements or is it just an up-mix from the 1.0?

By Jedi, the NFO is just going to be "you know what dis is. It's da shyt. Download it, mofos." ;)

Anyone else feel like this is waiting for Santa Claus? :)

Croweyes1121 said:

The AMC version was broadcast in 5.1, so I DO have a 5.1 track for all the extra scenes.  Unfortunately, the only 1080p rip I know of is also in stereo, hence my doing the entire thing in 720p and 5.1 for consistency.  I can make another thread if you think that'd be better, but there is a difference in my version and a preservation.  This version will not be exactly like the Saga or Trilogy edits.  It will place the Don Ciccio assassination where it belongs chronologically like in the Saga, and incorporate a few scenes exclusive to that version, but it will not contain the TV-style openings and closings of the parts of the Saga, and it will contain all the things edited out of the Saga that were in the theatrical versions.  I'm not doing this to "interest" people.  I'm doing it because I'd like it done.

Harmy said:

I don't want the lossless version, I just want to have an AC3 there for completeness and I've already got it, thanks to someone on the forum :-)

I also realized, that in v2.5 of SW, I had the '85 LD mix as well - was the '85 mix of ESB different in any way? Or in other words, is it worth searching for and including?

Croweyes1121 said:

My edit won't be a proper preservation.  The films already exist in their theatrical versions, and the Saga as aired exists, too.  This is a cutting together of as much theatrical footage from the blu-ray as possible with the added scenes from the recent HD broadcast.  The whole point is to bring 1901-1980 up to 720p / 5.1 standards.  If I were trying to stick to original elements on everything, I'd just watch the laserdisc.

Harmy said:

I just found out that I only have the '93 mix for ESB from the PAL GOUT - could someone please upload a better AC3 of it for me?