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joefavs said:

ilovejarjar said:

joefavs said:

Harmy said:

Can’t your BD player play back stuff from USB?

Nothing bigger than 4 GB.

That’s probably a fat32 issue. Fat32 can only handle file sizes up to 4GB. If your BD player supports any other filesystems for example ntfs, ext3/4 or hfs+ try formatting your devices with one of them.

Bingo. It only accepts fat32, I’ve researched it thoroughly. It’s like a five year old player.

Even a five year old player should support something other than fat32. Perhaps you could try hfs+ as device makers have been keener on Apple support these past few years? You could also try ext3/4 as a lot of players’ firmware is Linux based. If you’re not cash strapped you could get one of those Raspberry Pis.

joefavs said:

Harmy said:

Can’t your BD player play back stuff from USB?

Nothing bigger than 4 GB.

That’s probably a fat32 issue. Fat32 can only handle file sizes up to 4GB. If your BD player supports any other filesystems for example ntfs, ext3/4 or hfs+ try formatting your devices with one of them.

towne32 said:

ilovejarjar said:

Are we seeing the first Despecialized version not to be released by Harmy?

Nope! Marvins and Laserschwert have also done localizations using Harmy’s lossless encodes. And >Laserschwert’s ESB had some 35mm upgrades, so he was allowed to call it ESB 2.1 I believe. 😃

Thanks for clearing that up. I’m looking forward to your colour-corrected version from Harmy’s lossless master.

This is great. Are we seeing the first Despecialized version not to be released by Harmy? This colour-correction is a result of the spirit of collaboration within the preservation community. Thanks to Harmy and towne32 for this upcoming release.

Sartre said:

No it isn’t. The divx reference is a quirk with avinaptic. I’ve tried internal and external avc filters in > MPC as well as VLC and every other player but no go. VLC doesn’t show a picture at all.

You’ve probably got a corrupt download then. If you’re looking for an mkv why not just bite the bullet and get the larger version?

CatBus said:

jzilli said:

First of all, Harmy, v2.5 looks spectacular. Well done! Thank you so much

Is it just me, or is the audio out of sync? I think the audio is behind the video a bit. I notice this whenever a human is talking, but also at the beginning of the opening crawl (“STAR WARS” is noticeably displayed before the audio comes in). I’ve only tested the MKV with the 5.1 audio - I can test the other audio tracks and the AVCHD when I get home tonight. I’ve tested on two different PC’s, using Plex and Kodi.

Some software players have trouble decoding DTS-HD fast enough, and it ends up lagging behind the video. >I haven’t noticed anything. Try an AC3 track, which is less decoder-intensive.

Playback on a Raspberry Pi2 using Kodi works for me with the DTS-HD 5.1 track so I don’t know if this is the issue and jzilli said he/she tried Kodi.

Sartre said:

Harmy said:

Did you try demuxing first?

Yes. When I demux the h264 stream before remuxing, the movie does start when it’s double-clicked but it still takes a while to catch up when you click in the seek bar. I notice when muxing im mkvmergeGUI that it takes a long time for the progress bar to show anything, like it’s reading through the entire file, then it shoots up to a hundred percent and takes another minute as it seems to write the file. I do lots of video converting/muxing and this is definitely unusual behaviour. I analyzed it in avinaptic and it showed a lot of buffer overflows:

Selected profile DivX 720HD
Resolution Ok
Framerate 23.976024 <> 30
Buffer underflow 00:12:38 (frame 18173)
Buffer underflow 00:12:39 (frame 18204)
Buffer underflow 00:12:41 (frame 18234)
Buffer underflow 00:12:49 (frame 18449)
Buffer underflow 00:13:02 (frame 18759)
Buffer underflow 00:13:04 (frame 18808)
Buffer underflow 00:13:06 (frame 18843)
Buffer underflow 00:13:45 (frame 19769)
Buffer underflow 00:29:09 (frame 41925)
Buffer underflow 00:29:11 (frame 41973)
Buffer underflow 00:29:12 (frame 42014)
Buffer underflow 00:29:28 (frame 42390)
Buffer underflow 00:31:14 (frame 44930)
Buffer underflow 00:32:03 (frame 46097)
Buffer underflow 00:32:07 (frame 46198)
Buffer underflow 00:32:09 (frame 46259)
Buffer underflow 00:32:11 (frame 46287)
Buffer underflow 00:32:28 (frame 46709)
Buffer underflow 00:32:39 (frame 46970)
Buffer underflow 00:32:42 (frame 47048)
Error Too many violations

It’s trying to play it with the DivX (MPEG4-ASP) directshow codec and not H.264 (MPEG4-AVC). MPC-HC has its own codecs. You don’t need CCCP, ffdshow or anything like that to play it back, use the internal codecs:

http://www.ezoden.com/htpc/11/mpc-hc-internal-filters

If that doesn’t work try VLC which only uses its own codecs.

I have no more invites.

SnooPac said:

Thanks a lot. I think now I also have to love jar jar.

It’s obviously a sarcastic username. Who on here in their right mind would love Binks?

SnooPac said:

Thanks again Harmy.

I also hope someone will be able to upload this to any mirror (such as mega, they’re usually really good).
Unfortunately, when I go to uloz, I get the following:
Nemáte oprávnění k přístupu na tuto stránku. Obraťte se prosím na Vašeho poskytovatele internetového připojení, nechť nás kontaktuje na emailu technické podpory, situaci se budeme snažit řešit přímo s ním.
Which, paraphrasing google, says “go away, your ISP is banned” or so 😃, and I currently don’t have a spleen.

Or if anyone can donate a spleen, on another private tracker my ratio is listed as ~8.5 so I should be able to do a good job seeding.

PM sent.

digitalfreaknyc said:

stretch009 said:

dogdoctor said:

Wazzles said:

When someone downloads it from wherever Harmy uploads it to then uploads it themselves. So it just depends on how long it takes them to download it, really.

Ah. I thought Harmy just did a direct drop to the main sites. But that explains why the various versions there are not all uploaded by the same user. Makes sense now. Thanks for the clarification. Back to patiently waiting…

No need to wait, it’s at Tehparadox right now.

No it’s not. I checked.

Yes it is. I got it from there and am seeding on Myspleen.

I’ll be helping out the Myspleen fellows in the next 30-45 minutes once I have it. Sit tight!

Myspleen server load is very high. I wonder why.

Thanks a lot for this!

stupid editor.

trikztar said:

“This is a fan preservation made […]”

Shouldn’t it be “This is a fan made preservation […]”

I’m not too sure about it though and English isn’t my native language, so I could be wrong.

Awesome project you’re working on btw. Respect!

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Either will do, it’s more about the style and how it reads.

You can find some corrections I made to your NFO below Harmy (two humanities degrees, it’s almost second nature to me now!), it’s up to you whether or not you use them:

                HARMY PROUDLY PRESENTS                                                                                
                                                                                           
                                                                                            
       RETURN OF THE JEDI - DESPECIALIZED EDITION REMASTERED (v2.5)

|This is a fan-made preservation for cultural, historical, and educational purposes. |
|Fanedits and preservations must not be bought or sold. |
|Please report every fanedit or preservation you find for sale to the webmasters of originaltrilogy.com. |
|Fanedits and preservations are an artform and to be shared among legal owners of the officially available releases only. |
|Do not support piracy. |
|_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________|

This is a reconstruction of the 1983 theatrical version of ‘Return of the Jedi’. The original shots were painstakingly restored using the sources listed below and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction based on a fade free 1983 LPP Print. ROTJ v2.5 is almost completely despecialized, except for a couple of wipes; for all intents and purposes it is the original version.

The remastered version (v2.5) represents a significant improvement in picture quality over the earlier 1.0 version due to the use of better encoding settings and higher quality sources. Many of the despecialized shots from v1.0 were replaced in v2.5 with shots from these superior sources.

Version v2.0 only came out as a limited release workprint.

A gallery showing all the changes can be found here:
https://photos.google.com/u/1/album/AF1QipOUewV3aQ2QnhCC2WsLwE6sihIE9zvVIkiF8GB6

The MKV version contains a large number of audio tracks, including the latest versions of the preservations
of the original audio mixes in DTS-HD MA, three different commentary tracks, an isolated score and dubbing
tracks in 13 different languages.

More information can be found here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harmys-RETURN-OF-THE-JEDI-Despecialized-Edition-HD-AVCHD-DVD9-and-NTSC-DVD5-available-SEE-FIRST-POST/id/12905

VIDEO SOURCES:

Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi Official Blu-Ray (2011)

LPP 35mm print scans (Team Negative 1 and Poita)

Schorman’s HDTV Preservation - Return of the Jedi (2004 DVD version)

RETURN OF THE JEDI 2006 Bonus DVD (sourced from the 1993 Definitive Edition Laser Disc Master - upscaled by Dark Jedi)

RETURN OF THE PUG (1983 16mm print transfer)

Custom mattes

Too many invite requests from people who’ve just signed up. I won’t give any more out to such users.

Delicieuxz said:

If people need a myspleen invite, PM me. I have some to give away.

As have I.

The suspense is killing me too! Am I still there at the end shouting “Wesa free”?

Just wanted to say thanks to you Harmy for all your efforts and to your collaborators. I can’t imagine watching the Special Editions now. I’m really looking forward to ROTJ 2.0.