michaelkirschner

Harmy what special features will be on disc two other than those docs you mentioned earlier? Any special features on disc 1?

You can find a ton of stuff here as well http://archive.4plebs.org/hr/thread/1722514/#1738113

I was wondering what special features you were going to include on the extra disc other than your making of videos

DragoonClawNZ said:

I've decided to go with the route of using DVD Architect and inserting everything via BDFix.

I'm still building the menus which are basic but are straight to the point.

For the main menu, it'll play the animation that Harmy did a while ago, then to a still frame at the end with the options added on.

Here's what I've done so far:

I mentioned before that I intended to add in the bonus features from the earlier releases also.

I really like this menu design :)

Hopefully Harmy can figure out his Blu-ray software issues pretty soon or someone with good Blu-ray software can help him out. But this menu looks really good as a way to give the viewer the feel of the original Star Wars

dblake83 said:

analog said: I was going to try this for kicks, just to see if it'd work, but get a "matroska parse error: invalid h264 NAL unit size. NAL unit truncated" error :(

Will wait for the "real deal" in any case... Just wanted to see if there was a quick way to burn for playback on a standalone player. Ah well.

 

The NAL error is due to header compression that newer versions of MKVtool kit thus mkvmerge now uses by default.

You simply need to remove it.

Here is how:  In mkvmerge, under options [file->options] on the mmg tab look for "Disable header removal compression for audio and video tracks by default" and check the box. Then in main window add your .mkv and "start muxing" it will be somewhat fast as in this case it will just be changing the header not really doing a demux

Here is the commandline method:

mkvmerge --compression 0:none --compression 1:none -o "path and file name of new .mkv aka output file" "path and file name of the mkv file to be processed aka imput file"

BTW: I use mkvmerge 4.70 besides it being rock solid stable, mkv's made from later versions will not fast forward >> or reverse properly << on my Blu-Ray player.

 

P.S. It's worth spending 1-2 hours to figure out how to use MultiAVCHD for the do-it-yourself menu. You'll be able to use the knowledge for future endevours. Of course, I had to limit the audio choices down to 6 due as that's all that will display, but it's great solution until an "official" one is available from Harmy and his helpers. 

 

If I were to use multiAVCHD to create a Blu-ray that contains multiple movies like say SW DEED 2.5, SW ANH Revisited SD, and Star Wars Begins would the 6 audio track limit be per title or is the 6 track limit across the entire disc?

Yes interviews toy ads rare photage hig res set photos! I have enjoyed this project so much that I feel like I should give something back. I would love to currate that rare content if it can be added onto the special features disc

I'm not sure if I should burn 2.5 to disc or wait until the BD comes out. I already have 2.0 and 2.1 on Blu-ray I waited a while after 2.1 came out but eventually I broke my will power and burned 2.1 to disc so now I have 2 versions of Star Wars on disc. I am wondering if I should burn 2.5 to disc now or if I should wait for the BD whenever it comes out.

Another more important question that I have is that it seems like some members of this forum Chyron included are brainstorming their idea to take Harmy's files and make it there own, so should I wait for the Chyron/whatever edition to come out to compare it to Harmy's before making my decision?

I will download whatever Harmy puts out my Hard Drives have more than enough room and my bandwidth is always up to the challenge but Blu-ray discs even 25GB discs can be expensive so I want to make a smart decision 

Harmy said:

Well, he wouldn't have to re-encode but he would have to do some voodoo, to get it all working properly.

By voodoo are you referring to doing that layer timing thing? He would also have to change menus aroound a little adding in more buttons and stuff like that. By the way how are the menus going? I know you showed the video that would play in the background but how does it look with all the buttons like play movie scene selections setup

I think I'm going to play it safe and take a break from the forums for a couple of months to let the bugs get fixed out. I'll return around Christmas time as that is also when Empire Revisited is coming out hopefully both Star Wars and Empire Despecialized will be fixed by then one can only hope so I will see you guys soon.

I hope that this pops up on myspleen within a few hours jdownloader keeps failing on me

Zer0Squared said:

I'm sure he will once he's finished uploading it.

I'm just wondering where the link will be since they are not allowed here if he will post it in tehparadox entry

Harmy said:

All that multiupload offers. And the upload is going pretty fast.

Will you post that multiupload link somewhere?

It's been a while since I used that software do I really have to enter codes over 100 times in a row?

How to I get Jdownloader to stop asking me to fill in that damn capcha code?

Zer0Squared said:

Wow, that all sounds really nice, Harmy!  Congrats everyone on hitting the 10,000th post and here's to hitting another 10,000...where we should be on SW:DE v3.0 by then. :P

At this point is 3.0 neccessary? What will be on 3.0 that will be left out of 2.5?

chyron8472 said:

I volunteer to put it on Myspleen. I did so for v2.1.

If you all recall, I was able to download 2.1 from uloz and put it up on Myspleen in very little time. The reason being because I'm using the internet at my office, which is really fricken fast. 

Plus, I'm really nitpicky about wanting torrents for the same set to have identical formatting/layouts in their Myspleen descriptions. So if I do it myself, I can ensure that it looks right.

That would be greatly appreciated

Harmy said:

@hairy_hen: I'm really sorry to hear about your troubles - if you can get the audio to me during next week, it would be great but if not, don't worry about it, I'll just release the mkv with the lossy versions and then people can mux the lossless tracks in later - for the BD, I'll wait as long as it takes for you to finish them :-)

@DVD-BOY: It seems like I will be pretty lucky if I'm even able to do a basic menu, so I don't think I'll be using any advanced features like that.

@analog: I'm definitelly not using any method that would require re-compression - if I couldn't find a way, there simply would be no BD.

Adywan made some excellent menus on his Star Wars revisited project I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you copied his menu design exactly

I say set a firm deadline say 2 weeks from now you release the mkv with whatever is available to you and then 2 weeks after that (4 weeks from today) you release the BD

And 19TB=168.352KY if you use United States customary units

AntcuFaalb said:

michaelkirschner said:

Bingowings said:

This project has taken longer than anticipated but I don't think Ady is delayed by changes he doesn't make.

People posting thoughts, ideas, commentaries, criticism etc only delay the project if they make sense to Ady and he has to redo his work to match the ideas he is convinced by.

I can't imagine that happening too often as he started this project with many ideas of his own which he has probably stuck to.

For someone who does not follow this thread as religiously as you guys do what date are we expecting for the release of Empire?

Tomorrow!

No really when is it expected? Around this christmas, maybe later, maybe before (hopefully)?

Bingowings said:

This project has taken longer than anticipated but I don't think Ady is delayed by changes he doesn't make.

People posting thoughts, ideas, commentaries, criticism etc only delay the project if they make sense to Ady and he has to redo his work to match the ideas he is convinced by.

I can't imagine that happening too often as he started this project with many ideas of his own which he has probably stuck to.

For someone who does not follow this thread as religiously as you guys do what date are we expecting for the release of Empire?

cain spaans said:

I have a question will there be any Japanese overdubs in this 

Probably not at least not in Harmy's package it seems as if Harmy is going to use almost every last Gigabyte of space that a 25GB Blu-ray will give him so if you want any non-English you will probably have to do it yourself