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#212400
Topic
Info & Offer: I have Star Wars SEs on Digi Betacam tape, you want my dvd tranfers?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212400/action/topic#212400
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The classic "rename a rar file as a vob file and it plays in PowerDVD" trick works on these files.

I have played quite a few and the quality is fabulous.

How it compares to the GKar, TB and Reivax releases I cannot say until I get the finished DVD into my DVD player and do some side by side comparisons.

It is such a shame that there are only the first two films in the trilogy in this set.
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#212359
Topic
Info: the Galactic Trade Federation website
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212359/action/topic#212359
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Originally posted by: SKot
Originally posted by: joebshmoe
that website, while having a bunch of great information, is soooo painful to look at.

pleaaaase change it away from frames and poor quality images...


Did I just hear you say you are offering to do all the new coding work for Russ yourself?

Good man!

--SKot


I was kind of hoping he was too..........

Meanwhile, I will stick to my begged, borrowed and stolen code, crappy frames and crappy images!!

Joking aside, any (constructive) comments or feedback and any help is always appreciated.

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#212135
Topic
Info: the Galactic Trade Federation website
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212135/action/topic#212135
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I have just done a few minor updates to the Galactic Trade Federation site.

I am also after feedback and comments on extra content and different navigation. The link to a test page is on todays update on the homepage.

Once I know it all works OK and I have enough content, I will go live with the new content at the current site homepage, incorporating any feedback I get here.

Thanks in advance.

PS I am also looking for any good links to articles about the the official releases, particularly where changes or differences between releases or wide to fullscreen differences are discussed.
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#208969
Topic
What to do with the SE discs from the OT DVD sets...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208969/action/topic#208969
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Originally posted by: Mentasm
Originally posted by: THX
I hear the TB and GKar versions are good - check out galactictradefederation.com for more info.

Cheers. Just had a look at the site; it's a pity there are no screen caps and that the German set has the opening crawl in, well, german. Might see if I can get hold of the Dolby Surround English versions somewhere so I can redo the caps.

Try these links........

Originally posted by: eDroj

Here is a site that has some information about the german 1997 SE DTV version.
The page is in german, but you can use babelfish to translate it.

http://www.thx-trailer.com/2/Star-Wars/episode4.htm
http://www.thx-trailer.com/2/Star-Wars/episode5.htm
http://www.thx-trailer.com/2/Star-Wars/episode6.htm

Greetings
Grisan


Very nice info Grisan, do you know where I could get a hold of that german DTV SE set?


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#206436
Topic
Idea: A New Direction - Special Edition Preservation?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206436/action/topic#206436
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The 5 Star collection is nothing more than average.

The best SE Trilogy set is the GKar version which is a German DVB recording and has a German crawl and subtitles.

Following that in an all English format is the TB Release which is a Scandanavian DVB recording. This set has an on-screen graphic in the top right corner.

Both are PAL.

I am sure that the talented ones out there could take these two sets to make one perfect version, preferably in NTSC so that the films run at the correct speed and are the correct length.

I had never noticed the PAL 4% speed-up before until it was mentioned here but now I am buying all my fave films again in R1 NTSC so that they run correctly.
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#204740
Topic
'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204740/action/topic#204740
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Originally posted by: russs15
Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
The fullscreen thing probably isn't working because the IFO that marioxb wrote specifies for the video to be stretched out to the 16x9 ratio.


Success.

I downloaded Ifo Edit and compared the Muxman generated ifo files to the ifo files from the original download kit. Straight away I could see the references to 16:9 which I changed to 4:3 and the whole thing plays perfectly on my PC through PowerDVD.

Once I get the fixed ifo files to cure the time problem and to allow me to shrink it, I am confident that I can modify those new files to work on my 4:3 fullscreen version and finally burn a test DVD.



Today, I was sent the fixed ifo files - many thanks for that and the subsequent offer - which cure the 10 hour long film error but, as I have done the conversion on the Fullscreen version, DVD Shrink will still not open the files to allow me to shrink down do fit a SL DVD.

Anyhow, A4 DVD Shrinker allowed me to shrink and burn to a disk but the encoding is hideous so I am still looking for an alternative fix.

On the other hand, compare that problem to how often I am going to watch a Fullscreen Ep 3 with the dodgy translation subs on my 42" widescreen plasma telly and what I have done is more than good enough.

The fun was in doing the thing, seeing if I could do it and proving that the kit worked on the Fullscreen version of the film.

Many thanks to marioxb for all his hard work and thanks for all the help and guidance from all others who have helped too.

If a fix or better shrink method is found, I will let everyone know.
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#204500
Topic
'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204500/action/topic#204500
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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
The fullscreen thing probably isn't working because the IFO that marioxb wrote specifies for the video to be stretched out to the 16x9 ratio.


Success.

I downloaded Ifo Edit and compared the Muxman generated ifo files to the ifo files from the original download kit. Straight away I could see the references to 16:9 which I changed to 4:3 and the whole thing plays perfectly on my PC through PowerDVD.

Once I get the fixed ifo files to cure the time problem and to allow me to shrink it, I am confident that I can modify those new files to work on my 4:3 fullscreen version and finally burn a test DVD.

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#204445
Topic
'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204445/action/topic#204445
Time
Time for some feedback.

I too was getting an AC3 file but I got TWO M2V files and Muxman would not allow both files to be imported. It seems that Smartripper defaults to 4Gb max file size and split the M2V file accordingly. I set the max file size higher and am re-ripping now.

Now for the Fullscreen specifics. (I will know more when I finally finish)

I imported the (4Gb incomplete) M2V in Muxman and followed all the instructions. This generated a set of vob/ifo/bup files which I played using PowerDVD. The video was still Fullscreen aspect ratio and the subs were in blue and red?????

I then moved the vob files as instructed into the Video_ts folder with the rest of the "download kit" and played using PowerDVD again and something strange happenned.

The subs are now white but the video is now stretched into what looks like a 16:9 aspect ratio like a widescreen/letterbox picture. Kinda strange. There is probably a setting in the ifo that causes this.

On first impressions, it seems to be working and once I finish the re-rip and get the fixed ifo files, I will burn a sample disc and then move on to the Widescreen version.

Thanks for all the work that has gone into this project.
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#204386
Topic
'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204386/action/topic#204386
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Originally posted by: Ell the Ewok
I also cant get anything from rapidshare. If anyone could email it to me or MSN it to me it would be great, and I'd up ity on Filefront for others.

ell_bobin at hotmail dot com

if anyone can.


e-mail sent.

I am still looking for the 100Kb fixed ifo files if someone has and could send it to me. Thanks

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#204332
Topic
'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204332/action/topic#204332
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Thanks for that link.

Somehow, using some of that info, I managed to change something in my setup to allow me to download the main file.
I cannot re-create the circumstances to allow me to download the fixed ifo files but I will keep trying.
Meanwhile, if someone could e-mail me the 100kb fixed ifo files, I would appreciate it.

I am now in the process of modifying the Fullscreen NTSC ROTS first and if that works OK I will be doing the Widescreen version too.