slark

solkap said:

Hi slark,

Have you had any trouble with the official links of the ESB 2.0 MKV or AVCHD as posted on tehparadox?

Well, as I often the case, I posted just a little too soon!

Looks like third time was the charm.

I extracted from the RAR files (again, downloaded from Usenet, and yes, it passed CRC) but this time I immediately ran it through tsMuxer TWICE: first to change it to another format (M2TS), THEN to Blu-ray. THIS time it worked just fine.

Odd that the first two times I extracted it - to different drives - it yielded a conversion error in EXACTLY the same place (at 1 minute 52 seconds into the film).

I’ve had this experience before - where tsMuxer encounters an error in an MKV - but often, if you convert to an interim format, you can “filter out” the error.

Thanks for the responses, BTW!

A note to anyone intending to D/L the 19.7Gb MKV of 2.0 from a.b.test (posted almost a year ago):

I’ve downloaded this - a couple of times - and according to the PAR, all files check, no errors. However, when extracted, video freezes at 00:01:52. Tried running it through MeGUI, MKVMerge, and Meteorite to no avail. Clearly, the file was bad BEFORE it was RARed, so unfortunately, this D/L was a bust.

I got the 720p AVCHD of 1.0 (from a.b.starwars) as a “consolation prize”; that checked out okay and seems to play well.

Just a heads-up to anyone intending to D/L from Usenet…

And if you’re so damned determined to offer us every frame of Fantasia, Disney, offer us EVERY frame!

(Yes - I’m talking about the Pastoral…)

They really ought to consider a seamless-branching release of Fantasia; that way they could satisfy those who want both (or either) version(s). Where’s the great difficulty in that?

Frankly, I don’t care for the “Roadshow” version. All that’s really added is that Deems Taylor (errr… Corey Burton) describes “what you are about to see” for each segment. (“Ummm, yeah, dude - I have every intention of watching it and seeing for myself. So if you’d kindly STFU and let’s get on with it, shall we?”)

You are correct. By default, it played back at 30 fps.


The script, as I built it, was created to run through multiAVCHD to produce a spec-compliant AVCHD.


"Shirley" it's a matter of preference; this is mine. YMMV.

:D

The 16mm capture is more complete, but the version posted on the newsgroups was a WMV. I wrote an AviSynth script for it:

DirectShowSource("Song of the South 16mm 1080p.wmv",fps=29.97, convertfps=True)
Trim(204,0) tfm(order=1).tdecimate().converttoyv12()
ConvertToYV12().crop(226,0,-226,0).LanczosResize(720,480)

But try as I might to clean up the color, it didn't satisfy.

The 35mm copy - which was posted as a DVD - had much better color, but suffered from damage, particularly at the end of each reel. (There was about 30-35 seconds missing from one of the Br'er Rabbit sequences.) I filled-in the latter with the missing footage from the former to fill in the gaps. My splices are clean, but I'm sure a better editor could do more with it.

After two months and three distinct versions, I have done as much as I believe can be done with this film with existing sources and materials. Here’s a snippet from my NFO file:

<div class=“PostQuote”>Are you a Doc Savage fan or George Pal fan or a hero/superhero fan - or just a
movie fan - that saw the 1975 “Doc Savage” film and came away disappointed?
Well, Have No Fear - “The Doc” is Here! He put his nose to the grindstone for
two months and now is pleased to (noselessly) announce that this movie has
finally gotten the re-edit it has needed for over thirty years…

This is a labor of love from someone who’s long felt that George Pal deserved a
swan song without a cheesy male chorus. Check out the “Changes - by
Chapter.rtf” file for a comprehensive listing of the improvements made to this
version of the film, and ENJOY!</div>

Though I know that most of you guys prefer distributing through torrents or RS, I’m an old Usenet guy, so I’m in the process of posting this to alt.binaries.dvd. It’ll take me a couple of days at my sad <50K/sec upload speed, but hey - that would apply no matter how I 'strib it. Maybe some kind soul will grab it from the newsgroup & seed it? (If not, I will, but again… SLOWWWWWLY…)

I will post my “Changes - by Chapter” file in a reply here for the curious…

Thanks to all of you guys for the inspiration!