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budwhite said:

Can I also get a link? Thank you!

 PM sent.

thorr said:

How about usenet?  Thanks!  Can't wait to see it!  Is it color corrected differently than the last encode?

 + 1 to usenet. 

Regardless, csd79's version is excellent and it's complete with the original Kinney logo and green lettering in the opening credits. 

If anything it's just another option while we're waiting for other preservations; and it's a good one at that.

For those of you who are tired of waiting for something besides the Italian Cut, this one's the best I've seen so far and was posted yesterday:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/THX-1138-Japanese-letterboxed-LD-preservation/topic/17360/

Warbler said:

So far I hate 2015.  : (

 Sorry to hear that.  I'm loving it now that my Ducks just destroyed the Criminoles and are going to the National Championship.  Got our first ever Heisman and hopefully soon we'll win our first ever championship.

Seattle will clobber you.

Go Seahawks!!!

Monroville said:

There is a 1080p wmv on MySpleen now:

Song of the South 16mm 1080p v1

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Song of the South - 16mm LUT Scan, 1080p Release (version 1)

Welcome to part 1/3 of our Song of the South Christmas Release!

This is the 16mm scan, performed with an LUT and slightly color corrected.

Format : 1080p WMV ( 4.04 GB)
      VIDEO: 1080p downscale from Raw scan
      AUDIO: BBC Television Broadcast

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Minor cleanup with some color correction has been done. This print was scanned nearly two years ago,
but for the holiday season we wanted to make it available to the general public. This 16mm scan is rough,
with a fair amount of damage, but we believe it should be just as available as the other prints.

Originally, the small team working on this had considered waiting for cleanup to be completed before release.
However, due in large part to the cleanup coming to a virtual halt (with other scanning projects taking
precedence over a clean-up job) we feel that now is the time.

We will be releasing the Raw data in the future, if anyone is interested.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 ^

jaireaux said:

How about an answer to the original question?

 'MediaInfo Lite' is what you need.  It will show you the chapter markers and much, much more.  Oh and don't pay attention to that annoyance known as TV's Frink.

smudger9 said:

and here is the Blu Ray cover

 The UK Blu Ray Cover that is.  The US doesn't have a PG triangle.

kodt said:

Is all of it on usenet?

 YES

lotrjw said:

Hal 9000 said:

Well, a few things I removed for Sharkey's Edition are reinstated, including more Arwen stuff in TTT along with Aragorn being separated from the pack. Kerr has done some great stuff for ROTK, including use of the palantir. He and I have been keeping these things under wraps and collaborating together, so I don't want to spill too many beans. The most concise thing I can say is that while it is less strictly "purist" than our former efforts, it's still respectful of the books and of the original films themselves. 

 

I found Kerr's Red book edits, well most of them, I couldn't get book one, so it starts at Rivendell.

If you know of a link to part one

 :     www.fanedit.info

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

chyron8472 said:

RU.08 said:

Why do people even bother downloading the AVCHD version if they don't know how to burn it? The MKV is higher quality and will play on any modern TV from a USB stick... surely people can work out how to do that!

 No it won't. Most things expect USB devices to be formatted as FAT32, and it has a 4GB file size limit.

 I recently purchased a 64GB flash drive for the sole puropse of sharing Harmy's work, and it was pre-formatted in FAT32. Why they do that these days is beyond me, but it was simple enough to just plug it in and format it in NTFS to do what I wanted to do.

 NTFS wears down a flash drive much faster than FAT32.  That and other Pro's and Con's here:

http://serverfault.com/questions/41674/flash-drives-should-be-formatted-ntfs

Okay, after further reading at tehparadox, there is no GOTG 2D un-tinted version. (Unless you download KK650's regrade, which btw I think is really good)

There is however this option for owners of the 3D BD:

" The way 3D BD versions work now is that they are all 2D m2ts files with an extra folder for 3D info that the Blu-ray player will utilize when the 3D mode has been selected/activated. However on the 3D BD the 2D m2ts file comes with the two different aspect ratios. So all you have to really do is turn that file and only that file into an mkv file and you should have your GOTG 2D IMAX BDRX. My 2D IMAX remux came to over 28 gigs btw and looks fantastic! "   (And it will look like the 3D picture above)

Erik Pancakes said:

I'd prefer them burned in and theatrically accurate (fades and all), like they are in Harmy's Despecialized and schorman's AOTC HDTV release.

 +1

Kdrogo said:

Or even just a tip on where to look for the old dvd version, can't seem to find it anywhere!

 http://www.amazon.com/Amadeus-F-Murray-Abraham/dp/6304712936

Edit:   Just like the Exorcist Theatrical DVD I couldn't find it with a Amazon search.  I had to use Google.

CatBus said:

Actually stretch's suggestion to convert the audio track would allow you to keep using the MKV format, so as long as you're okay with all that demuxing, converting, and remuxing, it's doable.

 Actually, when using xvid4psp it would only be demuxing and converting.  You would demux with mkvmerge and then xvid4psp will do everything else in one step.  You want to select Copy for copying the AVC video over.  Then you select Custom for audio conversion to AAC.  I'm not positive but I think you need AAC-LC selected. 

bradt said:

Total newbie here saying hi (a relative graybeard who stood in line many times at the Coronet Theater in SF in 1977) and asking one of *those* questions ....

I put the file on a USB drive and plugged it into my Samsung BD-E5300 Blu-ray player. I got video (dear maker, it's beautiful) but no audio. The error message "Not supported audio codec" flashed on the screen. I imagine the player isn't smart enough or is simply incompatible. Is there anything I can do on my end to rescue the situation? I'm not too tech-savvy, but I'll try anything. Thanks muchly.

 If it's like my Panasonic BD player you'll need to convert the audio to 'AAC'.  XVID4PSP is a free program that's perfect for converting audio.

For those that don't already know, and I didn't see any mention of this here, FE.org is back up.

A little off-topic: So what's the latest on fanedit.info?  I was happy to see it was back up yesterday and now it's back down with .org.

Possessed said:

This is excellent news! And are the full BD25 files on myspleen?  I've got a big screen and I'm not watching star wars unless it's in 1080P... anything lower, high quality though it may be, just feels like a wasted opportunity.

 Wow.  I don't think I've ever seen anyone get so excited over the prequels.

@ litemakr

check your private messages.

Go Ducks!!

Go Mariota!!

Crapple said:

Is rutracker invite only because I can't seem to find the sign up page.  The register page is just the guide lines.

 You want rutracker.org, not .net or .com.  You also definitely want to use Google Chrome to auto-translate the Russian to English.

Edit:   On the register page you must make sure to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page where it says "I agree with these conditions".

FWIW, and I'm not sure how the quality compares, but there's a 1080i HDTV as well as 720p HDTV on rutracker.  There's also a 720p HDTV on usenet.

RicOlie_2 said:

I read both the LOTR books and The Hobbit twice before seeing the movie and I thought it was great. I didn't expect it to be just like the book (how could it, it's part of a lengthy trilogy based on a book aimed at kids) and length isn't a downside in my book, so I was quite satisfied with the way most of it was done.

 both the LOTR books??  I thought there were three.

the Hobbit is part of a lengthy trilogy??  I thought it was a single book that was much shorter than any LOTR book.