towne32

jedimasterobiwan said:

again i’m sorry 😦

Please get whatever help you need to be well. I think I need to explicitly state that I am not messing with you. Your behavior here, as nearly always, is unacceptable and disconcerting. You seem to have some serious issues and I don’t think unleashing them on people you look up to, like Adywan, is really what you intend to be doing. But it is what you are doing. The fact that you cannot see the pattern in your behavior is troubling.

I don’t know what is going on, on the blu-ray forum. But however bad it is or isn’t, please don’t get involved over there, either, in case you are telling someone they need to shut up. If something is bad, that’ll make it worse.

edit: just saw the autism related comment. That makes some sense. I’ve edited the bit about getting help slightly. As someone else said, the best thing for you to do from any thread where you begin to get obsessive, is to take a step back and stop posting.

netgrappler said:

stealthboy said:

I’m on a Mac and just use the Finder to burn my images - Right click on the file and select “Burn Disk Image <filename> to Disc…”. This works well with the .iso images for njvc’s set. Not sure why you would want to use the MKV if you are burning to a physical BD disc. NJVC has two options for you - all 25GB discs or some 50GB discs. Make sure you have the appropriately sized blank discs of course. I chose to go the 25GB route so I needed 10 blank 25GB BD discs.

Nothing to lose and another possible coaster to gain. Will attempt this right now. It can’t be that easy… 😃

Well, don’t go burning anything just yet. Thanks for clarifying.

If you’ve only got the MKV for 2.7, the bad news is you definitely won’t get a menu or any special features.

The good news is it should be fairly easy to burn. You should only need tsmuxer to make your ISO and then any standard image writing program that will use an ISO. If that’s what you already tried, we should probably troubleshoot that step. I’m not sure that I trust any other programs not to re-encode it if using the MKV directly (I don’t know anything about Mac software, though).

Edit: Oh, have you simply been burning the MKV to a disc? Like, you insert the disc and see the MKV and click on it and that’s how it plays on your computer? No, that will never work on a blu-ray player. 😃 Tsmuxer will make it into an ISO.

You’re not mistaken about MKVs and menus. As you say, it’s just unclear where the mistake is.

Blue_Harvest said:

poita said it was pre-scans to just look for damage/missing frames etc., so let’s hope the crop is not on the actual reel.

towne32 said:

alexp120 said:

Was this a glitch in the scanning device?

He has posted the full frame scans before, including the sprockets, etc. Presumably it’s just how the preview is rendered. Though it would be interesting (unfortunate) if that’s the full image.

Really? Is it still available somewhere? Would love to see those.

Not necessarily of this reel, but they’ve been posted in this thread before. He tends to run out of storage space, so I don’t know if it’s still live.

Someone PM’ed him to tell him that he was lying and his videos were GOUT upscales with dirt/damage effects added. So he humored the person. Posted the sample for all to see, and we had a laugh at the fool (poita is a gentleman and didn’t disclose his username).

Maeby said:

netgrappler said:

Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns?

.mkv Files don’t have menus. njvc’s releases are .iso files, ready to burn with menus. If you are calling something “njvc’s .mkv files”, you are most likely trying to burn Harmy’s .mkv files on bluray, not njvc’s .iso files.

Even so, he says he tried tsmuxer. With my mkv, that should still burn correctly (I’ve done so myself). Either way, I think we will need some clarification about what files he’s talking about in order to offer proper help.

What software are you using that won’t let you just export the frame with and without your settings?

This won’t help you with getting exact matching frames, but if you use VLC and just click Video -> Take snapshot, it’ll export the full frame for you to a folder, instead of print screen, opening photoshop, saving, etc. I have not seen someone use windows media player in a long time. A long time. 😉

alexp120 said:

Was this a glitch in the scanning device?

He has posted the full frame scans before, including the sprockets, etc. Presumably it’s just how the preview is rendered. Though it would be interesting (unfortunate) if that’s the full image.

jedimasterobiwan said:

Maul.Oldmaster said:

jedimasterobiwan said:

buck up adywan things will work out in the end

PLEASE learn english or how to use proper grammar for the love of God

Come on what errors did i make?

In your defense, I think it was one of your more comprehensible posts (in terms of grammar). Missing periods and capitalization, but I’ve of course seen worse. Better than 99% of the tweets in existence.

I suspect it may be a problem with his blu-ray player (perhaps not liking the brand of disc) if he has tried that many software options and indeed is using an ISO (and not an MKV). As you all have said, with an ISO, there’s not much that can go wrong.

It’s the ‘computer only viewable discs’ part that seems strange. Hopefully he is not trying to play these back on an Xbox One.

TV’s Frink said:

This one particular thread seems to be attracting this particular brand of spam over and over. I don’t know how spam works exactly but I’m assuming someone who really likes me is sending this url to a spam service.

Ah, yep. That’d be it, then. Probably n64 kid.

Looks like “troll tawney” should have learned Markdown Syntax for his trolling/advertisements/whatever.

Interesting that we now have sleeper agent accounts. This one registered over a month ago. Presumably they registered way more than one at that point.

It does look like it’s just commercial spam (obviously I’m not going to click any of that garbage, though). But given that they only targeted frink’s thread, it seems like it would be from someone like our old friend n64kid (or whatever his name was).

netgrappler said:

New to BD/DVD burning and I think my brain exploded after attempt No 10. Was blown way by njvc’s SW v2.7 release (MKV) and downloaded in hopes that burning this may be an easy task on a Mac.
Why on god’s earth is the menu never included in any of my 2.7 burns? I’ve had some success to burn SW 2.5 ISO (no menu) but the 2.7 MKV eludes me. Used VLC, MPEG streamclip, ffmpeg, tsmuxer, handbrake, Burn, Toast w. BD/HD plugin etc. and finally got a copy of the FinalCut Pro 10.3.1 trial version. Spent 50 hours on this ove the long weekend burning mostly coasters or computer-only viewable disks. Even installed VirtualBox with Windows10 and tried imgburn without success. Can anyone (any Mac guys?) shed some light on a less frustrating way to burn njvc’s BluRay 2.7 release with multi-Audio/Subtitle AND the menu? It is such a polished, professional looking product with the menu. Please, lest I suffer another brain injury? Do I really need to buy a PC? 😃

njvc - any pointers?

Thanks guys… really appreciate some clueing in.

NJVC has an MKV now? What… is the point of it?

For the meantime, I’ll assume there are some typos here and that you originally viewed my MKV and now want to switch to burning his ISO (if I’m misunderstanding, we can start over). Are you burning the single or dual layer version? What are you trying to use for playback? Have you burned any of NJVC’s other discs? What happened with the imgburn attempt?

jedimasterobiwan said:

buck up adywan things will work out in the end

RashadShehadeh said:

towne32 said:

I’ve only used Encore. I’m not sure what a better or easier option would be (there aren’t very many options in the first place).

Most software will probably try to re-encode something like Despecialized, as they detect or assume that it is not BD compliant. If that’s something you can’t get around within the software itself, you can just author the disc and then replace the main video using multiAVCHD. People have posted a guide for that around here before, I think.

As you’ll see with njvc’s discs, Encore (and probably anything else) will also limit your audio track count. With multiavchd, you can then go ahead and add all the extra ones you want. You’ll just need to use your remote to access them instead of the BD menu.

If I do recall correctly Encore allows musing 64 tracks as a limit (Audio and subs combined). I just have this sort of obsession about things looking authentic. I guess I’ll look up some tutorials. And this may sound dumb, but maybe converting it (maybe to m2ts) could leave the quality intact ? Also, great job with the colour correction done in Star Wars 2.7

Thanks.

I could have sworn Encore had a limit of 8 audio tracks, but I might be completely misremembering. 64 might indeed be the limit with subs included.

I’m not sure that Encore would accept an MKV in the first place, so remuxing it to m2ts or simply demuxing the streams would be the way to go anyway. It’s really about whether Encore accepts the streams as compliant or not. Presumably their standards are either excessively high for our purposes, or unable to properly detect the properties of our streams. I’m pretty sure that njvc’s earlier attempt with the 2.7 stream resulted in a re-encoded file. It’s quite possible that it just will not want to burn an unprocessed x264 encode, and will try to re-encode to h264. Anyway, if so, swap back the stream you want with multiavchd.

wren597 said:

I’m pretty sure when GL sold LucasFilm to the House of the Mouse there were stipulations to the original trilogy. Like it or not the current iteration is his “definitive version” of the Saga and Disney can’t mess with it / release HD editions of the Original Trilogy.

I assume you’re just describing a hunch, but I don’t think I’ve seen any evidence that would suggest one way or the other. It would be a bizarre business deal, if so, but not impossible.

What I would be interested in knowing is if, now that Disney owns Star Wars, if that means that George can no longer mess with it either.

That would be the default assumption, unless we see evidence otherwise.

Having seen Neverar’s color for the entire Tantive sequence, it’s absolutely ideal in my opinion. This isn’t at all a comment about how things should or shouldn’t be, just my own personal taste. Jumping into the extremely green shots just throws me right out of the film. And if that makes me a 1980s ANH revisionist, then so be it. 😃

Should Neverar ever change his mind, I’ll just make sure I hang on to the current version for my own use. 😃

On a similar note, Poita recently said that he thinks the Rancor being bright blue in many Jedi prints could be an issue related to the film development labs. As with the hallway shots here, I’ve got to say I prefer the home video (and onwards) look if what we’re seeing is really representative of the theatrical. But maybe they were variable?

To make myself somewhat inconsistent, I’ll say that I also like the decision to keep the nice blue color of the shots with R2 getting into the pod (another thing that was changed in the home video version, I think).

Dre: I think you’ve got the slightest edge on that Droid Sale shot now, with just a bit more flesh color on the skin. But they’ve become very similar indeed.

I’ve only used Encore. I’m not sure what a better or easier option would be (there aren’t very many options in the first place).

Most software will probably try to re-encode something like Despecialized, as they detect or assume that it is not BD compliant. If that’s something you can’t get around within the software itself, you can just author the disc and then replace the main video using multiAVCHD. People have posted a guide for that around here before, I think.

As you’ll see with njvc’s discs, Encore (and probably anything else) will also limit your audio track count. With multiavchd, you can then go ahead and add all the extra ones you want. You’ll just need to use your remote to access them instead of the BD menu.

NeverarGreat said:

Why thank you!
I’m not using any grain, it’s just a color correction using whatever grain that is in the Blu-ray.

Interestingly, the blu-ray grain is almost certainly digital noise added by Lucasfilm in an attempt to camouflage the grain removal and sharpening they did on the negative.

Do you think they would have bothered going that far for the 2004 HD master? Aside from the fact that relatively few people would have really seen or discussed the HD version of it back then, standards were quite a bit lower in general (I am assuming the 04 and 11 have the same grain, but I don’t really have any clue).

I guess it could have simply been ugly enough that the noise reduction would have been too obvious even on DVD.

Yep.

I’m just an inexperienced person in front of a computer screen.

That’s true of many of us. And for everyone else, it was true for them at one point, too.

Swift S. Lawliet said:

a_o said:

alexp120 said:

Revolution said:

Is there any interest in obtaining a true 5.1 source or using the 6.1 source from the blu >rays etc?

• Rev

If you need to cure your 5.1 fix, on the 'spleen there are audio files for the Star Wars Original Trilogy (aka. GOUT) that uses the rarely heard 1997 Special Edition sound mix made from the original CinemaDTS CD-ROM discs. Of course, portions of the audio include the sound mix from the GOUT to patch over footages where the 1997 SE audio would be out-of-place.

Just mux these to the MKV video and you are good to go.

is the music score quieter than the SFX during the death star attack? i dont recall if that change happened in 97 or 2004/2011

I think that happened in the 2004 version.

I listened to the 2011 version once and I think it wasn’t there.

I think that’s right. Didn’t Lucasfilm respond to a complaint about this saying it was an intentional decision, only to go ahead and fix it for the blu-ray?

I also believe I remember reading that the audio channels are swapped for much of the end of the film.

John sil said:

purchase

No one here sells anything, as per the rules.

Yes, I made these and I don’t actually burn AVCHD or DVD9s at all. So, while I could have probably made an mds, my understanding is that the purpose is to make the layer break location. And that’s not something I’d actually be able to test out, so there wouldn’t have been much benefit of me doing that step. Imgburn usually gives several options and estimates of whether they’re more or less ideal.

And indeed, the Certificate folder is just empty. Sometimes torrent clients don’t actually host completely empty folders, and things like this get lost along the way. Not terribly important, but you can make a new empty folder if it gives you trouble.

Presumably, yes. Put them in the same directory (if you have the full set), and open the one that has the lowest number/.rar extension.

Humby said:

That’s one of my issues with Rogue One doing these classic character recreations. If they’re recasting a young Han for this movie, why not just recast Tarkin and Leia. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the visual callback, but it seems to take away from the acclaim that Guy Henry, in particular, deserves. It also sets up the expectation that if we ever see young Leia again, she has to look like Carrie Fischer.

Regardless of whether one is for or against the CGI recreations, I don’t think it sets that kind of precedent. The Han Solo film will take place years before RO or SW/ANH. RO takes places days and hours before SW/ANH, and part of the nostalgic feeling that they were trying to summon, especially at the end of that film, was building a direct link to it.

As you’ll recall, this is why a lot of people pretty much exploded when a rumor surfaced that Alden would have a cameo as Han in Rogue One. Indeed, it would have been inconsistent to have only recast Han, and have him look more like he did 10 years earlier than he would a few days later.

Jan Dodonna would be the recasting exception, I guess. Presumably it was a small enough part that they didn’t worry about it. But also, to recreate the Tarkin model they really had to analyze and incorporate tons of footage from throughout Peter’s career. There’s not likely that kind of wealth of visual material for Alex McCrindle.

Not sure about the error.

But as far as the resuming goes, you could always only queue up what will fit within the limit, so that you don’t end up redownloading anything. Alternatively, I’ve found that Mega’s own windows app does resume just fine. So you could use that when you’re close to your limit.

Not great solutions, but the main thing is that mega has become ridiculously less convenient. Oh well, it was a bit too good to be true for a while anyway. Gotta pay Kim Dotcom’s astronomical legal bills, presumably.