towne32

Looking at it now, it’s not as though the entire logo is crystal clear when it’s that far away, but I think it’s the entire logo as it looks at that distance. The brightest or least transparent part seems to be the top pixels of “WARS”.

Edit: Wait. Am I an idiot and it’s just that the logo is accidentally disappearing behind the stars for a while? And then once the center/middle star mask disappears, we get the last two frames of the Star Wars logo as it should look?

Sounds good. I don’t think anyone is in a hurry.

When you say the “bottom” of the 97 crawl, do you just mean the last few frames (and/or when it’s farthest away?) I’m pretty sure you could see most of the “Star Wars” text and not just the bottom of it - just want to make sure we’re talking about the same thing. Or maybe I’m mistaken and it was just the bottom of the letters.

As for the grain, I think even adding a bit more artificial grain to the image could do the trick. It shouldn’t be jarring given how much is on the next shot. But I’m curious to see what you’ve come up with!

TV’s Frink said:

darthrush said:

Dreamaster said:

yoda-sama said:

Blurring the line, as you’ve been doing, between new user and troll is what mocks new users and erodes our willingness to help in general. Just hang out and chat with actual sentences, and leave the humor to Frink and the rest for a while till you see how things generally work here, and you might find that you can have a good time without pissing everyone off by confusing the Hell out of them.

OMG! It’s funny reading all these brutal comments and I’m thinking “There’s a whole different set of rules for Frink!?” You actually came right out and admitted it. This has become one of my least favorite communities. You all treat each other like crap, but especially new users. And I apologize for opening my mouth and continuing this in your thread Harmy… but that one just lit me up.

+1 so hella true

Thanks for catching up a week later.

Hella thanks.

Darth Lucas said:

I’m not sure what you mean by the re-appearing Star Wars logo. I’ve looked through it and the logo fades out and then I can’t see any trace of it after that. What exactly are you referring to? Maybe it was an issue with the encoding?

At about 42 seconds in, just as the the first pixels of “A New Hope” begin to appear, the Star Wars logo returns (just as those starts in the center of the screen are awkwardly fading out - if you’re fixing those then I guess the logo will be fixed in the process).

Dat_SW_Guy said:

2 weeks of waiting for the BD25 -.-

Lent?

Can’t speak for Rob of course, but I would say not to worry about rushing it. If there are more errors to be spotted, then hopefully we can catch them.

Are you going to try to do anything about the static grain on Tatooine? I think it looks a lot better than some of the very early attempts, but I think a few people did notice it even in the last release. Anyway, the only problem that I thought was pretty big last time was the reappearing Star Wars logo. Presumably happened in the process of looping the starfield?

As far as the spleen goes, they are indeed incredibly lenient compared to any other private tracker. There may have been one SW related purge, when they also stopped handing out invites for SW, but mostly they just delete inactive accounts. That tends to cover the people who just grab a SW release or two, because they never log back in anyway.

Myspleen is the only private tracker I know of where you see a user talking shit about a release in the comments, click their name and see they’re a member of two years with a .02 ratio. 😃

That said, I’m all for telling new invitees that they need to seed, which I believe is how this discussion started.

If a fix is going up on myspleen, I would definitely suggest making it bold and clear that people can (hopefully) just use their existing download to quickly patch up with the new torrent.

Very strange that there are two distinct versions coming from usenet. Maybe people who have each version should compare checksums of the rars themselves.

Chewtobacca said:

towne32 said:
Do you mean they extracted it and rebuilt it for the spleen version?

I was referring to this post.

SnooPac said:
The version that ended up on spleen was just the exact extracted ISO from Usenet. No changes were made. Not intentionally, anyway.

I took it to mean that the ISO had been extracted – somebody always does this. People don’t always view extracting it as changing it, which is how I interpreted the second half of the post. Maybe I misinterpreted it, but it’s happened before that extracting the ISO has caused problems with checksums and the like.

Oh okay. I was pretty sure that this was about extracting from rar files. I do not believe rar files are allowed on the spleen (nor is there any need for them for a torrent, really).

Chewtobacca said:

This happens every time someone extracts the ISO. Why extract it? Why do anything to it?

Do you mean they extracted it and rebuilt it for the spleen version?

So, the one on the spleen is presumably corrupted?

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Time to torture myself with some of Frink’s movies.

What a great place to post about that.

TV’s Frink said:

towne32 said:

Edit oops nevermind

I will consider this for the crawl, along with the Nirvana album cover.

Sorry, that was a typo. I was actually requesting Nevermind the Bollocks.

Well, it would have a wealth of HD original shots to make a pretty incredible fan-edited version including whatever crawl variation you want (I personally prefer the Markdown Syntax text). And 99% of people outside of this forum who want the OOT would probably be satisfied enough with it as-is. So, while not perfect, it would hardly be pointless.

Edit oops nevermind

_Shorty said:

But still the original scan, then, correct?

Mostly, with some replacements and missing frames added from other scans.

njvc said:

Replacing the video stream would be the easiest option but not everyone will be inclined to do that.

Especially those of us who can’t manage to get the stream replacement trick working. 😉

If we’re pointing out typos, there’s an even more minor one for the Russian track in SW77 (a stray ]). Just for the ‘next time’ list, which would probably be several years in this case. 😃

Oops, I completely misread that. No, I wouldn’t necessarily count on other people being as tired as I was and then making an assumption. 😃

But hold on a sec, because I think I’m still more confused than I was a week ago. I did think that the bonus docs disc was one for the trilogy. But, having watched it last night, it’s just documentaries for the first film, unless I missed an option to get to another menu screen.

The first page seems to confirm this:

Each film will have 4 options for download. (Recommended: Options 3+4)

clutchins said:

Say something like this:

ESB DE 2.0 BD25: Just the Film
ESB DE 2.0 BD25: Just the Special Features
ESB DE 2.0 BD50: Film + Special Features + Bonus Commentaries
ESB DE 2.0 BD25: Documentaries

The third one doesn’t have the Bonus Documentaries.

Perhaps releasing them as

ESB Disc 1
ESB Disc 2
ESB Discs 1 and 2 (Combined as a BD50)
ESB Disc 3

Of all the monitor possibilities, I still think the one that Anakin knocks into on Mustafar is the biggest, and most likely to be legible. It’s a fast shot, though.

TV’s Frink said:

Dek Rollins said:

Wherever it goes in the film, I agree with 005 that it should be in the credits. First and second (maybe even third?) listings.

I don’t think it really fits in the credits.

I agree. No matter what, it’s going to be a bit of an OT insider joke. But at least if it’s on a screen somewhere, or similar, it can be recognized as an error-type message by others. Putting it in the credits or crawl really only makes sense to those of us reading the thread. And even then, I would argue that the text’s presence alone isn’t very funny (see HansiG’s post), especially once you’ve seen a few Markdown jokes already.

Don’t remember that scene, will have to look. Would have been great in II concerning the missing planet, either in the library archive or the hologram.

Can you somehow get it to display on the screen on Mustafar when Anakin bashes into it (causing all of the lava machinery to go to shit)?