I find that freerapid is much better for uloz as it bypasses captchas. But if it doesn’t work, jdownloader is worth a shot.
Towne32, do you plan on releasing any v2.8 or v2.9, ever?
Nope, I won’t be doing any other versions. The next version will be Harmy’s 3.0 and that will likely not be for quite a long time.
I was a bit curious myself. Was wondering if he thought it was rushed or something, but I guess not.
I mean, I could give a timeline of the project before and after making contact with Harmy about it. But it would hardly be anything of interest. The events are also pretty clear if you browse through my thread. At least from the time that I started it, onwards.
I think it’s a good idea to change the name. I don’t think it will help with the spleen issues, though. Negative1 can still contact them and claim that it’s “his work” being stolen or something. Though I’d love to see his name removed from it.
I say we just let the guy doing the work decide what he wants to do.
I believe he had.
Can we just have a dedicated disc for all the special features? Either one per film or one giant disc of all three films’ special features.
Yep! Option B that I listed has just that. Looks like everyone is in agreement if he really doesn’t mind doing both versions. If he does mind, then there will be more to discuss!
I know I just posted, but I’m still trying to wrap my head around what you are saying.
A GREAT treatment of BONUS content corresponding to those feature films will BEST be realized by the separation of content to help “de-clutter” the project. When removed from a BD50 size where HALF the room on the disc is taken up by the FEATURE content, opting for a (x3) BD25 model basically gives EQUAL size for BONUS content and, hell, if there were some GREAT bonus content on a few well mastered BONUS BD50 discs that’s TWICE the space.
Can you rephrase this somehow? This is what we are saying.
Option A.
ANH BD50: Feature and bonus features.
ESB BD50: Feature and bonus features.
RotJ BD50: Feature and bonus features.
Option B. People who download option B do not need to download option A
ANH BD25: Feature
ANH BD25: Bonus features
ESB BD25: Feature
ESB BD25: Bonus Features
RoTJ BD25: Feature
RoTJ BD25: Bonus features
The plan we are suggesting is the release of both of these options. It does not inconvenience you because you do not need to download the BD50s. If it is not a big deal for OP to make and upload (for which we would be very grateful), it is not something that makes sense to oppose, as I see it. Does this make sense now?
I’m still not fully sure that you understand the plan. You will not need to download, seed, or burn anything extra. You will have the option of downloading two BD25s. One will be the feature. One will be the bonus features. Others, like myself, will download the BD50. I’m not sure if you aren’t understanding this, or if you’re just saying that you’ll be compelled to download and seed the BD50 alternative, non-overlapping option simply because it was released. If an updated version comes out, you can download the feature BD25 and not the bonus BD25, if it wasn’t updated. This is assuming that he is even still here and updating the project at that point.
I don’t understand the opposition to allowing other people the option of a BD50 download. If he doesn’t mind uploading it, which seems to be the case (it is not a big deal for those of us without data caps from our ISPs. Literally an overnight upload for the set.
It’s also not like Harmy is pumping out constant releases. They are rather rare events, in fact. Each of the three films is updated on such rare occasion, that it is hardly worth worrying about. And by then, maybe he’ll want to change the bonus features anyway. That’s assuming that he’s still a member of the forum at that point.
Let’s look specifically at the forcasted releases. ESB will probably be out sometime this year. If you don’t want to waste bandwidth, and he does update his discs to ESB 2.5, you probably want to avoid the ESB 2.0 release. After that, it is going to most likely be a very long wait for 3.0. It could be years. It’s silly to avoid a BD50 simply because in 2+ years there is a chance that this guy will make more discs, and you can save yourself from redownloading the bonus features.
As for point 1 that you made, I think that is quite silly. There is no rush to prioritize main feature releases. People who can’t figure out how to plan an MKV are not going to be downloading, burning and playing blu-ray ISOs. More and more people are not really getting into blu-ray burning. They’re using home networking. They’re also unlikely to care about whether audio or video were re-encoded. If they’re technically inclined enough, they’ll find one of the hundred posts on this forum where we all describe the 15 second process of using tsmuxer with MKVs. As I said before, it doesn’t make sense to prioritize anything just so that people can have a menu immediately.
I’m sorry if I’m misunderstanding you. I don’t mean to be rude, but your posts are a bit unclear to me. The capitalizations make it a bit worse and are so frequent that I’m not sure they’re adding emphasis rather than “shouting”. Maybe I’m just tired.
Im that really mild-joke guy. They are so mild they caused a stir.
I’m going to assume every post of yours is exactly that. Plausibly trolling. Plausibly real questions from someone who doesn’t pay very close attention to the threads he posts in or who doesn’t know English (or German) very well. But apparently it’s really just the most mild trolling ever to get attention or something.
The idea that he seems to be going with (and that most of us have agreed might be best) will not sacrifice video or audio quality by re-encoding anything.
But I don’t agree with you that it should be the PRIMARY GOAL, mainly because is not really much of a goal. Yes, it is nice to have a menu instead of manually switching the audio track. But that alone is hardly worth the trouble of creating or downloading. But the package with extras, along with the menu, is what makes it a tempting download. And I don’t see why there is any need for him to focus on the main features and get those out before the other parts of the set. We have the films in the same quality already, there is absolutely no rush for this. If anything, he should hold onto everything in case he makes any changes to any part, in order to keep consistency.
I don’t see how the current plan is contrary to your wishes. You’ve said that 2x BD25 per film and no re-encoding is okay with you, and that is the plan. There will also be a 3x BD50 plan for people who want to do that.
It looks like you can import SUP with MultiAVCHD
Yes, I’ve gotten this to work before.
so I had to work with a Windows ME
Oh man, that’s actually funnier than I expected. I forgot all about WinME.
EDIT: you still hold a slight grudge on me, sigh.
Don’t take it too seriously, there’s no grudge. But, also, don’t pre-bitch about the method that you might be gifted something. You can get help to work out your mega.nz problems. It works great for distributing large files, when used properly.
Indeed, a disc layout/LBA issue sounds more likely than what we see in BDEdit. The seamless flag is set correctly, and I really don’t think that the In Time has much to do with it, though I could be wrong. Commercial discs tend to have that In Time regardless of whether they branch or not. And it’s correct relative to the out time.
Are they missing in the original m2ts files as well as your remux/re-encode?
The contrast/white levels of the 2004 transfer bothers me way more than the color. Everything looks so dim and the sabers never have a white core.
Well at least they fixed about 60% of the screwed up shots in 2011.
They should’ve just gotten the ILM guys who did the PT to add lightsabers to the OT if they felt a need to redo it. Either that or just left it as it was in 1997. I can’t really understand how anyone could have looked at those shots, which are the most iconic thing about Star Wars, and decide that it wasn’t still a work in progress. The PT had no noticeable issues with lightsaber color consistency or brightness, and George seemed to be into the idea of consistency between the trilogies.
Although the branch itself is seamless for me (suggesting that he does have the seamless flag set), the video is a little bit laggy for the first second or so afterwards when running from disc on the ps4. No other issues with video throughout the film. So there might indeed be an issue with the in-time, but I’m not sure.
As far as the other flags go, I’m not sure he needs to go hacking around with BDEdit, unless he really did forget to set the flag with the software he’s using. I know you’ve done quite a bit of analysis of some of these flags in commercial discs, Valeyard, but it turns out to be quite simple to set up seamless branching with the right software. Thanks, Williarob, for the help with that. It might be of interest to you, Valeyard, to test out the software in otherwise compiling identical images with the seamless flag set vs. not set, to see what the result looks like in BDEdit. PM me if you want to discuss that further.
link to the fan-edit? (hope its not godamn MEGA.)
I hope you’re lucky enough to get a link at all. Once again, not everyone needs to make sure everything works smoothly for people running 15 year old computer setups.
If you do get one, maybe you’ll be kind enough to rehost it for people who still use Netscape Navigator on Windows 95 with a 500 Mb harddrive. Right?
The way you are responding to people’s honest and respectful feedback/opinions is urging me to lose my respect for you.
I assume he’s just having a bad day, since he’s normally a bit more open minded about the criticism. The critique about the yellow fleshtones is a somewhat common one around here, and he normally deals with it well. Or maybe it was just one too many times.
What? We all say “despecialized” around here. I think I take back what I said before, you’re being extremely sensitive. I doubt he meant anything by that and you shouldn’t think that someone failing to replicate your exact spelling means disrespect. I’ve watched every one of your semi versions and never noticed the spelling difference.
Edit: WTF. Your thread title uses a “z” and not an “s”. Are you trolling us with that title?
Edit 2: Oh, you didn’t start the thread. Still not a big deal, though.
Edit: Retracted.
Not sure if you’re aware, but my release of Despecialized 2.7 included two Russian dubs that I got from Catbus (and one Ukranian one) that were not present in 2.5. One of the Russian ones is from the 80s (although perhaps that was speculation if the first showing really was this 90s version?), the other is recut from the SE. That’s all I know about them. I don’t know if it’s the same as these new uploads.
Maybe that’s the main thing.
While we’re making requests, I think the TN1 logo instead of THX is great. I think it would have a much cooler impact without the message 😉 before it and corresponding GOUT definition.
With how professional the whole intro and menu look, it just kind of brings it back to looking very DIY/homemade. If you want a message to explain the project’s purpose, maybe a different screen entirely?
I’m not sure what bugs me about it. The font or the emoticon or the quick GOUT definition afterwards at the bottom? I dunno, Just a thought.
Here’s a quirk I found with the 1.5 blu ray, after the fox fanfare on both crawls, the lucasfilm limted video seems to bounce. it’s not just the logo, it’s the whole frame and it’s more noticeable with the 81 crawl.
Yes. I’ve seen this happen when you try to stabilize something as it’s fading in and out and there’s nothing else to anchor it. In fact, it happened when I stabilized SSE 1.0’s ALTA card for DE 2.7. I just had to manually align the fading frames.
I’m testing it out with drop frame set to true, I’ll let you know if that corrects the issue. If it does, I expect we’ll need to re-up the whole thing. Anybody find any other issues? Any problems with the menus?
Also confirming that the sync issue happens on hardware. But also, I selected the Spanish audio track from the 1981 menu and it just played the English track 1. I will double check and see if I can repeat the error tomorrow.
Other than that, no problems. Looks great!
Hey if the BD has to be rebuilt the remaining cue marks for reel 3 could be removed I guess. This is the silver lining.
Rebuilding the disc and menu and re-encoding the film are different beasts, though.
I can burn it later tonight to check. I don’t use subtitles, so no loss for me if there is a fix later.