yoda-sama

Dat_SW_Guy said:

I am just gonna post my unofficial x264 mkv of 2.7 on the spleen, but I need to have permission so that I can post it, so can I, just post it?

Pretty sure I wrote something earlier, while being helpful on how to compress your own version, stating very clearly to do so only for your own personal use and NOT to share it anywhere, ESPECIALLY since you don’t know what the Hell you are doing. For the love of God, the last thing you should actually do is share that anywhere, it would be a complete disservice to the Despecialized Edition effort. No one here wants you to do it or would be at all okay if you go ahead and do it anyway. If you like watching your own version that most of us who know more about video compression would consider unwatchable, that is good for you; please don’t contribute to the problem of us having to deal with complaints from people who get files like this and think the problems they encounter have anything to do with the creator-endorsed versions.

Dek Rollins said:

TV’s Frink said:

THIS ISNT A BABY

Yes it is! It’s Williarob’s 3ABY now.

3 years After Battle of Yavin?

TV’s Frink said:

I WILL MAKE THIS THREAD GREAT AGAIN

FREE PARKING AND VIRUS SCANS FOR EVERYONE WHO VOTES FOR ME

TV’s Frink is not catering enough to the Linux users! What are his plans to compensate for the “value” of the virus scans we will not require??? Though, we are all over the free parking.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

And if anyone’s wondering on how I made Windows Media Player play .m2ts hardcore, I use Matroska Splitter 😄

We asked “why”, not “how”.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Is there a 5-3 GB version of 2.7 in x264 MKV format?

5-3 GB would be 2 GB, if my math is not mistaken… Best to just ask for what you specifically want, rather than to leave it up to us to figure it out (there’s always the chance we could get it wrong).

More seriously, anything in the size range you’re looking for, which isn’t also a lower resolution / different format (e.g. DVD), that you’d find to download somewhere would be a version that’s recompressed by someone unrelated to the project. At that point, you’re often just as well or better off taking the full quality MKV and, as mentioned by others, compressing it yourself (for just your own use) through a free program like Handbrake (and it works in Linux, so even I approve!). At least that way you’re not propagating others’ terrible encodes, you know exactly what you’re getting, and any problems you might find you can easily figure out whether it is something you introduced by comparing it to the original you compressed yours from before complaining in here (fielding complaints about crappy reencodes people confuse for the actual releases happens so very often). Just don’t go around sharing your own reencode with people (unless you’re a video compression expert, and frankly, very, very few people are), as it won’t do the Despecialized Edition proper justice.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

nevermind, I have installed a codec and WMP works well with 2.7.

WMP… Wow, you really do work in dark and mysterious ways, Darth Jar Jar…

I understand your lack of English knowledge, but I think we all my have shuddered a bit reading “Special Edition 3.0”.

Which editions of the Laserdiscs have commentary tracks? I own 3 versions (Definitive Collection, Faces, and an older set I recently inherited). Granted, my wife would kill me right now if I added to the house clutter by dragging out and setting up an LD player…

The short explanation would be, no one is really sure what the original colors were, at least not exactly. These colors are best guesses, based off of the best references available (for v2.5 it turned out that reference wasn’t adjusted correctly, v2.7 tries to adjust closer to what may have been seen theatrically in 1977).

Overall, the Despecialized editions are currently the closest we have to proper HD theatrical versions. They may not be exact, but they’re darn good.

I’m confused, is he trying to do a bad impression of Jar Jar using the internet to pirate Star Wars?

If you’re having this amount of issues, you may want to check whether you’re having hardware problems, such as a hard disk that’s slowly dying (it could explain your random I/O errors). But in general people usually don’t talk this much HERE about the process of actually finding and downloading the files, this site is more for discussion ABOUT the projects, so it would probably be best to not go into as much specific detail.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

For some reason, you guys talking about 3D ROTJ just reminided me of Anakin’s Eyebrows in 1.0. …Why?

Because they stand out?

Besides, 2.7 was given to Towne32 since Harmy had done most of the pre-3.0 work he was going to do on SW, with ESB Harmy is still actively working on bumping it to what should be the last pre-3.0 version, and ROTJ was a very recent product (that is, his work has been getting better with time, and SW was, by far, the oldest project of the bunch and was more open to some improvements). At this point, once ESB versions up to match the style (lack of GOUT) of the rest of the films, it is all v3.0+ from here out.

kk650 said:

Do you have any plans to work on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Despecialized Editions?

Do you have specific problems with those colors that warrants it?

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Im late.

Ryrynz said:

Anyone with a spare spleen? Thank you!

Is Frink really not going to touch any of these?

Honorable mention section has been a thing since Harmy asked for donations so he could afford a computer to do this work on, and that was before Empire v2.0. It really should be on all DeEd releases since that point.

towne32 said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Are there any screenshot comparisons between the GOUT and 35mm? Just curious to see the upgrade.

Only in the shots that are 100% GOUT (because the 2.5 shot resembles that, though it’s obviously further processed). Admittedly, it’s a bit hard to tell the difference in some for a single scaled down screenshot, but it’s more noticeable in motion. Darth Lucas’s saber element upgrade from GOUT is immediately clear even with the screenshot.

Though in motion there is a weird effect around the saber, basically there’s like a little event horizon between the two film elements if you look closely around the saber, hehe. This is one thing I hope will be done a little better in v3.0 and even more so rectified officially by Disney/Lucasfilm someday.

Alice Jameson said:

Just finished downloading 2.7, but I’ve noticed that the Honorable Mention section of the Despecialized credits seem to be missing at the end. Was there a reason for this?

I haven’t actually watched through the credits yet (though I’ve already commented on the noticeable improvements overall), but this would bother me very much if so, as I donated handsomely to help out Harmy in his time of need and was hoping that credit would never get left off of any future releases (I do love pointing out my name in the credits of the only Star Wars versions worth watching).

Mavimao said:

I don’t like nor dislike 3D, personally. However, I totally forget I’m watching 3D after about 10 minutes and I ask myself: why am I paying extra money for this??

^This^ I sometimes like 3D in the theater, but my brain flattens the image before long, and I have to keep switching to polarized sunglasses (to make it properly 2D, in IMAX, at least) for a little while to make the effect obvious again when I put the 3D glasses back on, but it never lasts. At best, if the 3D isn’t really shitty post converted cardboard cut out looking stuff, I still kind of appreciate subtle depth throughout, like roundness of faces… but that’s about it.

Wazzles said:

His son has seen the finished product. He’s probably the only kid his age in the world to have seen the original version of Star Wars in a theater.

yotsuya said:

4k is more suited to 3D and gaming than motion pictures.

Which is why they didn’t include 3D in the 4K Blu-ray specs…

fandangos said:

yoda-sama said:

Well, according to what is available on the Spleen, the GOUT synced BD’s of SSE and ESB Grindhouse have all the English tracks you’d expect from the Despecialized edition (plus Portuguese as desired by the uploader), including the DTS-HD MA tracks. Maybe what we should instead be asking is: dear God, HOW did you author these BDs? Also, how many audio and subtitle tracks can this method handle, assuming it has a menu (which it should, if it has selectable crawls)?

I am looking at the correct files… right?

I’m the author of those discs you are talking about and that’s not what we are talking here.

We are talking about the upcoming release by Williarob, that will be BD50 with Menus and seamless branching for the crawls.

Also my discs have no menu, they were made simply with TsMuxer, I have no knowledge how to author a Blu-Ray menu except using pre-made ones like MultiAVCHD made by DeanK.

Oh crap, I saw those and (with the limited time and attention I could afford) thought he’d put them up early. I skimmed the description enough to know it was BD compliant, GOUT synced and generally what audio tracks were included. That’s about as much as I knew for sure. Thanks for the clarification. I downloaded them out of my initial excitement, but haven’t watched either; I’ll probably keep at least ESB, it sounds promising, so thanks for that.

TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

Anyway

Yep.

See? You Windows guys are all alike.

But, I digress, this quaint little tangent has gone just far enough that any further would be overdoing it. Let this comment be the end of it for now (I brought this conversation into this world, I should be the one to take it back out again).

Harmy said:

Sorry - wouldn’t count on it. V2.0 is still pretty good though 😃

You guys just don’t know how to “read” Harmy. This is his way of saying “yes, hold off, it’ll be done in time, but don’t hold me to it”. Thanks for this confirmation, Harmy 😉

towne32 said:

Navigating folders at all on a mac makes me sad. As does finding if someone bothered to port a piece of software to it. 😃

Oh, I agree, Mac navigation is terrible (you seem to need to inherently know what you’re doing and where things are to simply get around). I think it is already pretty well known I’m a Linux guy.

You Windows users just make me sad…