use this one http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3339934 itll take a few minutes to get going give it time to find seeds it also helps to turn off any firewalls so you dont refuse any connections but alot of people (including me) dont like doing that.

im using good ol bittorrent.

righty, thread has been re-opened.

please keep "torrent watch" type posts in the chat thead.

I cannot get this usenet shit to work. some of the files did not come out as winrar files. fucking usenet is a goddamn pain in the ass any help would really be cool

Stan:



Go to your download folder, right click the sw3a.r00 file and choose extract (i usually let it go into it's own folder just to keep things tidy).

Then, after that one finishes, find your sw3b.r00 file and extract it in the same way. You will have two files.

The only reason you will need the PAR2 files is if your .rar files are corrupt. In that case you will need the PAR program from this website: http://www.quickpar.org.uk/Download.htm. They have a great tutorial in the tutorial section on how to use it. The tutorial for using QuickPar to verify and repair damaged files is at http://www.quickpar.org.uk/VerifyingAndRepairing.htm.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the heads up on that, but, alas, downloading the DVD rip has made me exceed my monthly allowance on Giganews. I'll try the torrents.

On topic, I'm hoping that everyone else's copy of this has a little bit of issues when the scroll is disappearing into the distance. At a certain point it looks staticy, but only at a certain point on the screen.

Anyone else notice this, or is it just mine?

alright, so is there a way to convert these xvid cd 1 and 2 files into something that can be burnt onto CDs and viewed on a dvd player? is it possible to convert them to vcds or svcds for us without a dvd burner?

No. In fact, you can't even convert them to DVD. BluRay only, peasant.

Why don't you just convert them to .VOB and .IFO files and make a DVD? screw VCD.

actually, if it comes down to HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray will likely win out since it's the format of choice on PlayStation 3.

And now for MY dumbass question: What are the exact sizes of the avi files? I seem to have found them on edonkey (I gave up on the torrents as they kept hogging my connection). It's definitely a two-disc copy of ROTS, but I'm not sure if it's the DVD rip or one of the newest telecines. I've only been able to preview like half a second of each, in a window, so I'm not sure.

The files I'm downloading are 698.75 MB and 696.62 MB, respectively.

I used Virtual Dub to merge the files, then DivxtoDVd to make the .VOB files and Copy To DVD to burn the disk.

It looks pretty damn good, but my music skips a little, like the a dust particle on a vinyl record type skip. Also, the video seems jittery, or it's possible that Lucas used much more of the shaky handheld cam effect than I previously realized, did anyone else have this problem?

Madine, how did yours turn out, any similar artifacts to mine?

Anyone else use a different method?

calling me a peasant because i had a relatively easy to answer question isn't exactly making you look like a knowledgable person about this shit, in fact, maybe actually answering my question and THEN insulting me would've been more cutting. By the way, Venezuela.... and you're calling ME a peasant.. have fun in your country bud.

Well, gosh -- let me help you out by providing just as many details in my answer as you did in your question:



Yes.

Did you notice these problems upon viewing it off the DVD on a television screen or beforehand, on your computer?

WinDVD? To watch or to burn?

Only after converting and burning.

Fatboy, what program do you use to convert to MPEG2 and then do the demux and remux with?

"I have a bad feeling about this"

Confirmed "issue" with the wonderous Xvid. I had a little help from FB in the confirmation.

The left and right channels are switched in the AC-3 file. This means that the sound is imaging backwards across the screen. This also cause Dolby Pro-Logic or Pro-Logic II to decode the surround sound incorrectly.

It's not the end of the world - just sounds wrong.

So, does anyone know how to reverse the channels in the AC-3 encoding easily?

Here's a temporary solution for those using a home theater receiver and a DVD player that can decode AC-3 on it's own. Let the DVD player do the decoding and then switch the left and right channels coming out of the player and into the receiver. That should do fix it.

Sorry to rain on everyone's parade.

It's kinda funny that it took this long for anyone to discover it, though

I'm sure Neil would've let us known real quick...

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Here's what I did:

I added a level (for gamma correction, a +.274 mid-level change) and resize (now 640 x 272, for 2.35:1) filter to the joined .avi files. Then, I re-encoded the file using pretty much all of Xvid's default settings except I changed the bitrate to about 1500 kb/s (the original bitrate being 1406 kb/s). Lastly, within the Xvid settings, I changed the pixel aspect ratio to 16:9 NTSC.

Save AVI as...

Am I exporting a lossless quality re-encoding?

So where did this thing come from, any ideas? If it were truly a DVD rip, the DVD-R would be up by now.

Ripped from the digital version delivered to theaters, maybe? I can't even begin to guess what would be involved with that.

hey im currently downloading the xvid (as far as I know this is still all thats avail right?) ok so im on a mac and am wondering how well this xvid will convert to dvd thru TOAST TITANIUM 6, ive done it with other xvids b4, sometimes the audio is all clippy, sometimes its fine, anyone tried it yet?

Probably from inside Lucasfilm, but noone knows and let's keep it that way. Some people have suggested it's from an analog source not DVD. I think I've heard a subtle audio watermark though I'd rather not share it's location.

Has anyone noticed any differences between this rip and the theater or workprint versions. i keep thinking that i am noticing subtle differences from what I've already seen; however, I am watching this while sitting right in front of my 42" screen. I'm probably just hallucinating.

I just got the proggie & will play with it tomorrow.

One of my posts disappeared, too.

Toast uses QuickTime to convert. QuickTime can't play AC3 audio, so it won't work without reencoding the audio. I don't know what effect the QPEL video codec will have on the process, because I haven't tried making a DVD yet.

Just found an AC3 codec for QuickTime at:

http://www.insaneness.com/ac3.html

hi guys, dont know if this will help anyone but i use a programe called winavi convertor. it converts nearly all formats avi,divx,xvid etc.. into dvd vobs ready to be burned using nero etc.. takes about 20-40 mins depending on how many files make up the movie. it also automatically puts in chapters every 3 mins ( though you can change this in the settings)

hope this helps

vader77 see my above post winavi does the whole lot dvd ready to burn in 40 mins

ah right sorry vader dont know how to help then - if never had any probs with it ( just finsihed doing my copy of sith with it) - could be that u may need updated codec's?

it's all over the irc networks
get info in the #falconforum on nsane

How do you merge the two .avi files together using WinAvi ??

dont know about winavi but its easy to do with virtualdub

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/joinavi.html

with winavi you just select both avi's and it does the rest

hi im wondering what would be the best settings to use on the avis to get it perfect for dvd, im using TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress

and is it true about the audio being in the reversed channels?
thanks in advanced...i hope

Looks like the problem with my copy being pixelated is due to my crappy DVD player. It looked fine in the computer. I need to learn how to talk my wife into updating our equipment more often than every 7 years...

My copy is already divided into sixteen chapters (after joining) if I was going to burn it with Roxio (which I didn't). When I burned it with Copy To Dvd, it was already divided into chapters as well, but it wasn't logical, like I'm sure you would like them to be.

Try the winavi the other guy is talking about?

I'm considering using Adobe Encore to create menus and such for this, but I've never been able to get Encore to import avi's that aren't 720x480 resolution. Does anyone know a way around this to change the default video resolution setting to work with?

I had the same problem with the Clone Wars Season II episodes in the DVD I made and had to convert all in Adobe Premiere to friggn 720x480 just to add 15 black pixels to the top and bottom of the video.

Is there a really easy way to swap the left and the right channels on the ac3 file without re-encoding the audio? Maybe some internal flag that can be changed? I know a computer can do this on-the-fly real easily. But it is a pain to have to swap cables at my DVD player.

hey guys MF Quality Control here.

Regarding deleted posts, it's common practice here to prune away off topic, shit posting.


Several off topic posts were removed because they were in regards to SithBolt's avatar which comes from the TLC [The Learning Channel.com]'s website about plastic surgery. I recall a thread about it at the now defunct DPPH a few years ago.


Sometimes shit posts are split into new threads which are then trashed. You may find them in The Trash Compactor, of course. The torrent watch type posts where split off into a new thread called DVDRip Chat thread.


Lastly, we have like over 7000 people sign up for MF. As of right now we have 3000+ registered members. This means that over 4000 users where axed.


The hardcore members here sorta expect this sort of quality control.

hey krisipies, as for your link to the AC3 codec for QT on the the last page, thanks
[edit] oh and does this mean that toast does or doesnt have to convert the audio now?
[double edit] 100

I haven't had enough free time to allow my computer to try burning it. But I did try starting it. Usually trying to burn AC3-encoded video just caused Toast to spit at me, but this time there didn't seem to be any problems. I'll probably try to do the full DVD tonight.

Edit: BTW, Toast encodes according to the time of your video, not the size of your disc, so anything over two hours won't fit on a standard blank DVD-R. You'll have to save it as a disc image, extract the VIDEO_TS folder and then shrink it with something like Popcorn or DVD2One.

Alternatively, you can use FFMpegX to convert to MPEG-2 and then use an authoring program to build your disc. Either way it's a time-consuming pain in the ass, and ultimately what I'll probably end up doing is waiting for someone else to do the work and up it to a torrent site.

It's time consuming but well worth it, I get a lot of artifacting through Toast's encoder. Especially with compressed source material such as this.

am i doing something wrong with ffmpegx? here is what im doing:
i open it, select my file, in this case the cd1.avi and select to convert it to DVD, or .vob, or whatever it says, then i hit convert, the conversion window pops up and then after about one second it says finished but there is no file anywhere, nor could it finish in one second, so what am i doing wrong (im on tiger if it makes a difference)

allright, i merged and converted and burned this thing to dvd using . HOWEVER, when playing in my dvd player on my tv, it has a jerky quality to it, like it's missing a frame every few seconds or something. anyone got a suggestion?

Same deal here. If anyone has come up with a solution to this problem, please share.

Well guys, I am pretty darn good at converting avi and stuff to dvd. However this recent download owns me.

As I watch the movie on dvd, I notice the sound starts to lag and before you know it, it starts to look like an old Bruce Lee movie with the actors lipping the words followed by their voices a second later.

I have used everything mentioned on this messageboard. What is the solution? Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

I have a friend in LA that might be able to fix it since he works with this kind of stuff. I just don't know what to do.

when you followed the steps that hipnotik suggested earlier, did you force an NTSC framerate? these avi's aren't using a 'normal' rate, so i think it's getting screwed up. i forced an NTSC framerate when i converted the files to VOB's, and there is a very faint jerking to everything. you notice it most when there's a big ship going across the screen or some long pan, it's not quite smooth. not sure about a good fix for this because i think most burning programs will try to convert the framerate to something usable or just have issues with the way it is now

I see a lot of you guys are having issues joining the files. I gotta tell you the EASIEST and IMO the best program out there that does just about everything accept cook dinner is SVCD2DVD. Don't let the name fool you. It converts anything and everything. It even has a very simple "Auto Fit" button that automatically makes it fit on a 4.7GB DVDR.

It's not free. The free version only let's you author a 2GB Disk. I gladly paid the 10 Pound (came out to about $18USD) charge to register the program because it does EVERYTHING I throw at it. Forget using 10 different programs to fix this and that. This does it all.

I took the two ROTS DVDR rip disks, dragged them into the app, clicked Autofit, clicked Quick DVD, and it was done. It has Nero buring built it so it will burn your DVD right there. I hate to sound like a commercial but I rarely find a program that is worth the money and this is one of them.

I thought I would make this suggestion and help some of you out.

Oh yeah and the left and right channels are screwed up

Conversion is perfect. Played beautifully on my Panasonic DVD S27S Player. There was a slight pause (similar to the pause experienced when a disk changed layers) between the disks but that was all.

SVCD2DVD also lets you specify the intervals for the "chapters" and a menu creator. I set mine at 5 minute intervals.

I've found Zoom Player works perfectly on this if your not burning this thing and just watching it on your PC. It's super fast to change the aspect ratio and swap the channels. Maybe you could do this with VLC Media Player too but I couldn't figure it out on that player.

Aspect Ratio:

Go into Advanced Options and select Aspect Ratio. Make sure the settings look like this:



Then just right mouse click on the player and select custom, and now you've got 2:35:1 aspect ratio.



Swap Audio Channels:

To swap left & right audio channels right mouse click on the player and select Filter Properties > AC3Filter.



Click on the mixer tab. The matrix has a pulldown where you can enter new settings, in mine I just called it 'RotS'. Then change the associations in the white boxes with the ones and zeros, make sure it looks like the screen cap. In my case I only have 2 speakers.



The Zoom Player with ffdshow also has oodles of Video tweeking controls as well, so you can play with the color, gamma, etc.

To take care of the audio, I extracted it to .wav using VDub. I then opened the file in Audacity, which has the ability to switch the audio channels very simply. Save it back to wav and then throw it into tmpegenc and convert.

I really haven't had the chance to check out if it's choppy or not yet though.