Just ripped the vob with the menus and checked it out - aaaaawesome. You've worked hard on this and it absolutely shows.

Also - love the easter egg, Zion.

Grabit shows a FULL upload, here it comes baby!

Looks good. Man, I can't imagine typing out all those credits....

Thanks so much, your time was appreciated. Im getting around 900 - 1000 kb\s. Newgroups are unreal, I think im getting too used to bittorrent.

Someone make some pars : /

Y'know, it's a shame -- even with the brighter picture, the clearer and properly oriented audio, the fully restored credits and the excellent menus, I still think Grievous is totally fucking gay.

Uploading a 20% redundancy set now using my shitty 256kbps upstream.

I think that's more than enough

Zion,
You have done some EXCELLENT work here. What can I say.. I really am blown away with what I am watching as I am typing this. I appreciate your time and creativity with this rework. You are seriously talented.

MUCH RESPECT, FROM ONE SW GEEK TO ANOTHER!

Shadrach

I'm back for a day. Looks like everything uploaded ok on my end. Were people able to DL the whole thing?

(I'm new to newsgroups too so bare with me)

Got it, and it rocks on my widescreen HDTV!!!! Let me say one big fucking thank you man, you deserve times 1000!

I am watching it on my Denon DVD2200/Hitach Director's Series 65" HDTV.

It looks incredible. Flat out gorgeous.

Thanks Again!

Already been posted.

I made a simple guide in the other thread in case anyone has some corrupted rars.

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=132164&highlight=#132164

I recommend signing up for Easynews, their usenet service is great.

Giganews has a free three day trial:

https://secure.giganews.com/signup/

Yeah, but that trial only allows for 1GB transfer.

There's at least one torrent up that I'm aware of. It'll probably spread to other sites through the weekend.

Easynews.com is all you need. 20 Gigs for $9.98.

ATTENTION LEECHERS ATTENTION LEECHERS:siren:

If I wanted to tell you exactly where the torrents are, don't you think I'd have done so already?

Get off of your dead fucking cyberasses and search for them. Sending me PM's is a waste of your time.

Thank you for that message. I mean it's right there on a.b.sw so I don't know why it's so effing hard for these losers to find it.

Some people prefer torrents, others don't have newsgroup access.

Who can't afford NINE DOLLARS AND NINTEY EIGHT CENTS at Easynews to get FULL Binary access 20 GIGS of download?? torrents are slow and rely on other people. Usenet is FASSSST, quick and easy. I think it's the fear of the unknown. I didn't know how to "use" the usenet until January of this year. I read up on it and now I use it everyday.

My newsgroup server's retention is less than two days. On the plus side I get speeds of nearly a 900kbps

Yes, you are ignorant. Most ISP news servers have less than two days retention on the Binary groups. Go read up on yours, I doubt it's more than a week retention. You also get a web interface (if you wish to use it) at Easynews where you get over 45 days retention on binary groups. NNTP access (traditional news. access) gets you about 30 days and more.

You also get a free usenet search engine. Before you ask a dumb questions like "What does a pay service have on a normal ISP server?" do some research so you don't look like a complete ass.

Lighten the fuck up. All the retention in the world doesn't mean much if you can only download 20 gigs a month. That might sound like a lot at first, but in fact it amounts to downloading something the size of this Zion disk less than 5 times in a month. If you get yourself hooked on a group like a.b.dvdr, those 20 GB are going to go by pretty fast.

If you check Usenet once a day -- say, on your way out the door to work/school/neighborhood circle jerk/whatever -- a standard ISP's news server will do fine. Assuming it provides access to all the groups you want, anyway.

Newzbin goes back nearly 90 days.

http://www.newzbin.com/browse/cat/p/movies/?page=270

If you use EasyNews' NNTP service rather than their web service you get 30GB per month. And, if you take their survery every week (takes all of two seconds to do) you get an extra 2GB. All for only $ 9.98/mo (USD).

20 gigs wouldn't last you a week? don't get out much huh? LOL. I get about 26 with bonus gigs and using NNTP. For those us who don't have ISP's that offer 30 day retention on the binary groups, easynews is perfect. BTW, what ISP do you have that offers 30 days on binaries?

Is it your practice to sit in front of your computer and watch it as it downloads stuff?

If I started a download of 4.4 GB (standard DVD-R size) before going to bed, it would be finished long before I woke up. If I did that every night, I'd be through even your 26 GB before a week had gone by. If I started another download in the morning on my way out the door, I'd be d/ling upwards of 8 GB a day. I'd NEED 30-day retention to catch up on everything I missed while I was waiting to get my monthly allowance back.

If you're happy with Easynews, good for you, but quit acting like you discovered the Unified Field Theory.

For those who missed it or got corrupted rars, I'll be re-uploading this to a.b.dvdr and a.b.starwars this weekend.

Zion I must say your work is incredible. The menus are fantastic...
The encode remarkable...Great job. I had not problems DL.

Thanks Much for your work!

BTW- I watched every credit...I also saw your name hidden in the role up...way to go!
Cheers!

hey guys, i was extracting the rar file and when it got to rar80 it told me this
! CRC failed in VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB. The file is corrupt
! CRC failed in VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB. The file is corrupt
! CRC failed in VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB. The file is corrupt
! CRC failed in VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1.VOB. The file is corrupt

how do i fix this or do i have to download the whole thing again?

any help with this would be great.

SAME for me. Incredible..Even on my beamer screen it's superb. And no trouble downloading via Usenext..No pars etc.... Thanx Zion!

Jimmer

Sorry I forgot to mention the dvd menus and the credits job....That makes downloading it really worthwile! You're my hero...

Nevermind....i think i got it. I did the quickpar thing...thanks zion and faid. i took me a week just to figure it out but once i did...it was a piece of cake. now to actually watch it. i can't wait.

whats the easter egg they were talking about?

Thank you. My ISP's shitty and since I missed it the first time I missed out altogether, and no matter how much I exercised me "cyberass" I have yet to find the torrent so I'll have my eyes glued to the monitor this weekend and make sure I get it all when I can. Thanks again.

Sounds like a codec issue, try burning it and watching it on a DVD player.

Try watching the film in VLC player and see if it works.

If you were able to extract it in Winrar without any errors then you shouldn't need pars. I posted a simple guide for Pars in the other thread.

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/v ... ht=#132164

I'd like to see comparison shots between Zion's and the internal rip

Very well.





Re-up has commenced...

Re-downloaded fixed part001.

Now another problem:
<< Attached file: sw3.zion.part009.rar (49,558,400 bytes) >>
Warning: Actual file size (49558400) does not match declared file size (50000000). The file may be corrupt.


Finally up to date with all the parts so far today.

Except 40 give me an error too:
<< Attached file: sw3.zion.part040.rar (50,000,019 bytes) >>
Warning: Actual file size (50000019) does not match declared file size (50000000). The file may be corrupt.


FYI error:

<< Attached file: sw3.zion-1.part059.rar (49,999,989 bytes) >>
Warning: Actual file size (49999989) does not match declared file size (50000000). The file may be corrupt.

And parts 041, 042, and 043 are all incomplete, even though you are now uploading part 060. Do those show complete on your end?

No, all is fine on my end. Use the pars when they get uploaded (after part 89).

Looks like it all uploaded ok. Hope you guys that had corrupt parts can fix them now.

Here are some more screenshots that were posted on another board, comparing another DVDr to mine. My version is on the right:

Got it! I had corrupted files, but he pars worked beautifully!

Love the entire DVD...great menus...Love the THX joke.

Awesome release! Thanks...

Can't wait for the XO.

Finally getting to the download. Thanks for everything, Zion.

Bring on the XO!!!

I resized Zion's rip to match the dimensions of the original internal file in screencaps, then put together this image to show a direct comparison from a couple moments in the opening space battle. I think it really shows off the color differences and increased clarity.

Internal on the left, Zion on the right:

Cool. Though the first three frames are kind of irrelevant, since I used the opening logos from the AOTC DVD and generated my own crawl. The actual footage from the rip doesn't kick in until the pan down from the crawl. You shouldn't be able to tell, but during the pan there is a transition fade between the star field plate I used (still image for crawl background) and the video.

I'd like to thank whoever made the DVD covers included with the rip. I also think it's pretty easy to change the front (which I'm not a huge fan of), here's what I came up with:



It's pretty nifty, whichever cover is picked.

Thank you very much Zion for all your hard work!

What method/program did you use to switch the AUDIO channels? I was trying to do the same but couldn't find a solution yet.

tks in advance.

I used Adobe Audition to swap the channels and tone down the distortion. It's really an awesome program if you've never used it. It used to be called Cool Edit Pro.

Didn't Cool Edit used to be shareware? I'm sure I had that on the 386...?