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Posted by X69 on 10-01-2005 02:13 PM:

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ

1 NO REQUESTING MOVIES OR SAMPLES (THIS INCLUDES REQUESTS FOR OTHER GROUPS TO RELEASE THIS MOVIE!)

2 DO NOT DISCUSS WHERE TO DOWNLOAD MOVIES OR SAMPLES

3 NO FLAMING

4 NO "SPOILERS"

5 NO SCENE-RELATED DISCUSSION/RUMORS (ESPECIALLY REGARDING BUSTS)

6 COMMENT ON THIS RELEASE ONLY (AND ONLY IF YOU'VE SEEN AT LEAST THE SAMPLE). THIS IS THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE THREAD!

7 NO "NOOB" QUESTIONS SUCH AS "HOW DO I WATCH THIS?" ASK IN THE APPROPRIATE PART OF THE FORUM

8 NO DISCUSSING TRADING/SELLING. IF YOU SELL COPIES, GO AWAY YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE

*** PEOPLE IGNORING THE RULES WILL BE BANNED ***

Posted by Redemption198 on 10-01-2005 02:16 PM:

Looks really nice to me, and an unexpected surprise too, just wish i never go the DVD Screener now, but ah well.

Video is spot on and its a great idea that Replica had to keep the main movie untouced.

Audio is spot on too, nice 5.1 track.

Also nice to see a group remove all the tack and crap on a DVD too, nearly always have to do it myself rather than just burn the .img.

9/9/?

Posted by NJDevil on 10-01-2005 04:36 PM:

I know I'm supposed to be rating the release, but I just want to throw my .02 in: Personally I'd rather that the movie was re-encoded and the director's commentary included. No embellishment, just an opinion.

Posted by Beelzebud on 10-01-2005 06:26 PM:

I'm with you NJDevil. I would have rather have seen a re-encoded movie with the Director's Commentary.

George Romero is awesome, and I love his commentary tracks. I guess I'll be buying this one afterall.

Posted by NorrieRFC on 10-01-2005 07:13 PM:

Excellent

Dont care about the extras. If i really wanted them badly id just buy it

9/9/8

Loved this film

Posted by wrist on 10-01-2005 07:54 PM:

Nice release but paused for split second after open credits on my player.

Pic 9
Sound 9
Flik 8 Better than expected.

Posted by TwinZ on 10-01-2005 09:56 PM:

the pause in this release is the layer break and apparently there are 3 of them in it. just remove with ifoedit or pgcedit it is easy

Posted by TerminatR on 10-02-2005 07:56 PM:

will a patch be released to fix this layer break issue? or is it even noticable - should I even care?

Posted by stuart2773 on 10-03-2005 12:13 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by TwinZ
the pause in this release is the layer break and apparently there are 3 of them in it. just remove with ifoedit or pgcedit it is easy

Hi,

Im new to this can you tell me how to do this i have ifoedit

thanks

Posted by Carlitosbaby on 10-03-2005 04:33 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by wrist
Nice release but paused for split second after open credits on my player.

Pic 9
Sound 9
Flik 8 Better than expected.

I quess you need a new dvd player as the original would do the same. So isnt Replicas fault its your dvd manufacturer for making a cheap machine. If you having this problem most dvd9 originals will do the same.

Posted by TwinZ on 10-03-2005 11:01 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Carlitosbaby
I quess you need a new dvd player as the original would do the same. So isnt Replicas fault its your dvd manufacturer for making a cheap machine. If you having this problem most dvd9 originals will do the same.

this has been a problem on a few players not just cheap ones, as i said before when they reencoded the first cell somehow there is a layerbreak there. if you take out the layer breaks it will be a flowing release. i got told there was 3 or 4 layer breaks in this one, gf burnt it tho before i could sort it

Posted by omega59 on 10-03-2005 04:25 PM:

ok so how does one fix this issue now that it is identified?

i haven't watched it yet so not sure if my player has problems.. i'm sure it will play fine for me tho cus my player is pretty awsome!

thx for the heads up tho on this issue.

Posted by TwinZ on 10-03-2005 05:11 PM:

im at work at the minute and i am not 100% sure but if you open up the movies main ifo in ifoedit and scroll down the chapter points you will see the word layer break, double click on this and then change the 2 to a 8. apologies if this isnt correct, i will sort it out when i get home from work in a couple of hours if it is incorrect.

Posted by wrist on 10-03-2005 08:37 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Carlitosbaby
I quess you need a new dvd player as the original would do the same. So isnt Replicas fault its your dvd manufacturer for making a cheap machine. If you having this problem most dvd9 originals will do the same.

I was simply commenting on this release. I watched the release on my Panasonic 'not so cheap' DD/DTS surround system which plays anything you stick in it usually without any problem. It was just noticeable - thats why I commented about it on the forum.

Posted by omega59 on 10-04-2005 05:13 PM:

Twinz

thanks.. i will wait for your response

Posted by TwinZ on 10-04-2005 05:24 PM:

right get pgcedit as it is easier, you will need to mount and rip or extract with isobuster first to get your video_ts folder. open pgc edit and select the video_ts folder and then pgcedit will scan it. let it run through then after it is finished find the pgc with the longest run time (which is the movie) then double click it. you will see subtitle colours on the bottom left of the new box which comes up (you can change sub colours here if you like, i prefer yellow with black outline) then to the right of that you will see chapter points etc. there should be a colomn for layer breaks with check boxes. you can uncheck the first as you need that to stay as it is (i forget why though) then go through and uncheck the other boxes that are checked (should be 4) then press ok and go to file and save dvd. you can either create another image with imgtool classic or burn with imgtool burn.

Posted by Jassll on 10-05-2005 03:09 AM:

Video - 9/10 - not All untouched but looks great
Audio - 9/10 - sounds great
Movie - 4/10 - not very good at all, for 2 hours you just watch people get ate and slaughtered. Has the same plot as Dawn of the Dead, but that movie actually was entertaining. I shouldn't of wasted my time.

Good release Replica. Good idea to save the untouched video I'm not a big fan of re-encoded films if it can be prevented, extras aren't a big issue for me. Menu is edited for Special Features button you can't choose, a good thing. Overall good release, bad movie.

Posted by bigbug41 on 10-05-2005 07:35 AM:

AM i going crazy

Please tell me that im going crazy but half way through the movie is any one elses copy turning to carlitos way or some other al pacino flick

EDIT *** IM checking my original and its perfect STRANGEsT THNG THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME

Posted by SVCD S.W.A.T. on 10-05-2005 04:46 PM:

How did they edit the menus? with what software can u do that?

Posted by TwinZ on 10-05-2005 04:54 PM:

a program called menuedit.

Posted by gibber9583 on 10-06-2005 05:06 AM:

For those complaining about layer change pause... good dvd players have buffers that eliminate this pause. For example..i have a denon 2910 and this has a buffer that reads ahead and eliminates this pause.....

Also, VQ should be rippers #1 priority, so thank you replica for providing an untouched video

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Posted by omega59 on 10-06-2005 02:31 PM:

i believe they used dvd-rebuilder to create this release.. o'well

i just applied those settings to remove the breaks.. still a bit scared to burn it as of yet.. anyone else try the fix, what were the results?

Posted by ntscuser on 10-08-2005 01:03 AM:

Thank goodness it was a layer break at 2mins15 as I thought I'd made an error during extraction. Though exactly how a single-layer disc can have any layer-break let alone several is a mystery to me? That probably explains the slight ghosting about half way through the movie as well. The trouble with the first break is that my surround amp cut out momentarilly which is much more annoying.

Aside from the that the transfer was good. I can't believe a single channel commentayr would have taken-up that much more space. I'm not into zombie flicks as a rule but this one compares with the best of mainstream movies. Dialogue was muffled at neighbour-friendly sound levels and the subtitles almost filled what little there was of the letterboxed picture area but those are problems of the original, not of the transfer.

7/7/7

Posted by ntscuser on 10-08-2005 04:45 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by TwinZ
right get pgcedit as it is easier, you will need to mount and rip or extract with isobuster first to get your video_ts folder. open pgc edit and select the video_ts folder and then pgcedit will scan it. let it run through then after it is finished find the pgc with the longest run time (which is the movie) then double click it. you will see subtitle colours on the bottom left of the new box which comes up (you can change sub colours here if you like, i prefer yellow with black outline) then to the right of that you will see chapter points etc. there should be a colomn for layer breaks with check boxes. you can uncheck the first as you need that to stay as it is (i forget why though) then go through and uncheck the other boxes that are checked (should be 4) then press ok and go to file and save dvd. you can either create another image with imgtool classic or burn with imgtool burn.

Followed those instructions to the letter. It worked perfect first time. On top of that by accepting the recommendations when the file was first scanned, PGCEdit removed all the dead links from the menu screens. It was so quick and easy that at first I thought I must have made a mistake. The layer breaks are now gone, the sound dropouts are gone and the dead links are gone. Incidentally I preferred soft gray subtitles for this particular movie as the white ones are far too bright.

IFOedit didn't work, DVD Shrink didn't work so don't waste your time with those.

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