[REL] Le grand chemin (1987)

[ghost]

I noticed some digital breakup / glitches for a few seconds at approximate timecodes 56:42, 1:06:31, and 1:37:14.

Ahhh f***!!! I didn't noticed it until now.

[DreamScape]

(Ah well, if we want perfection then we will need another Blu-ray rip from a different disc. 19Gb anyone?)

The BD image is 33.29 GiB, too large for me to download right now.

[Night457]

Ahhh f***!!!

Wow, I have never encountered such language from you, ghost!

There are lots of things I do NOT notice, but this one was inevitable for me since I was watching the whole movie. I used to see that way too often on DVD.

It could also be something that a higher grade blu-ray player/ripper would avoid, even if there are disc errors. I just don't know. But I would have returned that disk to the store!

The BD image is 33.29 GiB, too large for me to download right now.

I could download it, but it would probably take me over 24 hours of processing time to compress it down to a smaller size!! (And ghost's computer would likely do it in an hour.)

Where did you find the image? Was it Usenet, a private tracker, or someplace free?

[DreamScape]

The BD image is 33.29 GiB, too large for me to download right now.

I could download it, but it would probably take me over 24 hours of processing time to compress it down to a smaller size!! (And ghost's computer would likely do it in an hour.)

Where did you find the image? Was it Usenet, a private tracker, or someplace free?

Yep, a private tracker. There's also no guarantee that the image itself isn't bad. It could all be the same source.

[Night457]

Right, it could be bad encoding of the rip itself, OR it could be a defective source disk. If the largest size image available is also glitchy, then only a new rip from a different and non-defective disk would fix it. A good encode will not fix a bad disk. This is exactly the kind of image error I have seen dozens of times on physical disks.

And if by chance the same Chinese group was also the originator of the full image, they likely spent quite a bit in shipping costs to import it from France to ... mainland China, perhaps? Even if they noticed the glitches they may reasonably have decided it was not worth the cost to ship it back! That is the danger of buying those expensive shiny plastic disks from another country thousands of miles away.

[DreamScape]

Isn’t the 14GB encode from some Chinese tracker/group? I would imagine the encoding was simply done wrong.

Well, here is the strange thing.

Le.grand.chemin.1987.1080p.BluRay.DD2.0.x264-MOMOHD.mkv appears to be identical to Le.grand.chemin.1987.1080p.BluRay.DD2.0.x264-PTer.mkv. In fact, if you look at the media info of the MOMOHD video you can see PTer in the movie title. Someone just renamed the 14 GB file to steal credit and uploaded it to Uloz torrent.

[pillowbaker]

Hmmm. Does anyone suppose the 14gb version of this movie is worth downloading? I wouldn't mind the size for a movie like this.

But the 720p version ghost uploaded on page 3 looks really good to me. Is the blueray rip much better than ghost's file? And has anyone tried the 1080i file that deadman shared on page 4?

[Night457]

I wouldn't mind the size for a movie like this.
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Is the blueray rip much better than ghost's file?
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And has anyone tried the 1080i file that deadman shared

1) It is annoying to have video glitches on such a large file. But it is still well-seeded. I have uploaded 55GB myself. [EDIT: I have now deleted this glitchy file.]
2) I did not have any issues with ghost's 720p file. Whether someone needs a 1080p upgrade depends on how often they expect to watch the movie.
3) It seems to be impossible to resync subtitles to deadman's file because of various issues. (Including remnants of commercial interruptions.) It also has a watermark. If you don't mind watermarks and do understand French, then it is a good possibility.
4) There is also the watermark-free file that you posted here. At the time I thought that it would have the same problems with resyncing subtitles that deadman's file has, but I no longer remember if I actually TRIED to do it. Maybe now with my glitch issue I OUGHT to do so! [EDIT: my subtitle resync for this one seems to be a success, but I want to check out the results in full first. EDIT EDIT: The subtitles are well-synced but I am still making small corrections before posting them.]

[Night457]

In fact, if you look at the media info of the MOMOHD video you can see PTer in the movie title. Someone just renamed the 14 GB file to steal credit and uploaded it to Uloz.

??? On ULOZ, really? I can not find this 14Gb file at Uloz now and did not see it there before; I only saw it in torrents. However, I do vaguely remember seeing two identical 14Gb torrents on one of the torrent sites I search, so your point still stands.

[goku33]

My 8GB Rip doesnt seem to have glitches (or I am becoming blind lol)