I think the writing was on the wall when I saw the companies producing the movie. This was his chance for a comeback but it hasn't worked out. After "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent" he looked set for a big career but the failure of "Doomsday" and "Centurion" reduced him to directing TV (albeit including two of the best episodes of "Game of Thrones). I'm a bit disappointed for Neil Marshall. It looks like it was done by a 5-year-old!Īn interesting article about the film's lack of success. This film is a cheap cash-in, nothing more. Marshall was a curious choice as director considering he hadn't directed anything for cinema in 10 years. I think most people would attribute the success of GoT to author George RR Martin and series creators Benioff and Weiss, not Neil Marshall. one cannot help but feel there is a blatant hypocrisy going on with these critics. Yet the guy who directed that got praise and acclaim for what he directed on that show yet bringing fundamentally the same tone to this film and it is a criticism. it certainly was the episodes i saw of it! yet isn t that basically Game of Thrones. I quickly verified the segment end/start matches and then double checked against the web search.I keep seeing "relentless, grim, horrible, gory, sadistic, cynical, foul mouth" getting thrown around at this Hellboy film. After walking through 12 chunks, I hit a point where there was only 1 segment list left. During the course of the chunk identification, I came across 3 where I had no choice, the only next chunk was the same one. It took me about 35mins to get through step 5, much shorter than watching the whole movie. A web search can also help verify which one is the right one, as I did for Mockingjay Part 1. Once we identify the correct chunk order – we can go back to MakeMKV and rip the correct stream.Hint: as you identify chunks, record the duration – this helps figure out where on the DVD playback you need to review to find the scene break. It is fewer choices than you might imagine. Then figure out what the next chunk is.īy building an incrementally specific grep, I can figure out the next chunk options. Start at the first chunk, verify it is the start, watch the end to determine the scene break. Now we just need to play a copy of the movie, I have the DVD as well so VLC can play that back for me.Only 18 to sort into order correctlyĭ) The MakeMVK backup has all of the chunks in backup//BDMV/STREAM/ For Mockingjay Part 1 there are 550 segment lists on the disk, 519 of these are the length of the movie.Ī) All the movie length lists start with the same segment: 519Ĭ) There are only 20 chunks in each segment list, and we already know 2 of them. It turns out that “,26,” is unique enough to grab all of the segment lists. Isolate the segment lists from /tmp/xx.txt. Makemkvcon - r info dev : / dev / sr0 > / tmp / xx. Use MakeMKVcon to dump info to a text file Recently I came across a way to use MakeMKV to do the full process, again thanks to a MakeMKV forum post. I struck out here as I didn’t have a Windows machine with the right software combination, and it seems I wasn’t able to get Ubuntu to natively play back a bluray either. The MakeMKV forum has a post about using PowerDVD and Process monitor to figure this out. It’s much better to figure it out for the disk you have. It turns out that there are multiple versions of the movie: rental, US release, Canadian release, etc. If you got digging around, you can find advice on which of the many to pick from the list. Initially I naively picked the 1st and used that one, but upon watching the movie it was obvious there was 1 scene out of place, and thus two weird jump cuts to the flow of the movie. It seems that all but one of these titles has things shuffled in the wrong order. Starting with Catching Fire the bluray shows you 100’s of feature length titles – all the same duration, but with different segment maps. When I got to the Hunger Games series, things got a bit more interesting. With MakeMKV that selection is more manual, but picking 1 title from a list of 10 isn’t all that hard. Handbrake will automatically select the longest video, and that’s almost always the actual movie itself. MakeMKV is how I rip bluray disks, then feed the resulting rip into Handbrake to compress it down. Handbrake is great for dealing with DVDs. This gives me a Netflix like viewing experience, but for my own personal movie collection. I still have a large collection, but have been slowly converting it to be hosted on my Plex server. Before streaming was the primary way to get new content, I collected a lot of movies on DVD / bluray.
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