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The Goonies (25th Anniversary Collector's Edition) (1985)


Blu-Ray (HD/VC-1)
http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=1543297
http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=16421#1
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Goonies-Blu-ray/993/
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/44925/goonies-the/



Original Disc Specifications

Video codec: VC-1
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
IMDB Reported aspect ratio: 2.20 1 (70 mm prints) 2.35 : 1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
French: Dolby Digital 2.0
Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono
(Unreported)
Japanese: Dolby 2.0
English: Dolby 2.0 Commentary

Original Video Size: 19.18GB, 22,488Kb/s 1:53:55 (6825s)


MERGEKIT.A (Recoded to BD25 size)
Movie Video Recode Specifications:
Codec: x264 (2Pass)
Container: MKV
Size: 1:1 with Original (*Smoothing Recode*) 1920x800 (MeGUI/DXVA-HD)
Audio:
DTS 5.1 (from TrueHD English Original)
Dolby 5.1 (English Original)
TrueHD 5.1 (English Original)
Dolby 2.0 (English Original)
Dolby 2.0 (English Original) Commentary
by Director Richard Donner and Select Cast Members
Dolby 2.0 (French Original)
Dolby 1.0 (Spanish Original)
Dolby 2.0 (Japanese Original)

Chapters and English SRT subtitles 

Also extras (SD/Mpeg2/NTSC) from The Goonies 25th Annv. Collectors Ed. DVD
(see http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=1583#2 for complete listing),
*No Recode*   

BURN TESTED W/ both BD-RE and BD25 (24.48GB)
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MERGEKIT.B
All Audio Streams from Original Disc, plus generated, including:
DTS 5.1 (from TrueHD English Original)
TrueHD 5.1 (English Original)
TrueHD-CORE 5.1 (English Original)
Dolby 5.1 (English Original)
Dolby 2.0 (English Original)
Dolby 2.0 (English Original) Commentary
by Director Richard Donner and Select Cast Members
Dolby 2.0 (French Original)
Dolby 1.0 (Spanish Original)
Dolby 2.0 (Japanese Original)

Chapters, PGS Subtitles, and English SRT Subtitles
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MERGEKIT.C
Also extras (SD/Mpeg2/NTSC) from The Goonies 25th Annv. Collectors Ed. DVD
(see http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=1583#2 for complete listing),
*No Recode*   
  
All as included in MergeKit.A

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MERGEKIT.D
BD50 DISC - COMPLETE ORIGINAL (~47.9GB)
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NOTE: MediaInfo listing included with most MergeKits



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Mergekit is all the 'extras' on a BR disc that, unless one downloads the
entire disc image, are the bits usually not included in the mkv or remux,
for whatever reasoning (or lack thereof) of the original poster.

You know, things like the chapters, commentaries, subtitles, full HD audio
streams (like DTS-HD/MA or Dolby TrueHD), or perhaps you have Dolby decoding
but not DTS, or the other way around.

So MergeKit gets you all those 'extras', again without spending the time and 
effort (and download blocks or caps) dealing with the full rip, simply to get
that one small part you feel is missing!

Integral to adding these bits to an mkv is mkvmerge, part of the MKVToolnix
package.  

Other s/w to process things like PGS subtitles (SRT conversion) can be easily
found on various websites.

Also, a Mediainfo text file, listing all the original BR parts, is included
with each MergeKit part.

MergeKits are divided into several parts, an example is below:

MOVIE.TITLE.MERGEKIT.A x264 Movie

MOVIE.TITLE.MERGEKIT.B All Audio Plus

MOVIE.TITLE.MERGEKIT.C All Extras

MOVIE.TITLE.MERGEKIT.D Complete BD25/50