Chewtobacca said:

Nobody's making things harder.  Demuxing in different ways led to different frame counts, and nobody knew for sure how g-force had done it, so it needed to be established. That's all.

I can't say if g-force did it PROPERLY, but you would have to use PGCDemux.

DVDDecrypter doesn't properly read delays (and celltimes IIRC) from NTSC discs, and just using DGIndex without demuxing the PGC's means you wouldn't be able to properly rebuild the DVD afterwards.

I'd say PGCDemux or nothing.

It's funny how the "untouched" GOUT in this example posted by Harmy look so much worse compared to the real deal.

Straight from the '06 DVD:

Hi g-force. I'm just here to ask if you made any more tweaks or improvements to your script, as hinted at in this thread:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Squeezing-more-detail-from-the-GOUT/topic/13494/

I've just downloaded dark jedi's blu v2 sample and (with all due respect to dark jedi and you_too for the efforts) I do personally prefer the results obtained from your scripts, especially in respect of the colours. I have an x264 version of each film on my HD using your v4.00 scripts so I'm just seeing if you had made or still plan to make any more tweaks to your v15.00 scripts before I go ahead and render the OT again?

Thanks g-force for clarification. I'll have a bash at rendering the GOUT this weekend using your final scripts; I'm looking forward to seeing the results. :)

Oldschooljedi said:

Here comes a package of the required plugins.

Make sure you install the fftw3.dll in your system32 folder. This is a subfolder in your 'Windows' folder.

 

Hi, does anyone have a backup of this plugin bundle OSJ uploaded? Obviously, it's not online any more since he posted it to megaupload. Would someone be able to stick it on a file share site for me? I'd really apprecuate it. Or could someone list the exact plugins and versions I need to download?

Thanks

There's one thing I have been wondering, in your script g-force, you're using Levels for setting brightness and contrast and that's also how I always have set the white and black points in Avisynth but isn't it actually better to do it with Tweak and only correct gamma with levels?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Levels affect both luma and chroma whereas Tweak affect luma only?

The Avisynth documentation is confusing, but my understanding is that setting brightness and contrast for YUV video with Levels() is fine, but adjusting gamma using Levels() should ideally be carried out in RGB space.

However, I also think any chroma errors introduced by using Levels () to adjust gamma in YUV are theoretical and not of any practical consequence.

I just thought adjusting brightness or contrast with Tweak() instead of Levels() would be preferable as it leaves the chroma untouched. So in the end, it doesn't really matter which way you choose to set the brightness and contrast, both Tweak() and Levels() give you the same results?