I'm not particularly well versed in encoding, but does 2 pass really offer substantial benefit versus throwing more bits at it in a single pass?

Is the objective to get the best compression (least size) or can we allow the size to increase to reduce the encoding time whilst still maintaining quality?  We do have 25GB to play with for a BD-R and the mkv won't fit on a DVD-9 anyway.

Just saying perhaps the mkv could be larger to get it out there quicker and the BD using better quality compression.

<p>What about encoding a reel at a time and then combining them? That way, if there's an error, one would only have to re-encode that particular reel.</p>
<p>Is that feasible?</p>

Harmy,

Not sure about how to replace the single frame, but as to encoding each reel seperately, once encoded you can import them all into tsMuxer. Add the first reel, the hit the 'append' button to sequentially add the other reels. From there save your file to whatever file format you choose. This will give you one seemless master file that won't have to be reencoded. From there you can just demux the video or add it as is into whatever program you use to merge files to a .mkv file

Harmy said:

How do I add a BMP picture into the script to replace that one frame?

video = AviSource("c:\video.avi")

fix = ImageSource("c:\fix.bmp", end=1)

video.trim(StartFrame, FrameBeforeGlitch) + fix + video.trim(FrameAfterGlitch, EndFrame)

return last

"StartFrame", "FrameBeforeGlitch", "FrameAfterGlitch" and "EndFrame" have to be replaced with the according frame numbers, of course. This of course has to be incorporated into your existing script, so I don't know what kind of frame rate settings or other stuff you have in there.

Hi there! I never wrote in this forum before but I've been following this project closely since version 1.0.

I just wanted to drop by and thank Harmy for all the effort, time and love he's putting on this. This is an amazing piece of work and is great that he's bringing back the magic and flavour of these movies we all love.

So thank you Harmy and thanks to all the people who's helping him in any way to make this project even better!

I would use eac3to for putting the files together not tsMuxer, i don't trust tsMuxer for joining files at all.

edit: Although it's not audio your joining so maybe it would be ok but i still like eac3to

I've been away for a while, and it was nice to see Mverta posting here. I definitely recommend taking him up on any offer to help, as he's been the other largely unsung hero with amazing efforts at restoring Star Wars.  

As I understand it, there's a slightly different restoration philosophy between Mverta and Harmy, but both of them are absolute heroes.  I wish I could contribute more than gushing praise to either of their projects.

Harmy said:

So anyway, before I start the encoding, can anyone tell me with certainty that if I encode each reel separately, I will then be able to join them (by whatever means) without recoding the video and keep the Blu-Ray compatibility and not lose any frames?

I'm not really sure but some time ago, I discovered several "timestamp problems" after merging two movie files. I don't even remember the format and doubt that both processes are comparable but since you're still waiting for hairy_hen's audio track and found out that the encoding error wasn't random I suggest not to take any further risks.

Harmy,

I saw the lightsabers you fixed and wanted to say: Wow, I'm your fan!!!

The default framerate of Imagesource() is 24fps.  You have to set it to match the rest of the clips.

Yes; Avisynth calls the first frame 0 rather than 1.