bilditup1 said:

I've made a torrent for the fixed DVD5 over at the spleen if anybody's looking for it; CatBus nuked his upload of the old one some time earlier today.

 So I downloaded the nuked one, and is it just that that transfer had something weird going on, or does the 2.0 in general have a very DVNR look to it?

A lot of the details looked very waxy, like there had been a "look like a painting" filter applied to it. I thought maybe it was just some sort of upscaling done on GOUT footage or something like that, but it didn't look like it was GOUT sourced (and wasn't even footage that would have needed to be de-CGIed).

No. It was nuked because of Hairy's encoding error on the audio. 

I don't know what the DVD5 looks like (I'm gonna have to get it when I get home, as I can't use torrents here) but otherwise I'd say that v2.0 looks anything but DVNred and waxy.

OK, so the fixed AVCHD can be found at the usual place. Here's a new nfo:

AVCHD version:

Technical Specifications:
________________________

FORMAT: AVCHD DISC (ISO)

SIZE: 7.9GB (DVD9)

VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps


AUDIO: (all Dolby Digital) Special thanks to hairy_hen and Belbucus

TRACK 1) 5.1 70mm mix @ 640Kbps 

TRACK 2) 1977 2.0 mix @ 256Kbps 

TRACK 3) 1977 1.0 mix @ 128Kbps

TRACK 4) 2.0 Isolated score @ 192Kbps (music only)

TRACK 5) 2.0 1993 LD Audio Commentary @ 192Kbps (silence filled with 1993 LD 2.0)


Subtitles: (Project Threepio) Special thanks to CatBus

English (en)
Chinese (Simplified) (zh-cn)
Spanish (es)
French (fr)
German (de)

Harmy said:

I don't know what the DVD5 looks like (I'm gonna have to get it when I get home, as I can't use torrents here) but otherwise I'd say that v2.0 looks anything but DVNred and waxy.

Agreed.  There is no way in hell that any part of this looks "processed" on the MKV.  Perhaps it is a product of the extreme loss in quality from HD to DVD5?

Harmy said:

I might lower the gamma slightly on a few shots in the Luke meets Ben scene, but that's as far as I'm going with it.

  Ok that's good,that's the only scene that need to have the gamma a shade lower.

^ I think everything has been updated over at teh.

Harmy said:

OK, so the fixed AVCHD can be found at the usual place. Here's a new nfo:

AVCHD version:

Technical Specifications:
________________________

FORMAT: AVCHD DISC (ISO)

SIZE: 7.9GB (DVD9)

VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps


AUDIO: (all Dolby Digital) Special thanks to hairy_hen and Belbucus

TRACK 1) 5.1 70mm mix @ 640Kbps 

TRACK 2) 1977 2.0 mix @ 256Kbps 

TRACK 3) 1977 1.0 mix @ 128Kbps

TRACK 4) 2.0 Isolated score @ 192Kbps (music only)

TRACK 5) 2.0 1993 LD Audio Commentary @ 192Kbps (silence filled with 1993 LD 2.0)


Subtitles: (Project Threepio) Special thanks to CatBus

English (en)
Chinese (Simplified) (zh-cn)
Spanish (es)
French (fr)
German (de)

  Thank you

Thank you, hairy_hen!

Damn you, SendSpace!  Gotta wait an hour to finish one of these?  Sheesh!

Beginning download of the AVCHD now. (EDIT: Speeds are actually half-decent at ~1.5MBps!)

And the DVD5 does NOT look bad...certainly not waxy or dvnr'd.

Woo! Almost finished downloading the AVCHD.

Asaki said:

So I downloaded the nuked one, and is it just that that transfer had something weird going on, or does the 2.0 in general have a very DVNR look to it?

A lot of the details looked very waxy, like there had been a "look like a painting" filter applied to it. I thought maybe it was just some sort of upscaling done on GOUT footage or something like that, but it didn't look like it was GOUT sourced (and wasn't even footage that would have needed to be de-CGIed).

I wonder if you're seeing a side effect of the black crush that the Blu-ray source suffers from.

negative1 said:

 

just watched your version on a bigscreen tv yesterday,

it matched our's pretty closely also...

later

-1

As good as an endorsement as any!

guiser said:

negative1 said:

just watched your version on a bigscreen tv yesterday,

it matched our's pretty closely also... for some reason

watching it on a tv with different settings was quite

different from viewing it on a monitor....

 

i'm used to watching almost all my videos on monitors,

so it's just a matter of setting your color preferences

to match what you think is right.

 

later

-1

I wonder, do you think this has something to do with the differences in output range between TVs and computers?

that, and the colorspace..

but mostly the gamma settings are different for 

those devices..

also, once harmy tweaks the scene (or scenes),

it will match even more closely with the 

reference shots..

later

-1

Doesn't seem to be there yet.

Erikstormtrooper said:

I wonder if you're seeing a side effect of the black crush that the Blu-ray source suffers from.

I don't know why it would cause those kinds of side effects, but yeah, I noticed that color correcting the black crush gives it a weird sort of feel.

bilditup1 said:

Beginning download of the AVCHD now. (EDIT: Speeds are actually half-decent at ~1.5MBps!)

And the DVD5 does NOT look bad...certainly not waxy or dvnr'd.

I don't know, the one I watched did.

I'd take screenshots, but I deleted it already =) I'll download the fixed one and check to see if it looks the same.                      

Yep, the fixed one looks the same.

Here's a really good example: http://i47.tinypic.com/9tzdy0.png

This isn't my computer, though, so maybe it's just a codec issue or something.

New audio tracks downloaded and muxed without a hitch!  Thanks again to hairy_hen, bilditup1, and of course, Harmy!