I don't know - LD is not a great source anyway (IMHO, not high resolution enough) so I don't know how many people would be clamoring for an electron scan of all of the Star Wars LDs... I could be wrong, but that's just my guess.

Hahahaha!  :)

I don't mean LD is a bad source, it's just that at a certain point, the material exceeds its usefulness in time or expense - just like it would be foolish to have a 4k scan of an 8mm home movie...

Oh, I reserve my judgement then. :)

Ah. I see. Here I was, thinking that you and Poita (plus some others) were on the trail to make an LD source come out 2k, and you crushed my dreams. lol

CLV smear shouldn't matter much to Star Wars projects, as the Definitive Edition is CAV (which'd be all around better anyway, what with every frame of the movie being present).

nightstalkerpoet said:

Nice! Looks possible, but time consuming. And would take programming a new analysis program.

Considering the lengths people are willing to go to for star wars preservations, I wouldn't be surprised to see an "electron microscope laserdisc scanning and analysis to retrieve pure video signal" project pop up. (Fingers crossed).

But yes, a 3 source cross reference scan is more probable by far.

Either would be an awesome source for Harmy.

 

This was actually discussed by the guys back in the X0 project days, but the data is RF modulated analogue (kinda like FM radio), so not only would you have to get an SEM scan, you would have to write a program to extract the data and reconstruct the video signal. Not feasible on too many counts. If you were clever you could pickup the RF signal from the player before it is processed and digitise *that* to achieve nearly the same result, but would still have to write the reconstruction software, effectively doing in software what the player does in outdated software.

A more realistic goal is to pickup the composite video signal before it is amplified and before it goes through the overlay chips etc. and build a better video amp circuit with current components, bypassing the outdated and noisy LD circuitry. That is relatively simple to do and should result in a much cleaner signal. But anyway, we are derailing this thread again!

jimjimmyjones85 said:

Please excuse my ignorance. But I have been trying to Mux the Sources feature to burn it to a BluRay and share it with  my friends but continue to get this error:

 

Matroska parse error: Invalid H264 NAL unit size NAL unit truncated"

 

Any insight?

 

Thank you.

Come on guys ? Anyone ?

SpiffyGriff said:

Hello, I'm Griff, a filmmaker. 

Hello, I'm THE Griff.

jimjimmyjones85 said:

jimjimmyjones85 said:

Please excuse my ignorance. But I have been trying to Mux the Sources feature to burn it to a BluRay and share it with  my friends but continue to get this error:

 

Matroska parse error: Invalid H264 NAL unit size NAL unit truncated"

 

Any insight?

 

Thank you.

Come on guys ? Anyone ?

Sounds like it could be the header compression issue. Is there an option in your mux'er to select "no header compression"? Give that a go.

Haven't done that myself, so I can't be more help. But I've seen it mentioned before. Try searching this thread for "header compression" for more info.

tripswitch said:

jimjimmyjones85 said:

jimjimmyjones85 said:

Please excuse my ignorance. But I have been trying to Mux the Sources feature to burn it to a BluRay and share it with  my friends but continue to get this error:

 

Matroska parse error: Invalid H264 NAL unit size NAL unit truncated"

 

Any insight?

 

Thank you.

Come on guys ? Anyone ?

Sounds like it could be the header compression issue. Is there an option in your mux'er to select "no header compression"? Give that a go.

Haven't done that myself, so I can't be more help. But I've seen it mentioned before. Try searching this thread for "header compression" for more info.

No there are no options for that. I DL'd the file twice to make sure it wasn't corrupt.

Minor side track I guess, but I don't think it's too derailed yet..

I'm still impressed by the SD sources, be they LD, LD-->GOUT DVD, and whether they are pieces that're rotoscoped, or entire scenes... The featurette/documentary Harmy did showed some amazing results of taking older (SD) footage, and cleaning it up quite well. Some of the "Project Blu" stuff is also nothing short of incredible.

Can't wait to see the 2.5 in all its glory, with whatever other minor tweaks have been done, as well as progress on the other two movies from the blu ray source. Will be exciting times ahead!!

(Similar to the above post)

This guy made a pile of mods to a Pioneer CLD-99  LD player, including a video output bypass that circumvents the circuits that (in their heyday) cleaned up the video signal before piping it out via RCA or S-Video. His mods apparently produce about the best video signal you can get out of a laserdisc player. I can't thoroughly explain it, but for all the tech-junkies, it might be worth a visit to his youtube page. If anyone could produce the best copy transfer off of the CAV GOUT discs, I'm sure he could. He's also on AVSForum here, if anyone wanted to petition him. 

I've been scouting for a set of the SW LD's for awhile now.

that being said...

CAN'T Wait for 2.5! The blu-ray burner is hooked up and ready to go!  

Upgraded my home theatre projector to a full hd Mitsubishi HC4000 recently so come on Harmy wheres your new version? Oh and hurry up with Return of the Puggo!;-)