Video Collector said:
Bear in mind that the extremely grainy image on the Japanese Ep1 LD means the compression needs a much better bit-budget for transparent results compared with the average film.
I for one would line up for a "superbit" version of your capture.
Here is the MediaInfo on one disc of my capture. Maybe there would be a way to get a 3rd capture and do a median of them? I am ONLY familiar with VirtualDub. I am not an AVIsynth user. I'd love to see a way to clean up the video for a better presentation.
:)
General
Complete name : F:\Video Projects\Star Wars Laserdisc Transfers\TPM Japan LD\2.VOB
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 2.72 GiB
Duration : 14s 993ms
Overall bit rate : 1 561 Mbps
Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 14s 979ms
Bit rate : 1 530 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 9 100 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 147.703
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00;00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
Stream size : 2.67 GiB (98%)
Audio
ID : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 14s 993ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -67ms
Stream size : 469 KiB (0%)