Return of the Pug (ROTP) - webpage and screenshots (Released) — Page 14

I’m pretty sure I’ve coaxed TMPGE 2.5 to work on 8.1…

Got the old TMPGEnc to work with Mpeg2 using a virtual machine and running XP mode. It’s clunky but it works. Should have tried that before.

ahughes03 said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

I still expect there to be a quick glitch near the start, plus problems in reel 1 with contrast. And of course fur balls and mouse droppings.

We come for the glitches/contrast issues, but stay for the mouse droppings…

I like that slogan! “Come for the glitches, stay for the mouse droppings.”

But… I came for the mouse droppings…

Another minor annoyance is that, as far as I can tell, ROTJ runs 10 minutes longer than SW and ESB. May have to skip the usual bonus extra on the DVD.

Things coming together well. TMPGE is SO much better than MainConcept… very glad to not be wrestling with that any more. This alone may have fixed the glitch I was encountering. I also discovered I was wasting some space in my audio encode.

Should be done with the movie encodes today. Will start working on the menu next. Not sure if there will be room for a “making of” track or not - probably a short one.

Audio and video encoding done.
Will start working on menus etc. tomorrow.

This will be a day long remembered.

So excited that this is on the horizon. I can’t wait to do a full mouse dropping Pug trilogy runthrough!

Are any of our veteran framecounters watching this thread? I’d be interested if Chewtobacca or Darth Mallwalker are planning to do a post-release GOUT-to-ROTP conversion script over in the GOUT sync thread.

I would be surprised if it were anything different than a mono fold-down of the standard stereo mix. But you never know.

As for the previous two, this will have an AC3 encoding for the audio. If anyone hears it and decides there is a good use for the raw .wav captures, they can be made available.

Possessed said:

Could you not just slightly lower the bit rate for rotj to make room? And for mpg2 I highly, HIGHLY recommend hcenc. It’s free and gives fantastic results. And it has an option to where you just set max bitrate and desired file size and it will calculate the avg bit rate automatically and get very close to the filesize you desire. It works great and I even use it for blu ray encoding because it’s so easy and its encodes are as good as h264 at high bit rates. (Obviously at lower bit rates h264 will always win but at high rates I don’t see much difference)

I’ll give hcenc a try and compare the results with tmpge. Thanks for the tip.

SilverWook said:

Will stereo from the Laserdisc be an option as it was with PSB?

I don’t remember if I ever got the laserdisc audio for ROTJ. I’ll look through my files.

I’ve lost track of what are the most interesting versions. I’m guessing mallwalker or someone has done a digital transfer of an uncompressed version?

I’ll leave the decision to you and Jaxxon, keeping in mind that I don’t know yet if I can squeeze it in.

Possessed said:

Could you not just slightly lower the bit rate for rotj to make room? And for mpg2 I highly, HIGHLY recommend hcenc. It’s free and gives fantastic results. And it has an option to where you just set max bitrate and desired file size and it will calculate the avg bit rate automatically and get very close to the filesize you desire. It works great and I even use it for blu ray encoding because it’s so easy and its encodes are as good as h264 at high bit rates. (Obviously at lower bit rates h264 will always win but at high rates I don’t see much difference)

What do you think might be a reasonable average bitrate for acceptable quality?

I ripped 1478-80
A long time ago…

Schorman ripped 'em all
and GOUT-sync’ed too!

For a DVD release you wouldn’t want uncompressed PCM; it’s more than a gigabyte.
I think Harmy’s AVCHD had a 2.0 track, if the bitrate isn’t too high for DVD-spec.
Chew used hairy_hen’s 5.1 IIRC when he converted Harmy’s works to DVD