Originally posted by: Laserman

Originally posted by: Moth3r

Originally posted by: Laserman
But anyway they will be different in that the PAL scene will be missing some of the picture, and will run at a different frame rate with the corresponding problem of everyone speaking as if they have had a very mild dose of Helium.

The audio on the UK VHS (and also I assume on the French Laserdisc boxed set with English audio) has been sped up with the pitch preserved, so the helium effect is no present.

True, but if you use the VHS audio, then you are missing out on the loveliness that is the PCM digital stereo track. The VHS audio is pretty good, but when you A/B it on my gear, the PCM track is definately preferred, and everyone stops rushing their lines ;^)

In my experience, if you are trying to preserve the audio as PCM on a DVD, you will be sacrificing space for the video. You would be better off going with DD audio conversion as I have found no noticable difference between this (at 224/256kbps) and PCM audio (1536 kbps) - it takes less space!!! You can easily tell the DD soundtrack file that it is Dolby Surround encoded. The non-encoding of the black bars also makes more space for the actual video too - on my current version I have managed to fit SW (DE) as WS on single layer DVD with bitrate of 6-7Mbps and DD audio (and a DD commentary track). Quality is really great!!!

I have to redo mine though as I did not correctly cater for the TV overscan in my first attempts and hence some of the WS picture is not displayed on a normal TV.

I'm sure the settings use for the X0 will be the optimum for best/ultra quality.

BTW, are you aiming for SL / DL / Blueray? I tend to steer away from DL as there are greater incompatabilities with existing desktop players than with the SL disks (ie technology is still a bit green - probably due to manufacturers of disks and burners not strictly adhering to the DVD spec!)

ntrprs
(Australia)