The video's maximum brightness level is about 2/3 of the maximum available, colour also needs to be boosted slightly, otherwise the video looks ok.
brightness 2/3 of maximum, is that good or bad? Yes the color is a bit washed out as it is on the LD, haven't done anything about that yet.
I'll experiment on boosting it.
I haven't done anything with the audio yet. But can you hear a difference between the AC3 and the PCM audio?
If you're encoding a 1 hour 56 min film across 2 SL DVDs you won't need to do multipass encoding just 1 pass constant bitrate
brightness 2/3 of maximum, is that good or bad? Yes the color is a bit washed out as it is on the LD, haven't done anything about that yet.
I'll experiment on boosting it.
The sample DVD was encoded weirdly, it played ok on WinDVD but the anamorphic bit wasn't set right so everything looked stretched, when I played it through my hardware DVD decoder the video stuttered, so I put SmartRipper on it and extracted the two audio tracks + the video, the stuttering on the tv out of my hardware DVD decoder appears to be because of the weird DVD encode, in the filename of the m2v it says "([0xE0]_Video_NTSC_720x480)" even though it's encoded to PAL format.
Hmmm that's strange. I forgot to set it as 16x9 so the dvd player thinks it's 4x3. Weird about the "([0xE0]_Video_NTSC_720x480)" and stuttering, I didn't set "output topfield first and offsetline (both "0") in CCE, but it plays fine on my dvd player. In CCE I can't mark the source as PAL can I?
The audio has been time compressed as with the PAL VHS Moth3r used but the dynamic range has been compressed, I loaded up the extracted PCM into CoolEdit to compare with my definitive collection audio and the explosions just don't have that 'punch' of DC LD audio, most notably during the opening laserblast shots and when the stormtroopers blow the door open.
Hmmm that's strange. I forgot to set it as 16x9 so the dvd player thinks it's 4x3. Weird about the "([0xE0]_Video_NTSC_720x480)" and stuttering, I didn't set "output topfield first and offsetline (both "0") in CCE, but it plays fine on my dvd player. In CCE I can't mark the source as PAL can I?
The audio has been time compressed as with the PAL VHS Moth3r used but the dynamic range has been compressed, I loaded up the extracted PCM into CoolEdit to compare with my definitive collection audio and the explosions just don't have that 'punch' of DC LD audio, most notably during the opening laserblast shots and when the stormtroopers blow the door open.
I haven't done anything with the audio yet. But can you hear a difference between the AC3 and the PCM audio?
If you're encoding a 1 hour 56 min film across 2 SL DVDs you won't need to do multipass encoding just 1 pass constant bitrate
I'm putting face 1 and 2 on one disc and face 3 and 4 on the other. That means disc one is slightly over an hour. (maybe I should put it on a DL disc
) So for ANH I can use the maximum bitrate aivalable, with Jedi it's different. But I always do multipass also on CBR.