DisgruntledFan said:

Asaki said:

Surely some of the more able members here could cook up an un-interlace/re-interlace AVIsynth script to replicate what this guy did?

http://www.modeemi.fi/~leopold/Babylon5/DVD/DVDTransfer.html#030421proof

It's nothing that challenging - the effects are just 30p.

The real problem is that the live action is 24p, while the effects are 30p. This makes it difficult to produce a progressive video stream because the frame rate would need to vary shot to shot.

I think this is possible in an MKV container, but I think you'd end having to put it together on a command line.

The DVDs are a non-starter. The widescreen versions of the show were done on the cheap. Widescreen footage was spliced in where possible, everything else (CGI, composites, and live footage starting or ending with crossfades) is just 4:3 footage blown up and cropped. No script is going to fix that.

I've tried one of the episodes on iTunes, and the quality was shockingly awful. Unless someone knows how to do a rip from Netflix, the laser discs are probably the only option.

You'll also want to avoid any PAL sources. B5 in PAL has always suffered from horrendous audio speed up issues that were not present when the show was originally transmitted outside the USA. No idea why. First time I bought one of the VHS tapes everyone sounded like they had a mouthful of helium, and the PAL DVD's are only marginally better. Not sure if there ever were PAL Laserdiscs of B5, but if so they probably have the same problem.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with.