althor1138 said:

The R7G chops everything off above 255. Side 1&2 of SW-JSC have some sort of weird mastering problem on my pressing where the black level starts at 16 even though it has the full range of a Japanese disc. This means that there is white information all the way up to 260-265. On the HF9G I could just extend the luma white point in virtualdub and recover everything. On the R7G I have to turn on d-ext and bring most of it back down under 255 so it doesn't get chopped off by the player. I guess there might be a tiny bit that gets clipped off but it is only in a couple of scenes on the tantive and maybe 1 or 2 elsewhere I think. I've been able to write a script that masks that information and copies it from the HF9G to the R7G but honestly I can't see a difference at all other than I have set the white levels higher on the R7G capture. I've only ever seen this on swjsc side 1 & 2 so I don't think this will ever be an issue on any other disc.

Thanks for explaining. I think I just were tricked by the different levels of your captures. I've done a more serious comparison of the two averaged versions with tweaked levels and I'm surprised by the difference in fine detail. Dot crawl is also minimized. Your HF9G capture actually looks fuzzy now in comparison to your new R7G capture, and I thought that one was one of the best LD-captures I've ever seen. Awesome work Althor!