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Wasn't sure if I should post this here or in the Off Topic section, sorry. Just wondering if anyone has the technical know-how to basically "clean up" a dvd? I have a movie from 1970 called Voyage Into Space that was supposedly transferred from a filmprint, and has a lot of lines and little things that basically bug me whenever I watch it. Is there any way to fix those? Rikter, TR47? any ideas? An official release is not commercially available in any format, and to the best of my knowledge has never been. I would kill for a remastered version of this film on dvd. Seriously, I would. Thanks.
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The video on a DVD is stored in MPEG-2 format; ideally the video should have been filtered to remove noise before encoding.

You will have to decode the MPEG-2, find a filter that will filter out the stuff that bugs you, and then re-encode back to MPEG-2 before authoring a new DVD. Quite a lot of work there and you will lose a bit of quality in the re-encoding.

A good place to start is to download VirtualDubMod, this can read the MPEG-2 VOB files ripped from a DVD and has a selection of video filters built in.

For more detailed advice the two main sites to read are videohelp.com and doom9.org.

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Also try www.videohelp.com and www.doom9.org
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Thanks guys, I will definitely check out those sites, but I am very "technically challenged" when it comes to this stuff. I read some of these posts and I am LOST. Will see what I can do.