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Gummi Bears (Released)

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I guess sorta a preservation question here.

I am currently ripping and making MKV’s of Disney’s Gummi Bears cartoon. Seasons 1-3 were released in the US and the rest/majority of eps were released in Australia a long time ago.

I could rip all of the NTSC versions then move over to PAL for the 4-6, or just grab the first 16 episodes or so from the NTSC then move onto the PAL.

I compared the same episode, the PAL release seems to have better compression and less macro-blocking, but in VLC it is showing ghosting or something in faster animations. Although, this issue is seemingly not noticeable when playing the file back through my Blu Ray player, so I am guessing its doing a better job with that playback issue. Although I did see a bit of interlacing not being De-interlaced properly.

What should I do? Currently I am leaning to just doing all the NTSC then continuing with the PAL for the rest, but if the issue isn’t as apparent on the playback through the player…

The other advantage of going with the NTSC is also that it’d be at the correct speed.

Thanks for any advice.

EDIT: Actually, maybe I should aim to try and tidy up the source if I can get some help in what to do I might go down that route.

Or at the very least I could send files to people who want to try.

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It might be that the PAL ones are playing at NTSC speed (common for TV shows), in which case the Avisynth command qtgmc(“fast”).srestore(23.976) can usually IVTC that.

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I have an older Mac, so would prob be a different thing.

It’s not a big issue, I’ll probably just decide how to break it up and rip to MKV. But maybe others might want to have a fiddle and see if we can get a better result.

Seems like NTSC rips for 1-3 might be for the better even if the encode is slightly worse.

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Sorry for double post.

Actually, VLC deinterlacing was set to blend, I changed it to the discard deinterlace option and the issue between the NTSC and the PAL one wasn’t really there anymore. Blend seemed to throw the PAL source a bit for some reason. Encode is better for PAL, but slightly softer.

Here’s a couple of comparison pics.

Pic 1
NTSC
http://i.imgur.com/JKfUk9t.png

PAL
http://i.imgur.com/WJ5pi8I.png

Pic 2
NTSC
http://i.imgur.com/OMbwN9k.png

PAL
http://i.imgur.com/q1b6wzp.png