Info: APOLLO 13 HD DVD to Blu-ray disc - Atomik Monkey BD25 (* unfinished project *)

So I’m rebuying a XBOX 360 HD DVD add-on player along with this film (including many other HD DVDs). Why? Well the Blu-ray disc has DNR applied to it unnecessarily but the HD DVD keeps the film grain. What I’m also going to do is rip bit-for-bit the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and also English subtitles from the Blu-ray for this film grain retained project.

First post and will be updated often. Especially when I get the add-on player. I’ll also do one for U-571 and American Me.

EDIT: DragonHeart would be easiest since I still have the HD DVD.

BTW, I have AnyDVD HD and tons of other software. Just not the disc nor add-on player.

Now you need the DTS Cinema audio for this movie.

DoomBot said:

Now you need the DTS Cinema audio for this movie.

Main track with DTS-HD MA 5.1 as secondary? I'm not going to have any dubs but I guess lots of subtitles. Thankfully I have the HDD space for both.

Yeah, you could have both i'm guessing they would still fit on a BD25 since your using the HDDVD video.

I still need to get the DTS cinema from Jetrell Fo and edit & sync it.

Keep both audio tracks ad the BD audio was taken from the imax track 

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

You have stolen my project... (^^,)

Not for another few months! DragonHeart with film grain would be easier since I have the HD DVD for it.

dvdmike said:

Keep both audio tracks ad the BD audio was taken from the imax track 

I figure main audio will be from the DTS Cinema discs, (I have to add you to my friends to receive PM) and secondary will be ripped from the USA Blu-ray disc. Which is the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Would anyone happen to have the PCM 5.1 track from the LD for Interview with the Vampire? I dunno if the full bitrate DTS track from the DVD will suffice. Cause Uncompressed > Lossy.

I have yet to be approached about getting the cinema DTS for this and I don't want to offer it just for personal or pet projects.  I want it to be shared for a project that everyone will benefit from.

A pm to me is only a click away.

:)

Jetrell Fo said:

I have yet to be approached about getting the cinema DTS for this and I don't want to offer it just for personal or pet projects.  I want it to be shared for a project that everyone will benefit from.

A pm to me is only a click away.

:)

 PM sent!

EDIT: I don't want to ask for any necessary files until I'm actually working on a project but if I could get everything squared away ahead of time, even better.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

I have Apollo 13 on HD-DVD, and on AC3 and DTS laserdiscs too; but I have not found (yet) a free software to rip the HD-DVD to hard disk...

Also, I'm thinking about, as someone suggested - bigrob, IIRC - to make a variable aspect ratio version using IMAX footage...

That sounds damn great. I was just gonna rip the HD DVD video with AnyDVD HD and mess around with synching the audio from there. But I don't even have the HD DVD or the add-on, as I mentioned. More of a keep the film grain deal easy thing. Another multi-disc compilation too.

Ugh, seeing a thread like this makes me wish that my upload speed was usable; I have the HD DVD and I've even already ripped it (losslessly). I wish I could help out but they're not recabling my street until October and I currently even struggle to upload files that are more than about 200 MB :(

I did something like this, since I had both the BD and HD DVD. A -431ms delay is what you need to add to sync the DTS-HD MA to the VC-1 stream. I hope this helps.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

I have Apollo 13 on HD-DVD, and on AC3 and DTS laserdiscs too; but I have not found (yet) a free software to rip the HD-DVD to hard disk...

 There's the free Lite version of DVDFab Passkey, which works with all HD DVDs I believe.  There's also an old Java program called Dump HD: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123111

I already muxed in the DTS-MA from the BD with the VC1 from the HD DVD for Apollo 13 a couple years ago, it worked pretty well.  You need to apply a -431ms delay to the DTS-MA according to this thread on AVS: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1243394/apollo-13-comparison-pix/300#post_19996540

If you happen to have (or obtain) an older copy of AnyDVD, it will do a nice job of ripping the HD-DVD file structure.

I'd also recommend using ClownBD to extract (and, if you like, remux) the streams - it's a fairly painless route to HD-DVD > BD conversion.

Jonno said:

If you happen to have (or obtain) an older copy of AnyDVD, it will do a nice job of ripping the HD-DVD file structure.

I'd also recommend using ClownBD to extract (and, if you like, remux) the streams - it's a fairly painless route to HD-DVD > BD conversion.

 Would you put together a quick tutorial for home use please?

 You can extract the VC-1 video stream from the HD-DVD with eac3to which will remove the pulldown flags and give you a 1080p24 stream

Elegant Tobacco said:

I did something like this, since I had both the BD and HD DVD. A -431ms delay is what you need to add to sync the DTS-HD MA to the VC-1 stream. I hope this helps.

 Thanks! I'll use this when I'm compiling the Blu-ray version. Then I'll make the folders BUT I'll be uploading it as an ISO for people to mount with a virtual optical drive software and even burn it out.

Yup, this project is mostly for me but I figure I'll always share them. ISO > Folders. FAR easier to burn.

Jetrell Fo said:

Jonno said:

If you happen to have (or obtain) an older copy of AnyDVD, it will do a nice job of ripping the HD-DVD file structure.

I'd also recommend using ClownBD to extract (and, if you like, remux) the streams - it's a fairly painless route to HD-DVD > BD conversion.

 Would you put together a quick tutorial for home use please?

Sure, I'll pull something together. It's worth noting that ClownBD is simply a user-friendly frontend for eac3to - it'll do the same jobs, but for some it will be preferable to the commandline approach.

Conversion guide up here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/HD-DVD-to-Blu-ray-conversion-with-ClownBD/topic/16468/

Jonno said:

Conversion guide up here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/HD-DVD-to-Blu-ray-conversion-with-ClownBD/topic/16468/

 Thanks Jonno!

I almost bought APOLLO 13 on Blu-ray for $10 USD yesterday but I passed it up for some good deals at Best Buy. Of course I pricematched. If I did see DragonHeart I would've bought that instead.

So, should this be the general HD DVD to Blu-ray disc thread for Atomik Monkey?