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As you may or may not already know, this series is not available as a whole on DVD. A few episodes have been released as packs in DVD, others in VHS and about 15 of them never even saw a commercial release. We bought all of the DVDs and tapes available from Amazon, and captured the unreleased episodes from TV, with the intention to make as good a transfer to DVD as possible.
Now, this could be undertaken by a single person if it wasn’t for the fact that no automatic IVTC in Avisynth (TIVTC, Decomb, SmartDecimate) works: they all leave nasty flickering/aliased lines that are painfully evident. The only method we discovered so far that can produce decent results is manual IVTC with TMPG. The rest of the filterchain is mostly figured out, so there are should be no problems there. So, what we need is some volounteers willing to either do it manually with TMPG or find an automatic method that works at least as well.
We also need to track down the latin american dubs (I believe they were done by mexican company <span class=“Bold”>Intertrak</span>) so we can extract the audio from them and incorporate them into the transfer. This is easier said that done: I myself have been searching for over a year on the internet and in RL to no avail. Finally, we need to either find or create english and spanish subtitles for each episode.
All those interested in pitching in, send me a PM or an e-mail and I will give you a link to both an unprocessed capture and an AVC encode of the pilot so that you can see what we’re aiming at.
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I just enabled PM, I didn’t know it was off by default.