AntcuFaalb

TServo2049 said:

Williarob got back to me, turns out my account had vanished from the system. He was able to restore it.

Weird! o.O

15 hours left!

althor1138 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Your DVD player will do the pulldown in this case. NTSC GOUT is encoded this way.

 

Thanks.  That is exactly what I wanted to know.

You're very welcome, of course.

Homework: Upscale an anamorphic DVD of your choosing and post your script here!

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You_Too said:

AntcuFaalb said:

In fact, I hit a snag early-on: I have to re-install PFClean. The VirtualBox VM I have it running in is totally b0rked. :-/

Why do you have to run it in a VM? Can't you just block the software with your firewall? (Assuming that's the reason)

Anyway, looking forward to see your results!

I'm running a 32-bit OS (Windows XP Home) on a 64-bit CPU, but PFClean requires a 64-bit OS, so I'm using Windows XP Professional x64 in the VM.

I don't want to dual-boot and I can't install any 64-bit OS on my machine because I use certain (older) hardware devices with drivers that explicitly require Windows XP 32-bit, nothing more or less.

doubleKO said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Starting Scene #1!

Have it finished by tomorrow.

*cracks whip*

I wish!

In fact, I hit a snag early-on: I have to re-install PFClean. The VirtualBox VM I have it running in is totally b0rked. :-/

It works fine for me.

althor1138 said:

I am planning on using HCenc 0.25 for encoding to mpeg2 unless I find something better.  Do I understand correctly that if I give it a file at 23.976 fps it is going to convert it to 29.97fps anyway before it encodes?  If this is the case I'm thinking that I shouldn't Decimate the original 29.97fps file down to 23.976 and just encode it as it is.  Thoughts?

You can encode it with the ntsc_film framerate (23.976fps) after IVTCing. This allows you to use a higher bitrate because you're not wasting space on duplicated fields.

Your DVD player will do the pulldown in this case. NTSC GOUT is encoded this way.

I'm uploading part 2/2 now.

I'm sorry for the delay.

Starting Scene #1!

Tyrphanax said:

You have a strange relationship with your wife.

No, I'm just a strange person.

Asaki said:

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

• 74 - Akira (Criterion Collection CAV) (Letterbox - DS)
• 74b - Akira (Criterion Collection CLV) (Letterbox - DS)

Apparently I'm in a niche group of people who prefer the original English dub of Akira to the redub (and I don't just mean on this forum). There was an official PAL release of it on DVD, but it's in fullscreen, it looks pretty crummy, and I could not get the audio to sync up to NTSC video at all.

I think the audio was in mono, too. I know someone had an AVI widescreen fan-edit of the original audio at Demonoid, I think it was in stereo, but the sound quality was really bad. Probably sourced from an old VHS.

I guess most people just watch it with the Japanese audio and English subs.

Yes, that's what my wife and I do.

However, I consider the original English dub to be one of the best.

Chewtobacca said:

That's good to hear, ww12345. :)

What did your script to get rid of the field blending look like?  The blends on my copy are quite bad, especially the odd fields, which generally speaking look far worse than the even fields.  I wonder if we taped the same broadcast.

I believe he used Srestore.

I definitely need a partner for this. I don't need technical help, but I do need someone to assist in planning and review.

My time-management is poor, at best.

Also, it'd be nice to have someone with whom I can discuss the various issues I encounter along the way; a second opinion is always helpful.

Warbler said:

AntcuFaalb, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.  ; )

True, but I was only posting that to quote Ben Kenobi.

That seems best to me, Andrea!

1 day, 20 hours, 14 minutes left!

You_Too said:

Leonardo said:

I remember back in 1999 some people actually thought the world was gonna end, among other things.

The thing I remember the most was all the talk about that "all computers will stop working" and that this would cause a total economical collapse. This caused the shops to advertise new computers as "year 2000-proof".

Personally I think if the world will end in our time, it will be caused by war and not by some ancient calendar.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." --Albert Einstein

timdiggerm said:

I think we just learned that Frink is a fellow Marylander.

I wonder if he really is...

althor1138 said:

So today I want to try and capture my P&S. It is time-compressed. What is the best method for capturing a time-compressed laserdisc? Is it possible to recover the frames in a progressive structure?

Unfortunately, I know nothing about time-compressed LDs.

timdiggerm said:

AntcuFaalb said:

timdiggerm said:

AntcuFaalb said:

I'm not too sure if I even have the motivation to restore the B&W ones.

At least with the pilots, restoration is the first step before colorization. I know colorization can often be disappointing, but in the heat of the DSII battle, it just may work.

OK, but I'll still focus on doing the color scenes first.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

When this project is complete, I suggest a big rar or zip or whatever be released (via spleen, etc) as a fan-edit resource.

I agree. That sounds best.

bkev: Color issues aside, is the BatB BD the theatrical release? My wife is concerned about some "added scenes" that popped up in some home video releases, or something...