AntcuFaalb

althor1138 said:

BTW, I'm planning on putting all of the raw files to my captures up on the newsgroup so that everybody will have access to them.

That's fantastic news! Thanks!!!

darth_ender said:

That's the only other change I've noticed.

In that case, then we might be able to fix it without re-encoding.

We'd need to:

1  crop/resize the shot from althor1138's preservation to match adywan's reconstruction
2  color match
3  (other post-processing)
4  match grain
5  encode to MPEG2, matching the bitrate of adywan's reconstruction as closely as possible
6  splice it in using something like Cutteraman

pat man said:

Sorry, phone typo.

Was the following a "phone typo" too, pat man?!

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Type-a-SLIGHTLY-naughty-word-might-become-NSFW/post/601569/#TopicPost601569

How's this, guys? DeFish with an fov of 84°.

Moth3r said:

Looks like Adywan missed that one in his theatrical reconstruction (the bridge is there). Also, this change is not mentioned in this dvdactive article.

Do we know if Adywan missed anything else in his theatrical TPM reconstruction?

Holy carp: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22tinababy_9%40yahoo.com%22

Holy carp: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22tinababy_9%40yahoo.com%22

Well, I finally got around to checking this out. I used the SMPTE color bar pattern on the AVIA DVD and...

Panasonic DMR-ES10 =(s-video)=> Hauppauge USB-Live2 Capture Card gives me surprisingly-close results using all default settings.

(All values given below are in YUV.)

DMR-ES10 =(S)=> USB-Live2

video_black: 16/128/128

video_white: 233/128/128

75% grey: 180/128/128

75% yellow: 161/45/141

75% cyan: 130/155/46

75% red: 64/100/210

Question: Will this method help when the values are this close?

bkev: I got one as well: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Troll-Speculation-Thread/post/637159/#TopicPost637159

WTF. The following is a PM I received recently. Should I play along?

tinababy2011 said:

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There are too many Darths on the forum.

Promus: Your avatar should be "THE STAR WARS SAGA: 1977-1996".

The franchise died in 1997, not 1999.

althor1138 said:

I've updated post #2 with the "pluge pulse" test.  I don't know what I should be looking for exactly but it seems like the box on the left does flicker a bit so is it totally failing or is it just moderately bad at this test?

Thanks. Can you upload a losslessly-compressed (e.g., Lagarith) version?

Some codecs mess with the luma levels to avoid certain artifacts.

althor1138 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

althor1138: I PM'd you the link to the DVE Pluge Pattern.

Thanks!

I got it now.  I've got some things to do today so either tonight or tomorrow I'll post the results.  Do you have any more test patterns?  I'll take everything you've got if you don't mind. Maybe I should just look online for it.

PM sent!

althor1138: I PM'd you the link to the DVE Pluge Pattern.

Thanks!

Does DJ plan to put this and NotLD on Usenet? If so, which newsgroup? a.b.starwars?

althor1138 said:

It is the early pressing that is missing a few seconds of esb where leia is welding on the falcon.

That's awesome. It has 100% split-lightsabers, then. The late-issue pressing replaced some of the most offensive split-lightsaber shots.

I don't think we have a nice preservation of that one. Cool!

althor1138 said:

I'm in the middle of recapturing the SE and DC because I accidentally captured it in yv12 the first time :(.  Seriously, that's like 12+ hours of my life gone down the drain lol.

I know how you feel. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've captured PS78 and had to scrap it because I realized that a setting was wrong. Ugh!

Do you have a late-issue DC pressing? If so, then it's supposedly identical to the THX "Faces" set, but higher quality because it's CAV rather than CLV.

althor1138 said:

Anyway, I'll try to get it to you tonight between discs though.

Awesome. Thanks!

I don't have it uploaded anywhere, so I'll have to send it to you when I get home from work in ~2.5 hours.

I guess the only thing left is to see if it exhibits the same AGC issues as the USB one.

If it doesn't, then this is definitely the best capture card on the market.

Would you be willing to run the pluge pattern from DVE through it? I can provide the m2v...

Dude, that's amazing!

There's no checkerboarding at all AFAICT.

Thanks for putting up with all of my questions and requests! I know I can be a bit much at times...

althor1138 said:

If there is I don't think it's much.

If it's not too much to ask: Can you post the following two images?

1. The last frame before a sharp scene-change (e.g., Stormtroopers before Stormtroopers->Leia)

2. The first frame of the sharp scene-change (e.g., Leia after Stormtroopers->Leia)

I'd greatly appreciate it...

althor1138 said:

Ok I put up the scene of the stormtroopers and leia. I put the link in my first post to ease finding it in the future.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, I won't be able to see it until I get home tonight. :-(

Did you see any checkerboarding on the first frame after a sharp scene-change?

It's an easy-to-spot artifact, so you can't miss it.

althor1138 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Can you post a short clip of a fast moving scene with some sharp scene-changes from one of your captures as well?

I'm interested to see if the Diamond Theater750HD exhibits any "checkerboarding" like my Panasonic DMR-ES10 does.

Actually, can you just post the last frame before a sharp scene-change and the first 1-3 frames after?

Thanks!

I'm sure you've got a scene or two in mind from Star wars you could use as a reference.  If you just tell me which one I can try to put it up on Sendspace.

From poita:

1. "The scene where the storm troopers are searching for leia tests the 3D comb filter, lots of quick scene changes, intense reds, the blue of the stun ray and the fine detail around the doorway and floor grids."

2. "The other scene is R2 moving throught the canyon, the close-up panning shot reveals any smearing created by the comb filter."

althor1138 said:

I uploaded it to sendspace instead.

Thanks!