Chewtobacca

Darth Mallwalker said:

 

That "inserting/removing frames" bit has always scared me from using Force Film.
I've usually chosen 'Ignore' instead because I don't want any frames removed. Do I?
Why would one want frames removed? Wouldn't it cause herky-jerky playback?
I just don't understand why or when, under what conditions Force Film might decide to remove some frames.
And when/why would frames be inserted? Where would the inserted frames come from? Repeats? Again sounds like a recipe for herky-jerky motion to my pea brain.
Is it even safe to use Force Film?

 

Using forced film is fine if your material reads as over 95% film in DGIndex, which it should do if you dealing with an NTSC movie.  Movies start life as 24fps, and this is, by and large, how they are stored on the DVD.  Pulldown flags instruct the player to turn this 24fps (actually 23.976) into the 30fps (actually 29.97) required by all but the most modern TVs for playback.  Removing the flags restores leaves the original 24fps in place and does not create jerky motion because when you re-encode after editing your encoder adds the pulldown flags back (assuming you choose the correct settings).

Sometimes material is stored on the DVD with the pulldown already in place.  If there is enough of this material on the DVD, then forced film might leave blended frames because it removed the pulldown incorrectly.  In this case you choose "Honor Pulldown Flags" and write an Avisynth to restore the original 24fps (inverse telecine) another way.

 The "Ignore Pulldown Flags" option is meant for power users as a testing mode.  It is a mistake to select it if you don't really know what you are doing. 

In short, use Forced Film unless you encounter a problem.  If you do encounter a problem, use "Honor Pulldown Flags" and inverse telecine in Avisynth.

I am glad that Erikstormtrooper made it work.  Just to be clear, the instructions were basically Adywan's instructions for replacing the audio track for his ESB Reconstruction, as the situation is more or less the same.

TheBoost said:I teach high school, and maybe I've just lost my patience for people who sound like assy teenagers. Which might mean the internet will soon be off limits to me.

Lol!  It won't come to that. :-)  If people act in that way, I put them on my ignore list and forget about them.  You don't lose the people with whom it's worth interacting, and I enjoy the internet more this way.

Lee, the other files for the SW '97 SE seem up and complete.  The upload seems to have gone perfectly. 

This was very enjoyable.  I thought the colors looked great.  There were some color fluctuations at various points, but this might have been in the source, and I didn't find them too distracting.  Other than that, great work!  I eagerly await the completion of the ESB upload. :-)

Looks good so far!  The menu looks nice.  The audio reads as 5.1.  I'm really enjoying this. Great work! :-)

Well, enough of the archive for recovery is available.  I'll check the missing parts later and let you know, but everything seems fine.  I can't wait to watch this, so I'll use the pars and recover this now. :-)

^ It's Lee Thorogoods PAL Star Wars 1997 SE lol.

Yeah; it hasn't moved for quite a while now.  There are still some par2s that are incomplete, along with rars 94, 101, 104, 120, and 145-152.

LeeThorogood said: My news reader is telling me I have about an hour left to go on the uploading of ANH from my '97 SE preservation. I was wondering as this is my first upload to a news group if someone could download this and report back if its a good upload or not before I proceed to upload anything else. :)

I've already downloaded most of it.  I'll let you know at the end of the download if there are any problems. :-)

I'll PM you in a sec.  :-)

EDIT: PM sent.

No; you can't use tsmuxer for DVD.  That link refers to AVCHD.  Use PGCDemux to demux the video and audio, muxman to remux the video with your new audio and vobblanker to reauthor the disc.  I can find more detailed instructions if you need them.

^ Consider yourself lucky!  I'd happy with any rendering time that was measured in hours rather than days.  I don't think Rogue has anything to worry about.  It sounds as if his machine is just as slow as mine.

That's the kind of speed I get, when I render out the script.  :-(  It will be a long wait, I'm afraid...

dark_jedi said:

So NO ONE here knows how to encode a lossless avi using x264 LOL?

You write an Avisynth script pointing to the AVI:

Avisource("whatever.avi")

and feed that to a GUI.  I would recommend something like ASX or XviD4PSP to start off.  They are both fairly straight forward and have features for resizing and cropping.  Personally, I perform my own calculations for resizing and cropping and add them to the Avisynth script.

The loss in detail is minimal, in my opinion, and more than offest by the gains provided by dark_jedi's latest tweaks.  I think it looks fine as it is.

Warbler said: God, 20 years ago was 1991, I feel so old.   : (

Tell me about it!

TV's Frink said:YOU WOULDN'T LOVE 'EM IF I WAS SMOKING IN YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW.

You're definitely smoking today, Frink!

Hypothetical arguments!  I love 'em!

We always knew it would rise again -- from the ashes...

Good luck, CSA! : )

When I first read the thread title of this thread, I thought that it was an exhortation lol.

Yeah; it depends on the source.   I usually stick to 224kbps unless the source is very high quality.

Go here.

This might help a little.

rogueOne said:How much quality difference is there between the V3 DVDs and the MBEs?  I mean, I can see the bitrate differences you list, but what does that actually mean to my eyes?

No one can objectively tell you how much difference you will see.  I imagine that you will see very little difference between those two bitrates, assuming that all other settings are the same.

I must admit that I can't see any problems with the sabers.  Yoda does look subtly better.