digitalfreaknyc said:
My Canadian best buy disc is coming on Saturday. That will complete my extras. :)
Hi DFNYC,
How's it coming along? Were you planning on sharing this project when complete?
Cheers
DVD-BOY
digitalfreaknyc said:
Looks like someone on BD.com already removed the DRM from it. Jeez...anyone know how to do it?
I think the only way is with Requiem, although it error'd out on my machine - I think my iTunes is too new.
Noteburner appears to be the best 'converter' at present.
dvdmike said:
Aimersoft DRM Media Converter works I just tried the trial with the ship to ship video and it works
Didn't work for me - just gave me an itunes error.
From the language they use, it sounds like they are screen scraping the video rather than doing a 1-2-1 conversion.
The only tool that does remove the FairPlay DRM appears to be no longer developed.
Any word on the other bonus discs?
-- UPDATE --
OK, a bit more luck, so it appears that you cannot play extras in a separate window, which trips up the software. I've managed to convert the video but now have an issue with the audio:
1. It's out of sync
2. It records your audio output so mine had a YouTube video mixed in with it...
Getting closer though.
-- UPDATE 2 --
Got everything working ok, now trying to work out which output format gives the best quality, because of the way the system works it needs to transcode in realtime it seems, so the quality isn't exactly the same as the original - I've dropped the makers of SoundTaxi an email to see why they don't support Lagarith or similiar AVI codecs - I guess because you're supposed to be making direct a device compatible file.
-- UPDATE 3 --
Having checked my UK Steelbook Mike, the PS3 says it's a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 track - I've only got a 5.1 reciever though.
dvdmike said:
Looks like the hoopla with the uk not getting everything is unfounded.
My uk steelbook came and my digital copy and itunes extras are downloading now
My steelbook has also turned up, so I will look into what tools can UN-DRM this evening.
Just need to keep an eye out for the bonus discs now.
I've seen the standard movie file online - has anyone seen the itunes extras package appear yet?
bigrob said:
check the German version out. 2 seperate press releases in Germany state 13 extra features and the IMAX ratio (1.78:1) for the 3D version
i'm holding out for that one when it's released 12 September and waiting for confirmation that it does indeed feature all of the above
From Bill Hunt's updated post it appears that the Target / Sainsburys / German additions will give the 'core' bonus content, but there is still additional content on top.
From Bluraysforeveryone.com:
***Bonus Disc Includes 70 Minutes of Special Features Including 30 Min. of Exclusive detailed insight into the development of the movie’s characters and its amazing world of visual effects***
It sounds like the Target Bonus disc will have the 'core' extras as per the Sainsburys disc, but then more on top again.
Less tempted to pick up the Sainsbury's disc if the same content is on the Target Blu-ray - that's the same trick they pulled with Avengers I believe (SD uk, HD us).
Does anyone know whether the iTunes Digital Copy comes with the commentary etc? I remember being surprised when the Ghost Protocol Digital Copy turned out to be a iTunes Extras package.
Bill Hunt is not impressed:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/082813_1415
I've got the 3D steelbook on order and I'm tempted to pick up the Sainsbury's exclusive disc. Once we know more about the other exclusives, and what can be 'captured' from the streaming services, we'll have a better idea what can be achieved.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Colour me interested. I used to love this show, but only reccently picked up the DVD set - have only watched the extras so far.
Best of luck.
Has anyone downloaded similiar e-books before? I'm wondering how easy it is to extract the images and assets, or are they in some proprietary format?
With Dolby TrueHD you have to give the authoring two files, one for Dolby Digital compatibility, and one for the Lossless audio. DTS-HD MA is far easier to work with as it's all inside one file.
Has anyone undertaken a preservation of bonus material not included on the DVDs / Blu-rays.
I understand that "Hunchback" had some great content not ported from the laserdisc? Are ther any others?
I've just flicked through my updated and revised copy of Creative Impulse and it's not there.
I'm wondering if there is a use / call for a summary of the changes described in these comparisons and where the best quality example is available.
For example, currently the best example of the original shots would be either Team Blu's project or Harmy's De-specialised Edition. For most of the Special Edition shots, it would be the Blu-ray, except when they were changed in the 2004 / 2011 edition - Jabba for example, and so forth.
The core sources we have to work with are:
Would this seem accurate?
This can probably be gained from none's shot lists, but the amount of information in that impressive work still makes my brain ache...
Laserschwert said:
Even back in DVD days (they're over, right?) there were players that had problems playing discs that utilized seamless branching. But we should not forget, seamless branching and alternate angles is not the same thing. Video angles can be used if the running time is identical in all angles (and the multi language crawls on the official SW DVDs used angles), while seamless branching provides in fact alternate "playlists" of parts of a movie so the play time can differ.
Unfortunately angles are still diffcult to pull off.
The official Star Wars DVD used angles, but the BD may be seamless branched as there are seperate crawls on the disc as M2TS files.
With Blu-ray multi-angle, you actually duplicate all of the audio with each angle, so that each stream is a standalone file which are then 'interleaved' during the muxing process.
Harmy said:
This would be awesome if I could do something like this on the DeEd BD, because then it could pause on each despecialized shot and explain how it was done and show some before/after footage and stuff but it's just way out of the realm of possibility here.
Even if you cannot author your disc like this, it would make a nice framing device whereby when you select the extra, you show the scene, then 'rewind' to show how it was done - they could work quite well on their own.
Darth Neo said:
It includes new material in better quality from the Dutch Broadcast and the clips I released in 2007 all in the correct order. I have added the main and end titles to make a coherent whole. It totals 26 minutes. The whole documentary is 56 minutes.
It's great being able to see more of this.
Do you have any plans to release the entire thing?
AntcuFaalb said:
(The following uses PAL for any figures and examples.)
TV displays work in an interesting way. They use interlacing to display frames.*
Instead of showing one frame 25 times per second, they show one-half of a frame 50 times per second. Each one-half of a frame is called a field.
Now, each field is composed of every other line in a frame. So the even field contains lines: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, ... and the odd field contains lines: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, .... (This is the reason why separating fields results in a half-resolution image.)
There are two ways to order your fields for transmission and/or recording. You can send the even field first (a.k.a., top field first or TFF) or you can send the odd field first (a.k.a., bottom field first or BFF).
DVDs standardized on sending the even field first, so every DVD is TFF. However, TV (or just UK TV or maybe just ITV) broadcasts send the odd field first, so they're BFF.
Your DVD recorder probably assumes that its input is TFF, but your source is BFF, so your recording has the even field where the odd field should be and vice versa. This results in a combing pattern that appears to be very similar to the interlacing we all know and love.
Please let me know if you'd like me to explain further!
* The reason for using interlacing is to reduce the bandwidth needed for over-the-air transmission. Remember bunny ears?!
This has to be one of the best posts I have read in a long time.
Can this be part of a sticky in the Tech Forum.
jero32 said:
Damn that's a gout shot? I need to get my eyes checked, or they're doing a really good job of upscaling it. (probably the first)
I think you'll find it's the second ;-)
Out of interest, does anyone have scans of Fangoria #97 as it looks like it included a piece about NOTLD90?
Out of interest, what tools are you using to make the Blu-ray, authoring-wise?
Harmy said:
@DVD-BOY: Thank you but that didn't answer my question at all. I understand that the size won't always be exactly the same but what is the average size of a 5.1 DTS-HD track? And how big will the stereo tracks be in whatever lossless format is the best for those. I have zero knowledge of this stuff and I'd just like to know the approximate numbers.
I think Jan best sums it up:
Jan said:
I've seen 5.1 DTS-HD MA tracks varying in size from like 1.5 GB to more than 4 GB for 2 hour movies.
If it is of any help, I took the 5.1 from Dark Jedi's v3 DVD Project, decoded back to wavs and transcoded to DTS-HD MA.
The file came in at 3.25 GB. Average looks like about 3.7Mbps, Peak 4.7Mbps. 1.5Mbps Core.
Harmy said:
This leads me to a question about audio - how large will the lossless mixes be? I need to account for them when deciding on encoding bitrates of the other features on the BD.
DTS-HD MA is a lossless format, so once Hairy_Hen has done the encoding it will produce a log file stating what the average and peak bitrate is.
I always base my bitrate on the peak.
Don't forget with Blu-ray your max br with video and audio is 48Mbps, just video is 40Mbps, so you have 8Mbps just for audio.
negative1 said:
we have had terrible problems looking into cineform.
no way we would use that... then again, we haven't
tested openEXR either.
What kind of problems?
According to the wiki it's supported by most industry packages.
Cineform because it is in an AVI wrapper works also with AVISynth which we've all seen can do some pretty sweet image processing.
I would really like to see a bit of a side by side between these various formats.