Doctor M

According to AniDB.net, there is an ongoing fansub project for Speed Racer.

Looks like 23 of the 52 episodes have been completed so far.  Their last release was July 14th.

Great site for all your anime info needs.  And if you're handy with IRC you can get caught up.

Edit: Also, has The Shadow been seen to by anyone?  I've been watching an HDTV2DVD conversion I did a while back.  It's 16x9 (open matte) with DTS @ 1536kbps audio.

On the downside there are some artifacts from the broadcast and I was forced to adjust the colors (whoever did the transfer must have been watching Underworld at the time).

Can anyone tell me what the cmg-rad-source.ts is?  Found that part on a news search site.

Edit: Never mind.  I just checked it.  It is a source clip for comparison to the encoded sample clip.

Btw, saw this movie for the first time last night.  No really!  I can't believe I missed it all these years.

Good movie, glad there is a DVD of it.  Thanks for the work.

I ran into this for the first time today...

I project I previously compiled I came back to, changed 1 color in the palette and gave the already existing menu buttons 'play' function.

Now I get OOM.  Any suggestions?

Edit: Based on a recommendation on another thread, I deleted the audio from my menu.

The disc then compiled fine.

I added BACK the audio track... and the disc compiles fine.

I don't know what it is, but anyone experiencing this, should just for giggles try removing any menu audio, at least temporarily.

I just noticed last night that this is the #7 top rated extended edition on FE.org.

Womble Video Wizard DVD.  Great for resynching audio.

I like to lay out both tracks at the same time (the source one and the one I'm trying to sync), listen for desync between the two, slide around, cut and tweak, or whatever as needed and output nearly untouched 5.1 ac3 track.

I've tried Vegas (briefly) and found it complicated.  Womble is pretty intuitive (I learned to use it without instructions and created Star Wars RtW on my first go).

Of course if you luck out, you might just be able to adjust the delay, one way or the other, and you're done.

Just think of it as 4x3 is 4x3 and 16x9 is 16x9.

The actually resolution is different only because of video systems, but it's stretched to the proper resolution on playback.  If you think about it 720x480 is actual 1.5:1 and 720x576 is 1.25:1 neither of which is really 4x3.

I've long considered doing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.  It's pretty damn cinematic to start with.

Couldn't have said it better.  If you ever get too confused, Citizen's aspect ratio calculator is something I really couldn't live without.

Not that you really need it in this case, but it would have answered the question as well.

CompMovieGuy said:

If hes using the Hauppauge then he wont get the CC unless its being displayed (hard coded) on the video stream at the time hes using the device.

You would need to raw capture the video in order to get the CC stream as it is part of the PIDs, the Hauppauge doesnt work this way, its not a "direct stream" capture device, its a "on the fly" re-encoding device.

Is it on a PID?  I thought it was embedded in the mpeg video, just like analog TV.

I have a standalone DVR that re-encodes all video (even resize HD channels to SD) without damaging the line 21 captions.

digitalfreaknyc said:

Doctor M said:

I've extracted CC from TS streams just fine with CCExtractor GUI.

It's still embedded in the video the same way as standard def video.  The process isn't very difficult.

 But how were those TS streams capped?  The Hauppauge re-encodes. This isn't capturing the original stream (which is encoded and impossible).

Hauppauge re-encodes?  Hmm.  I have no idea if that will destroy the line 21 captions or not.  DVR typically don't, but PC encoding usually does.

Anyone know?  (Of course this is assuming there is even CC on the broadcast to start with).

I've extracted CC from TS streams just fine with CCExtractor GUI.

It's still embedded in the video the same way as standard def video.  The process isn't very difficult.

digitalfreaknyc said:

I have the HD version and would be happy to cap it for you.  What can you accept?  I can make a blu-ray for you.

Well that sounds awesome... but I don't have a BluRay player yet.  Any chance you could post or send me the raw capture?

From that I could make a DVD and have access to the originals for BD later, as needed.

Since that can be a serious undertaking an HD2DVD conversion would be fine.

If you really prefer to do the BD thing, go for it, I'll convert it to DVD from there.

I do have a special request no matter how you go.  If you re-encode, please rip any English subtitles or closed captioning.

Properly done, it is a new mix, frequently from the original elements that allows the audio engineer to expand the sound field and enhance the older mix.

That said, it isn't always done properly.

Don't mistake a commercial remaster for what we enthusiasts do: pushing the audio through a DPL decoder, saving the separate channels and encoding it as 5.1.

I dunno if there are 2 different Turner channels.  I don't get any of them.

But to be fair, the broadcast is more than 3 weeks away, so it might not me listed on some guides yet.

As far as SD, I was afraid that might be the case, but I believe they've been showing it letterboxed.

What kind of format are you able to cap/send?

bkev said:

Hey, Doctor M... is there any chance you could show me a comparison for Little Mermaid as well? Aside from the boner incident, I'd like to see these alleged color differences.

Probably not.  I no longer have the original DVD release.

That's very interesting.  Many of the color differences are VERY similar to The Little Mermaid's recoloring(?).

I don't know if they are messing with the colors so they look better on uncalibrated televisions or that we are seeing corrections to aging and older transfer methods.

I'm surprsied no one at Disney has stepped up to explain considering some of the flack they've taken.   But then again, they don't bother to defend the 'Home Theater' audio mixes either.

CompMovieGuy said:

I will look into this DoctorM, but Im not sure if I get TCM, but I will report back when I find out

That would be awesome.  I have a VHS recording from cable TV from about 20 years ago and a divx that is artifact ridden, low resolution, and out of sync.

Is the 2005 restoration poorly done?  Lowry usually does a decent job... unlike the films Disney has tried to restore themselves.

Moth3r said:

I've removed the links to what you call "deadware" - I suspect there are still legal issues with the downloads of these programs.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware

Sure thing.  I'll update it with links to demo & free versions instead.

Okay... the guide got a major overhaul.  (Hence it is now v2.)

Several programs are out, better programs are in.

More details are filled in to cover more eventualities.

Subtitle conversion is now easier and accurate for all cases thanks to a new tool available.

Lots and lots of changes, I don't anticipate any problems, but I always welcome contributions and corrections.

Edit: I also have a downloadable version of the guide available in Word format.

http://www.mediafire.com/?46vy3uond75v5u3

Edit 2: Um, ok made a quick fix to make sure the proper color palette is used during subtitle conversion.

According to: http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=24084&mainArticleId=99268

The Wheeler Dealers (1963) will be aired Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:00 AM on Turner Classics.
It stars James Garner and Lee Remick.

This movie isn’t on DVD and it’s one of my all-time-not-on-DVD-favorite-films.

I’d love to get this in the highest quality anyone can rip. HD, DVD, raw capture, whatever…

Can anyone help out?

Claire De Lune was restored and appears on the Fantasia Legacy DVD (the 3rd disc in the 3-disc version)... but that's probably where you planned on getting it from.

I believe MattMahdi is correct.  You need separate title sets (VTS's).  You can't have one program anamorphic and the other non-anamorphic in the same VTS.

Is it just me, or does he have a massive sync problem there.

While I won't actually be doing this as I proposed in the first post, I thought I'd give you a heads up to what I am actually doing.

Using two different sources (so I can correct glitches), I am cutting together different recordings of the Comic Con table read, converting it to DVD, and subtitling.

It's tedious, but necessary since the audio is really poor.  If there is interest I'll let you all know when there is a finished disc.

It's the perfect disc 5 for anyone with the boxset since it ties up the story threads from the season (and is riddled with callback gags).

Doing this to the comic might be nice, but that would actually mean doing terrible damage to the comic in order to scan it (besides lots of aftereffects work to make it a dynamic watchable experience).

Edit: I guess technically this is now just a preservation project... and in the wrong section.

Edit 2: I found a copy of the script they were reading from.  I can now sub all impossible to hear dialog.  This will be 99.99% perfect now.  I also found a post table read interview that I'll be putting on the disc.