Molly

CatBus said:

poita said:

Davinci Lite is free and is great for high bit depth work, and is apparently used by pretty ladies. 

Something... wrong... with her ponytail.  Can't figure it out.

It's that weird bend around the neck point.

Hey, I like Dido.  "Thank You" was way overplayed though (blame Eminem for that).

If it was animated Academy, then usually any 4:3 version is Academy (and open matte if theatrical OAR was widescreen).

I fell into luck: Boomerang UK's still airing it, and my friend in Portugal's able to cap for me.

While not perfect, from Puto's test cap and with a little help from GonbeFAN, I now have a reasonable-quality copy of the OP without the edits.

I'm able to do a mostly passable job getting rid of the station logo, too.  Hopefully x264 compression will fudge out the artifacts a bit more.

I didn't.  But I didn't bother to look as I didn't have any reason I should expect to find anything better than some cruddy, 10-year-old xvid rips, since that seems to be all that usually turns up on public trackers.

I'd be interested in seeing if there is indeed, as I've been led to believe, a full Japanese dub of The Little Mermaid that has the "goran nasai" version of Part of Your World rather than the "yoku mite" version.

Yeah, they aired them on Boomerang/CN.

I'd like to avoid random xvid rips if I can help it.

Hm.  That might make for a decent copy of the original OP too, if it's on the LD...

Yeah, mostly.

I’ve thought about this since being able to source the R1s…

I’m wondering about the possibility of sourcing the 9 eps missing from the R1s, and maybe the correct opening…

ANSI does have umlauts though.

Ä = 0xC4
Ö = 0xD6
Ü = 0xDC
ä = 0xE4
ö = 0xF6
ü = 0xFC
ß = 0xDF

I think those are the same code points as Unicode.

What may help is to put a utf-8 byte order mark (the three bytes EF BB BF) at the beginning of the file?

There's no format change when you put a subtitle stream into an mkv.

I'd just like a barebones but high quality set with the three original movies in their original form with all their original mixes.  Just that.

Carly Rae Jepsen?  Yeesh.

I still like the R2J's "Part of Your World" by Miki Imai.

ww12345 said:

I think Molly was making fun of the fact that '50s-'80s Eastman prints suck as far as color fade and QC. We film collectors lovingly refer to films on Eastman stock as spectacular "Crimsonvision" or beautiful "Magentacolor."

:D

...yeah.  "LOL" because Eastman stock is infamously bad.

LOL EASTMAN PRINTS

monks19 said:

No, unfortunately. The source master might be from a 23.97 fps, but the dvd, once ripped, clearly indicate the fps at 29.97 (checked with both tmpgenc,  TsMuxer & DVD FAB).

Don't all NTSC DVDs say that, even if they're 23.976?

...oy.

I have "Rock, Rhythm and Blues" with some of that content.

Oy.

This is annoying me all the more the more I find out. :@

It's "Header Removal Compression" they don't like, right?  That's a checkbox option in MMG that can be turned off.

It would hold up, because Berne Convention.

Probably.  VERY probably.

Doctor M said:

@Molly: If you're referring to it being a malware site?  That has supposedly been sorted out... or have you heard something else?

Edit: Oh you mean...

Dunno, there's no proof one way or another.  If it is, it's a really bad one since they already HAVE everyone's information and emails.

Basically the malware thing - I very quickly decided to treat the site as a hoax, stay away from it and recommend others to do so as well.

Yeah, I had a Demonoid login.