Molly

I found the Cinderella iso.  I'll try to get it up to my VPS and get it seeded.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Molly said:

I'm uploading the workprint BatB as captured

Looking forward to it (with original "Be our Guest" sequence, I presume)? A link-PM when it gets up'ped would be much appreciated.

It's a raw cap of everything on the discs, one video_ts folder per laserdisc side.

By the way, Molly, were you the one who uploaded the Non-Lowry Cinderella on TPB?

The infamous one indeed.

Another leecher and I are trying to aquire it, but no one is seeding; do you still have the files?

I *might*.  I've had a couple drive failures.

It really doesn't look that great though, so I've been considering going back to the capture and trying to improve the video track a bit.

Hm.  If I rifle through my recordings I might be able to find a copy or two of Academy Lady.  I'll see what I can do.

The real thing about that Song of the South I did... really, it's not all that great.  I mainly did it because I *had* the cap already (I did it almost 4 years ago), and because the topic had come up.  But it looks like hell, even with the better tools I have for dealing with poor captures than I had 4 years ago, and I can't really come up with a good menu system.

As for BatB WIP, I'm still trying to think where to put it.  I *suppose* I could use MS, but it would really make me look like a big hypocrite if I did that.

Maybe.  I just think it would be somewhat hypocritical of me to use MS given my vocal attitude toward ratio trackers...

While I doubt it's worth a release, and the temp menu I made for it is horrid, I can probably put this somewhere if anyone wants...

I'm uploading the workprint BatB as captured, I'll prolly torrent that.

I could perhaps try to redo Cinderella as I found my capture of that.  For kicks I decided to encode my rip of Song of the South but I doubt it's of any use to do so now.  (It's just the Japanese LD)

I found a raw cap of Beauty and the Beast WIP... well, as raw as my DVD recorder makes :P

As I can't find anything else, I may up the caps as they are.

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I've had trouble with VLC in the past, though usually MPlayer's worked fine.  Funny, since they use the same built-in codecs.

I thought over the comments a bit.

Yes... QuickTime Player is the one player I think none of us have tried, and historically, I've had better results with any other player.  Nor have any of us tried Windows Media Player.

I use MPlayer2, I think Gonbe uses Media Player Classic Home Cinema, and I would bet that somewhere along the line, Videolan was tested.  These work fine.

A lot of us over on my IRC network use Matroska for our main format, we encode everything with x264 and qaac or mainconcept, then put the file in an MKV container.  I don't like to use the MKV container unless I need one of its features, so I didn't - Robotech, which is single audio and single video, is encoded with x264 and mainconcept, and muxed in an mp4 (QuickTime) container.  So yes, theoretically QuickTime should be able to handle it; but practically, my experience with Apple has been mixed.

The video settings, branded into the video track by the encoding software, are as follows:

x264 - core 129 r2230 1cffe9f - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2012 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=16 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x133 me=umh subme=10 psy=1 psy_rd=1.10:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=40 chroma_me=1 trellis=2 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=0 chroma_qp_offset=-4 threads=8 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=16 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=2 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=288 keyint_min=23 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=60 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=18.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00

I used 8-bit color depth as, while using 10-bit allows for a comparable quality of video in a smaller file, many players do have issue with it still.

The file is encoded at High Profile, Level 5.0; could this be the source of problems as well?  We've never had any issue with it but some players don't seem to like 5.0 level H.264 encoding.  (Again - the ones we all use handle it just fine; props to the libavcodec folks.)

Yeah, it's been my experience that *anything* usually has better output than QuickTime for QuickTime's own formats... and this was true all the way back to the era of QuickTime 2.0, comparing Apple's player to Microsoft's...

Works for me, oddly.

That's strange.  It's regular 8-bit h.264; QuickTime should play that just fine.

I haven't played it in QuickTime though - I believe GonbeFAN usually uses Media Player Classic and I usually use MPlayer2.  I'm not sure what other players may have been used though I don't know anyone else who uses QuickTime either...

I haven't actually seen ep.36 in any form, Macross or Robotech.  Both series - as well as Southern Cross and Mospeada - are actually new to me.

Funny, I didn't see anything. o.o;  And I had several other eyes on the files before I released them, and they didn't see anything either. o.o;

The compression settings have been checked several times and I've been using them for some time with no one seeing any problems.

They're fairly high settings, too. o.o;

I only *wish* I had that edition of Cinderella.  I have its CLV counterpart.

Aladdin's video... I couldn't detect anything, supposedly some of the CG was redone... the credits were redone, yeah, but that's minimal.  The sound... well, you'd have to combine stuff, since I'm pretty sure no home video release ever had "cut off your ear".

I got both the CLVs of Cinderella, and did release an iso some time ago, but a raw rip of the CAV edition would be nice, I could better fix my blunders on that.

Also an X9 rip of Lion King and BatB - I do have these in CAV, including the BatB workprint - would probably step all over what my equipment is capable of.

xD

That redone (apart from the very beginning) in HDCG would be a sight to behold.

Perhaps someone could just alter the tracker to OpenTorrent's?  That wouldn't require a change of the data hashes.

It's on nyaa.eu and might be on other indexes by now, just the first 6 eps so far.

There's ways around that...

A friend told me a rumor about a potential release of Mospeada which I do not entirely believe, but if it does happen, then I'll be doing 61-85 in HD as well.  Otherwise, once I run out of source I'll just fall back to 480p.  (But since I keep the EDLs as separate Avisynth scripts, it may be possible to upgrade the eps as better source becomes available.)

He and another friend are looking over the 6 eps I have already done and once they're OK'd for release I'll put them on some common tracker and post the torrent on Nyaa.eu (as I usually do for my anime releases).  I'll probably have to take a short recovery break before I move on to the next 6 episodes...

I hear that a lot.

I've also heard complaints about some of the additions ruining the flow or causing issues with the dialogue (such as a "put some clothes on" moment in the Southern Cross footage that was rewritten around its removal).

Mainly it's the audio I wanted to preserve - but I followed that cut.  I'm going to try to get the first 6 eps up this weekend.

Yes, I know…Deculture’s Macross, not Robotech, but I just had to get a dig in at the Protoculture Collection and its lucasizations (which are, thankfully, mild in comparison to the disasters that happened to other series).

I’ve already got 6 episodes edited (my sources currently only cover Macross which is 36 episodes, and not the other 49 eps), though when encoding 6, I found a mistake in the encoding scripts for 3-5 and had to go back and redo them.  (Nothing big, just didn’t engage the degrainer correctly.  The Macross BluRays are a bit noisy.)

I’ve tended to jinx myself in the past which is why I wanted to make sure I had a significant number of episodes already ready already before I dared to post anything.  I’ll prolly be uploading batches to nyaa (where I use the handle sarachikorita) in 720p mp4.  I don’t have the means for avchd, so that won’t happen.  I may do isos too since this is an upgrade in quality even at 480p.

This is based on the original, 1985, monaural audio mix and the original, 1985, made for syndication TV edit - it does not and will not have the footage which was added in for the Protoculture re-edit.  It is not a perfect re-edit, although I did not take as many liberties in the editing as I did with CardCaptors.

A friend of mine did the end credits, but I added the rest of the onscreen text myself.

I did make a new version of the logo that shows off the 720p-ness of it:

I don’t know if it’s the fault of the masters, or my source, but a lot of these episodes are also horribly zoomed in.  I am not recreating that.

Ah.  I have a friend with Freeview and a friend with a dish, and I've had direct TS rips from both of them of the same program and there's a real big difference both in picture and sound between the two.  Still, I guess it's still an improvement over what I'm guessing is videotape caps from analog cable, until itv4 gets around to reairing those eps.

Sure, fire away.

I got good results off GonbeFAN's TS, but his is satellite (it wouldn't come out as good working from Freeview).  He and I might both be interested in something like that.