Moth3r

I was close to crying when ET snuffed it. But then I was only about 8 or 9 at the time.

My mates girlfriend blubbed at the end of Schindler's List. What a wuss!

I can't watch Bambi without being reminded of the episode of The Young Ones.

I've not really played with this sort of stuff yet, but I'm guessing that tsMuxer is just a muxing utility - the clue is in the name! :)

So if your ts files are in MPEG-2, you will need to reencode to H.264/AVC format (x264 should be suitable).

Even if the ts files are already in H.264 like Howard the Duck, you will probably still need to reencode to fit on a DVD9.

What was the callsign for the Rebel base on Yavin's moon during the first Death Star battle?

Base One

Also: use my proton torpedo next round pls.

negative1 said:

10) so i can go back, and delete all of them, when we start getting

legal threats from Lucasfilm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No.

Sample video looks pretty good. OK it's not going to match the GOUT DVD, but it looks like it will far surpass the quality of previous fan-made telecines. In that respect, this will be a fantastic reference to have for things like Greedo's subtitles, canyon sunset colouring, etc...

Couple of questions about the sample: Motion was a little jerky; I assume you will be removing the dupe frames to revert back to 24fps? Also, it looks a little over-exposed to me, can you do anything about that during the capture (or would you adjust it in post)? The black level looks about 10% higher than it should be (space is a sort of dark grey instead of black).

So at the moment you have uncompressed video in AVI format?

My suggestion: get VirtualDub, Xvid (which is an MPEG-4 codec) and the LAME ACM Codec. Load your original AVI into VirtualDub. Set video -> compression -> Xvid and set to a single pass, target quantizer of around 4 (?) (lower quantizer = better quality/larger size). Set audio -> compression > LAME abr around 192kbps.

Now save out a new AVI.

What's the underlying color of R2D2's head dome?

Silver.

tsMuxer?

http://www.bitburners.com/articles/create-avchd-discs-with-subtitles-using-tsmuxer/4047/

Moved.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

In the meantime, any suggestions for free tool(s) for converting .avi to mpeg4?

Strictly, AVI is a container format, MPEG-4 is a compression standard. You cannot convert one to the other.

What exactly did you want to do? Put MPEG-4 compressed video into an AVI file?

g-force said:

They de-interlaced before mastering the DVD. And they did a terrible job at that, as witnessed by the poor vertical resolution and jaggies compared to the laserdiscs.

They did not deinterlace (otherwise the framerate would be 29.97fps). Instead, they carried out IVTC, which is of course the correct way to do it.

Mielr said:

I noticed just as much aliasing (jaggies) on the LDs as I did on the DVDs. 

However, the fuzzier nature of the LDs (depending on the player) covers a multitude of sins. For that reason the aliasing on the LDs may be less noticeable to some.

It is true that there is a degree of aliasing present on the NTSC laserdiscs. Laserman once said he thought they were caused by a minor field misalignment in the telecine. The PAL laserdiscs which come from a different transfer are better in this respect, and don't show so much aliasing.

I'm not a professional, but it looks to me as if whoever mastered the DVDs applied a vertical blur in an attempt to mask the aliasing. Unfortunately, this not only resulted in a loss of vertical detail, but has actually made the aliasing worse in some locations.

To add insult to injury, the Region 2/4 PAL DVDs were upscaled from the NTSC master, intead of using the PAL master that the French/German laserdiscs were made from.

Who destroyed the second of the Death Star's sentry ships?

Luke, I think.

So... care to update us on your latest efforts to recreate the 6-track mix?

PaulisDead2221 said:

 I've spent the last week working on the my original six track preservation project. 

I would much rather see your preservation of the 6-track mix, than for you to give ShortRod another excuse to bump up his post count.

(j/k)

So there are no combed frames, and no duplicate frames - therefore your source is 1080p 29.97fps (unusual, but not unheard of). It was probably broadcast at 1080i.

If you convert to a NTSC DVD with the same framerate, you should not get the motion problems mentioned in the first post.

You can upload a short sample somewhere if you'd like me to take a look.

strangegods said:

Hmm, instead of burning a disc, I wanted to mount the iso and copy the  .m2ts over to my PS3. However when I try to mount it, I receive the "invalid file type" error. I installed the UDF 2.5 driver, rebooted, and even tried using another application to mount the image. I still get an error message.

I'd rather not go buy a stack of DVD 9's just for this; So does anyone have any idea's what I'm doing wrong?

 

Thanks.

What did you use to mount it? Daemon tools has problems with BD images, so possibly AVCHD too.

You could try SlySoft Virtual CloneDrive.

iRantanplan said:

The PAL version is interlaced. It has been converted from the 30fps master. Maybe that's the problem.

The PAL version is not interlaced!

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I'm assuming your VOB is 23.976fps, with 3:2 "soft" pulldown making the displayed framerate up to 29.97fps.

VirtualDubMod has not been updated for a while now, and on some occasions it can fail to recognise when a video is 23.976fps with pulldown flags.

You could try VirtualDub-MPEG2 instead, it has an option to disable pulldown.

However, if the pulldown pattern is irregular, you could end up with audio sync drift. The safest method - a little more work but worth learning in the long run - is to go DGIndex "force film" -> AviSynth script -> regular VirtualDub -> save AVI. 

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Puppet yoda.  And I thought the lightsaber duel(s) with Yoda was a huge missed opportunity.  I was expecting him to be a master of efficiency and grace - a little move here, a slight step there, and his opponent would be rendered off balance. Instead he looked looked somebody plugged him into the light socket.

Thank you Puggo, for making me smile on a Monday morning. :-)

Do you see any duplicated frames?

So is the source interlaced or telecined?

AvsP

I actually bought the Region 4 GOUT (took advantage of a glitch with CD WOW's site that let me order the DVDs with a massive discount). These discs come in clear cases, it's just a shame about the huge "PG" rating obscuring the cover artwork.

DVDs in clear cases are pretty common over here, and kids DVDs quite often come in yellow, blue or white. All Xbox games are in green cases, and Wii games have white cases.

Will stop now before you all slip into a coma. :)

I personally wouldn't use AutoGK for this. VirtualDubMod is probably the easiest to get to grips with. You'll need a lossless codec (e.g. Lagarith) as well.

Load the VOB into VirtualDubMod, go to Video->Compression, select Lagarith, and configure it to use YV12 colorspace. Select Audio->none (as you will be loading your demuxed/decoded audio separately). Then save as AVI. Do not change any other options; the output AVI will be exactly the same quality as the original DVD.