Moth3r

Harmy said:

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And ask away. I think a v3.0 is inevitable in time, although I'd probably be starting more or less from scratch.

Back in October I said I had a couple of suggestions for improvements if you ever did a v3.0. Here now are my belated thoughts - but I stress again that v2.5 is an incredible achievement and this should be taken as constructive criticism...

The first is a problem inherent to Lowry's cleanup of the films for the 2004 masters:

The red lights at the far end of the corridor have a piercing intensity that just looks photographically unnatural.

Here's the same frame from the GOUT DVD for comparison:

There are several examples of this, e.g. the red reflections off C3PO's body here:

And blue here:

GOUT frames for reference:

This has been discussed at length before, basically Lowry's algorithm seems to have taken any highlights with a bit of colour, decided that they are obscured by film dust/dirt and given them a huge unnatural boost. The same process was responsible for the magenta blaster flashes and Luke's green lightsabre.

I'm not sure if there's an easy fix to the damage inflicted by this shoddy cleanup.

The second issue though you probably can do something about - compression artefacts. I was surprised and a little disappointed that there was noticeable artefacting in a 11GB video encode. I go back to the death star control room (but there are a few other places where it is particularly noticeable), look at the macroblocking on the wall and hand, and the mosquito noise around the lights:

For comparison, here is a screenshot from a 1080p HDTV encode that is only 8GB:

Did you use x264 for the encoding, or some other encoder?

analog said:

One step in between - you have to de-mux the mkv to have the .mp4 video and audio tracks, which then import into tsmuxer.

I think you mean raw (.h264) video - you do not need to mux into .mp4.

Oh yes, I see the problem now.

I can't really see much wrong with the image, but the audio problem is possibly due to dirty heads.

Try this:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/How-to-Manually-Clean-Your-VCR-Heads/165

No matter how old you are, a cardboard tube from the inside of a roll of wrapping paper is a lightsabre.

AntcuFaalb said:

005: Certain explosions/flashes during reel #1 of ANH arrive one frame early (or late) in the 97SE.

I discovered these by running a scene-change-detection algorithm on reel #1 of GOUT and 97SE (TB) and diff'ing the results.

Are these one-frame differences something you're interested in recording?

Just noticed this post - I guess my observation above is one example of these recompositions.

Can anyone confirm this one: GOUT SW Frame 5702 (I think) - flash frame starts and ends one frame earlier in the 2004 version?

The LD-V8000 and the CLD-1010 are two players that are said to have great video performance and can be picked up much cheaper than some of the high-end players (CLD-97, CLD-99, etc.)

All the information you need is in the first post of this thread.

Hint: there is a big clue in the Ric Olie Observation Thread.

Tack said:

SilverWook said:

Of course, the number of sitcoms and tv shows that have used ACC for their holiday episode is nearly impossible to measure.

 Oh, we're only counting straight adaptations, don't worry.

 So, no Blackadder's Christmas Carol then?

I'm not a huge fan of Godzilla films, but I thought the premise is always that the monster attacks real cities (originally Tokyo, Osaka, etc.)

If you're going to depict a fictional city with buildings that defy the laws of physics, you may as well have it attack Gotham City or Springfield.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief

DuracellEnergizer said:

What causes rainbow colours to show up in striped objects in B&W films/TV shows played on a regular TV?  

High-frequency luminance information in a composite video signal results in chrominance cross-talk, due to imperfect luminance/chrominance separation in the comb filter.

Thanks - I've used that to update the first post.

Bingowings said:

ABC isn't entirely banned even with the hiccup over his Leguman persona.

 He locked himself out of that account as well.

Dear Hollywood,

Please note that the structural stability of most tall buildings is dependent on the central service core.

If this core is damaged or removed, the whole building will collapse.

You Fail Physics Forever.

Over-processed VHS source?

There's a Song.Of.The.South.DVDRip.x264.AC3-VAiN up on Piratebay. Anyone know anything about this (is is a rip from one of the DVDs mentioned here)?

Some screens:

You may...

I haven't really read the thread but I assume it's a vaporware project.

The Sun Always Shines on TV's Frink

Do You Really Want to Harmy

Doctor M the House

Ask here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Request-an-invite-to-MySpleenorg-here-read-the-first-post-for-important-information/topic/8592/

No problem with the audio here. What are you using to play these files?

Also follow the link in my signature.

Troll banning/thread bumping

You have probably already noticed, but coltonlolz has now been banned for repeatedly bumping old threads with pointless or irrelevant posts. He was given several warnings about his behavior which he ignored.

Request from the moderation team: in future if you see this kind of activity, please notify one of us (SilverWook, Moth3r or Anchorhead) in a PM instead of posting a response in the bumped thread. Additional posts in a bumped thread just make extra work for us when deleting posts.

Sock puppet accounts/username spoofing

You may also have noticed an account with username spoofed to look like coltonlolz's. This spoofing was a result of someone exploiting a vulnerability in the forum software (which, incidentally, has now been fixed). Although the accounts looked identical, they were completely separate, and nobody who created an account through this bug was able to access the true account's posts or messages, or cause any real harm other than confusing the user base.

Last time this happened I threatened to ban the main account associated with future sock puppet accounts - and this would have happened to AnctuFaalb, had he not owned up of his own accord and posted a public apology.

From this point on, no more sock puppet accounts. The two long-standing account that slipped through the net have now been dealt with, and any future socks will result in the banning of both the sock and the main account.

Bingowings said:

Barbie doll crotch alert!

Barbie wears unremovable underwear these days.