Moth3r

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Post: #224021
Topic: Help: looking for... Anyone got the 1983 ITV airing of Star Wars?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224021/action/topic#224021
Time: 3-Jul-2006 11:02 AM

I have a tape of this, don't know what year it was recorded (I think ITV showed Star Wars several times in the eighties) but I thought it was around 1982. It does not include adverts, and the beginning and end are missing.

The value of this tape is in the soundtrack, which is the rare mono mix. I captured it and synced it up to my laserdisc transfer. See:
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=3288

Personally I don't see the attraction in VHS-quality pan and scan when you can have laserdisc quality widescreen, so I didn't capture the video. (Perhaps I'm not as "nostalgic" as you lot!) I do know however that Russ made a DVD out of one of these ITV recordings with his DVD recorder.

bigrob, if you could find your tape, I know someone who'd be very interested to know how the audio compares with mine (specifically: dynamic range, signal/noise ratio and how much, if any, is missing).

Post: #224017
Topic: Can anyone recommend a good disc cleaning kit?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224017/action/topic#224017
Time: 3-Jul-2006 10:13 AM

For dirt and/or fingerprints, I just use a plain microfibre cloth - with a little spit for more stubborn grease! Always wipe in a direction perpendicular to the tracks, i.e. from the inside out, don't wipe around the disc.

Personally I don't think that sprays or solutions offer any significant beneifts, but maybe others will disagree.

Scratches, on the other hand, need a more specialist repair kit.

Post: #223925
Topic: Can DTS LD audio be captured?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223925/action/topic#223925
Time: 2-Jul-2006 5:13 PM

Probably; it's certainly possible to capture AC3 off laserdisc.

This thread at doom9 may be useful:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=52692

Post: #223917
Topic: The New Doctor Who
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223917/action/topic#223917
Time: 2-Jul-2006 4:16 PM

Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
Seeing the 'Rise Of The Cybermen' double-episode in the current series made me want to see 'The Tenth Planet' from the Hartnell years.

I've been looking into this as well. Too young to remember the Hartnell period, but I had the Target paperback of The Tenth Planet. Unfortunately, episode 4 has been lost, so it's unlikely to ever be seen again. Eps. 1-3 may be available as bootlegs, but I've not seen them.

Post: #223405
Topic: Automating the creation of travelling mattes?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223405/action/topic#223405
Time: 30-Jun-2006 3:56 AM

Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
Thanks again, Moth3r!

What for?

Post: #222680
Topic: Garbled Huffyuv AVIs after Windows re-install
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222680/action/topic#222680
Time: 28-Jun-2006 4:43 AM

I've had this happen before, only I can't remember how I resolved it!

Which version of huffyuv did you use to originally encode the file? I think that 2.2.0 is buggy, but it will crash rather than produce garbled output. I use v2.1.1 CCESP Patch v0.25 - I don't exactly know what the patch is for.

It's also possibly a result of encoding with the wrong field threshold. Try changing the value from 240 to 480.

You could also try the ffdshow huffyuv decoder. Go into the VFW codec configuration and set the libavcodec as the decoder for huffyuv.

Post: #222521
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222521/action/topic#222521
Time: 27-Jun-2006 5:44 PM

If I may just go on an ocpmovie-style quoting spree:

Originally posted by: zombie84
considering its just a stupid 700MB DIVX file i doubt it even matters.

Originally posted by: vbangle
...it's almost like someone is trying to give the X0 project a bad name.

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
... it's a low-res, downconverted, uncorrected DivX version with timecode. Good luck making a decent transfer from that. LOL! Originally posted by: Grinder
Ehh.. indeed, the quality is pretty bad. Lot of compression and the downscaling hasn't helped either.

^
All the above are missing the point.

Originally posted by: Karyudo
Giddy up! Any judgement of video quality aside, the timecode is SMPTE-style, and therefore looks like it can be very useful in referencing individual frames of the film! Whether this is X0 Project official stuff or not (and I'd have to imagine that somehow it is??) this looks to be a great, great tool for hardcore preservationists!

and to quote my own post back in October 2005:

Originally posted by: Moth3r
The timecoded version is a great idea, not just for your purposes but in general to identify how long each shot should be ... and where frames are missing ... Also it will be a valuable tool for assisting with audio sync.

This file is not meant to whet your appetite for the quality of the X0 transfer. It's a reference, a useful tool for those in the preservation community that might need it. Fake or not, as long as the reference is there, it doesn't matter. (Why has it taken 8 months for this to be released?

)

Post: #222388
Topic: The New Doctor Who
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222388/action/topic#222388
Time: 27-Jun-2006 9:28 AM

Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
Re. Earth-bound Doctor Who, I was disappointed by the Cybermen double episode. A few minutes in I was thinking "oh great, he thinks they're on a parrallel Earth but it's going to turn out to be Mondas".

Nope.

Earth.

Again. Well, the "real" Mondas disintegrated in 1986. I wonder if there is a "parallel" Mondas?

Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
I don't recall there being any tradition of changing the TARDIS to suit the Doctor. I think it just changes when the designers get bored with the current design.

Well yes. But this was retconned in "School Reunion", where Sarah Jane Smith enters the TARDIS and remarks to the tenth Doctor - "you've redecorated!"

Post: #222322
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222322/action/topic#222322
Time: 27-Jun-2006 4:00 AM

Saw the Italy/Australia highlights on the BBC, and their take was (to paraphrase) that the Italians are cheating bastards, but the Australian defender should have known better than to go to ground and make it easier for the attacker to fall over him.

Post: #222319
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222319/action/topic#222319
Time: 27-Jun-2006 3:46 AM

The timecode print was described in newsletter #2.

I think it's good that this is being shared, now everyone has a common reference point for the movie. This will help in discussing defects, differences between sources, audio synchronization projects, etc.

Post: #221958
Topic: Info & Help Wanted: [<( The Star Wars Trailers Project )>]
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221958/action/topic#221958
Time: 26-Jun-2006 4:22 PM

Originally posted by: SKot
I think that trailer made the point for widescreen over pan & scan pretty well. Do you know the date for that? I didn't spot a date in the trailer itself.

The trailer is for the 1991 Special Widescreen Edition.

Reading the observation Russ made about the time stretching, that would explain why this trailer was interlaced. It looks like an NTSC video source was converted to PAL in such a way so that the audio remained unchanged. (This is why the file I uploaded sounds slightly low-pitched, I slowed it down to convert to NTSC).

Post: #221909
Topic: This ticks me off...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221909/action/topic#221909
Time: 26-Jun-2006 11:51 AM

Ingo Sucks: you do not deserve any of these discs, because you're too stupid.

Now, please: STOP POSTING.

Post: #221886
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221886/action/topic#221886
Time: 26-Jun-2006 9:46 AM

And here's what David Beckham thinks of German food:

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/fifa/gen/fifa/20060625/i/2449045484.jpg

Post: #221885
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221885/action/topic#221885
Time: 26-Jun-2006 9:43 AM

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2476/gonein600hg.jpg

Post: #221881
Topic: Info & Help Wanted: [<( The Star Wars Trailers Project )>]
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221881/action/topic#221881
Time: 26-Jun-2006 9:13 AM

Widescreen video trailer, converted to NTSC, in XviD format for downloading:
http://s10.quicksharing.com/v/7629246/trailer.avi.html

Sorry about the quality; not only was the tape it came from in quite bad shape, but the source was dark, interlaced and noisy (sample frame). Perhaps someone has this on a tape that has not deteriorated so much?

Post: #221691
Topic: The New Doctor Who
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221691/action/topic#221691
Time: 25-Jun-2006 5:14 PM

Not seen the "Love & Monsters" episode yet then?

Post: #221191
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221191/action/topic#221191
Time: 23-Jun-2006 10:15 AM

Many thanks for putting this up, Zion, and thanks for a high quality DivX encode.

I believe this is the first time that actual moving video from the X0 capture has been seen by those outside the project?

I was impressed with the absence of noise in the X0 capture. I remember Laserman explaining the build quality of the player minimises analogue video noise, and that is clearly the case in this clip.

Unfortunately the aspect ratio of the video is off, it seems that the vertical resolution has been compressed when it should have been stretched. (Or was that just so that the before and after could be shown in the splitscreen arrangement?)

Well done with the clean up process.

However, it is interesting to compare the "before" shot against a capture from the French laserdiscs. A few of the speckles appear in the same frames in both transfers. The PAL version has one large orange blob that the NTSC version doesn't have. On the whole, however, this shot is much cleaner on the PAL disc.

I would love to know the history behind the creation of the laserdisc masters. I hope that the PAL master - which seems to be superior apart from the horrible burn marks in the Tantive corridor - is going to be used for the new PAL DVDs.

Post: #221154
Topic: Problem Burning OCPmovie's Classic Editions
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221154/action/topic#221154
Time: 23-Jun-2006 3:43 AM

Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Re: alternatives to Nero
I like Jorg Schilling's open-source mkisofs and his freeware cdrecord-ProDVD but I'm running Linux so your mileage may vary....

ImgTool Classic is primarily a GUI for mkisofs. So yes, I like it too.

Post: #220787
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220787/action/topic#220787
Time: 22-Jun-2006 7:29 AM

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
EDIT: This is totally random, but I'm bored and I was thinking: Let's say a striker beats the keeper (dribbles round him perhaps) then blasts the ball at the goal. It's dead on target, and going fast. The nearest defender is too far away to get a foot to it. It's 100% going to be a goal. But then the defender decides if he can't get his feet to it he's gonna try a different tactic and he dives across the goalmouth, saving the ball with his hands. The ball doesn't go in. What would happen? Would the ref give the goal? Or would he give a penalty for a handball in the box? Considering a penalty has a chance of being saved, it doesn't seem fair, but what are the rules on this? And has it ever happened?

Penalty, and the defender gets sent off for a deliberate hand ball to deny an obvious goal-scoring opportunity.

Post: #220636
Topic: Backing Up Fan Discs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220636/action/topic#220636
Time: 21-Jun-2006 4:11 PM

Originally posted by: andy_k_250

Originally posted by: Moth3r

Originally posted by: Moth3r
Use DVD Decrypter to rip an ISO, then burn that (you can use DVD Decrypter to burn as well).

Can DVD Decrypter create an ISO from files already on the pc (say from downloading a torrent)?

No, use Imgtool classic to create your image file from your DVD folders.

Post: #220547
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220547/action/topic#220547
Time: 21-Jun-2006 11:48 AM

Originally posted by: maddog00
Owens ruled out of tourney

That's no good.

On the other hand, it might be a blessing in disguise...

In 1990, England were forced into changing their formation due to the injury to Bryan Robson. We did quite well that year as I recall.

Post: #220504
Topic: Backing Up Fan Discs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220504/action/topic#220504
Time: 21-Jun-2006 5:39 AM

Originally posted by: Moth3r
Use DVD Decrypter to rip an ISO, then burn that (you can use DVD Decrypter to burn as well).

Post: #220503
Topic: What to do to improve the picture?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220503/action/topic#220503
Time: 21-Jun-2006 5:38 AM

Distortion on some lines at the bottom of the picture is head switching noise, and is quite normal and normally cropped out.

I've seen other posts about problems at the top of the picture, and I think it's specific to the tape/player. See if the same effect occurs on different tapes played on the same player, or try this tape in another player.

Post: #220158
Topic: 1977 70mm soundtrack recording (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220158/action/topic#220158
Time: 20-Jun-2006 4:16 AM

morgands1, I forgot to thank you for making this available, and proper respects for the left/right channel initiative.

Also, someone sent me this sample, from a mono cassette recording. Aside from being in mono, I don't know how it would compare with a synced and fixed version of your recording.

It might be interesting to put a mono downmix of the left/right tracks of the '93 mix side by side with this mono theatre recording to compare - purely for content.

Post: #219971
Topic: 1977 70mm soundtrack recording (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219971/action/topic#219971
Time: 19-Jun-2006 3:57 PM

Somehow I can't imagine it would be that easy.

The eye is more easily fooled than the ear. Syncing audio to video is much less onerous, a mis-sync of 30-40ms can go unnoticed by most people. Syncing two audio sources is more difficult, a tiny amount out generates an effect called "phasing". While this is used for cool effect by DJs playing dance music, it's not something you want to achieve here.

Not trying to piss on your bonfire, but coupled with the fact that a professional audio engineer is doubtful that it can be done, I'm just sceptical about your "piece of cake" claim.

But hey, don't let that stop you, I could be talking crap. Grab one of the MP3 files and have a play with a short section. If you can get a phase accurate left/right sync, then I'll take it back.