Moth3r

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Join date: 26-Oct-2004
Last activity: 16-Jul-2017
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Post: #90666
Topic: Moth3r's OT.com forum enhancement filter!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90666/action/topic#90666
Time: 29-Jan-2005 2:38 PM

Originally posted by: Wer-Al_Zwowe
It unfortunataly doesn't work with 100% of his posts. I think quotes block the filtering in some way.

Do you mean that if someone quotes him then you can still see the quoted text of his post? Just tell the offending poster not to quote him!

I've also noticed that the "byte limit" needs to be increased to block some of the really long posts.

Post: #90559
Topic: Help Wanted: an MP3 of the 1.0 mono mix from the pre-ANH projects?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90559/action/topic#90559
Time: 28-Jan-2005 5:21 PM

I rescued the mono capture from my recycle bin.

I've made a 50MB 64kbps single-channel MP3, split into 3 rar files, hosted on a free file host (with adverts and waiting times).

The urls are here. Good luck! (Just realised they'll probably take it down soon because I've broken the split files rule...)

Post: #90509
Topic: Idea: What I'd put on my own "ultimate classic edition" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90509/action/topic#90509
Time: 28-Jan-2005 5:21 AM

Originally posted by: Molly
Here's what I'd put on my own "ultimate classic edition" of the OOT:
...

* Original audio track if available (for Star Wars, at least the mono mix; if possible also the stereo and 6.0 mixes), plus 1985 and 1993 remixes.

As Neil mentioned in another thread, "good luck in finding that one"!

Technically, the six-channel soundtrack was actually 4.2 - the surround channel was in mono and there were two LFE channels. Even if you could steal a 70mm film reel, the audio would need converting to 5.1 to be compatible with current home theater surround sound systems.

Post: #90504
Topic: Help Wanted: an MP3 of the 1.0 mono mix from the pre-ANH projects?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90504/action/topic#90504
Time: 28-Jan-2005 2:46 AM

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=1514

I've now deleted this off my hard drive because I thought no-one was interested!

I can easily re-record it; however, I'm sure there are people out there who have a better quality source than I do.

Post: #90264
Topic: Usenet tutorial?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90264/action/topic#90264
Time: 27-Jan-2005 3:09 AM

Your brother certainly runs an interesting site there Skip...

But does he know you're making a keygen available for download? My suggestion is to remove that part and ask members to PM you if they need help with registering. Don't want to attract unwanted attention.

Otherwise, I think it's good, Usenet is a great resource sadly under-used (as evidenced in Revs post).

you should give

a.b.starwars

a try

Really? And there was me thinking that was an MP3 group...

Post: #89984
Topic: Moth3r's OT.com forum enhancement filter!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89984/action/topic#89984
Time: 26-Jan-2005 3:21 PM

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Post: #89891
Topic: Moth3r's OT.com forum enhancement filter!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89891/action/topic#89891
Time: 26-Jan-2005 7:44 AM

Currently beta testing... but I guarantee that this will make your OT.com forum experience more enjoyable!

1. Download and install the "Proxomitron" web-filtering proxy.
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.html
(This program is primarily intended to block adverts, pop-up scripts, etc.. Luckily, here at OT.com we don't have such annoyances, so in the guide below I've recommended that these options are not needed.)

2. Set the program up as follows:

http://img199.exs.cx/img199/2876/image16oq.jpg

(To use web filtering only.)

http://img199.exs.cx/img199/9442/image28al.jpg

(Deactivate all the default filters - they could potentially cause problems with other sites if you leave them active.)

Click on "New" to create a new filter:

http://img194.exs.cx/img194/5461/image30qi.jpg

Copy and paste the following text into the "Matching Expression" box:
<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="97%">*<b>DanielB</b>[br]*<img src="i/dominant/trans.gif" border="0" height="2" width="1">[br]

:: EDIT - Damn forum software. You need to manually change the square brackets in the two instances of [br] above to HTML-style braces < >.

leave the "Replacement Text" blank.

Ensure this new filter is active, and press OK.

3. Set your browser to use a proxy server for HTTP; use the address "localhost" and port "8080".
(Should work equally as well with IE or Firefox).

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/3843/image41pb.jpg

4. Make sure Proxomitron is running, and continue to browse the forum. If everything is working, you should find your enjoyment of the forum is substantially enhanced. Please post your testimonials below...

Post: #89877
Topic: Usenet tutorial?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89877/action/topic#89877
Time: 26-Jan-2005 3:05 AM

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Yeah, regular ISPs sometimes drop some of the parts (there could be over 100), or don't keep the posts after a few days.

Several ISPs have opted to drop the high-traffic groups from their free service in order to get better completion and retention on the remaining groups. My ISP's Usenet feed is therefore quite reliable - but no a.b.dvd for me.

Post: #89077
Topic: Usenet tutorial?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89077/action/topic#89077
Time: 24-Jan-2005 3:14 AM

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
First of all, find Forte Free Agent.

I tried out Forte a year or two ago, it's good for reading and posting to the text groups, but for the binaries I prefer Grabit (free) or Newsbin Pro ($35).

You will find a decent tutorial at http://www.slyck.com/ng.php.

Interesting little point: the reason I started learning how to use newsgroups, back in 2002, was because I read that DrGonzo was at the time posting SVCD versions of the SW trilogy!

Post: #89091
Topic: Am I the only one who prefers the old ewok music?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89091/action/topic#89091
Time: 24-Jan-2005 2:02 AM

No, I think that's this one.

Post: #88490
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88490/action/topic#88490
Time: 22-Jan-2005 2:15 PM

I hear you MeBe, I'm not a big fan of torrents myself; if it takes me 14 hours to download a DVDR from a torrent site, I have to upload for at least 80 hours to get my ratio back up to 1!

Post: #88034
Topic: Am I the only one who prefers the old ewok music?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88034/action/topic#88034
Time: 20-Jan-2005 11:27 PM

I always associate "Yub yub" as the music that played when you were entering your initials in the high score table of the arcade game. So yeah, I didn't like the new music.

Post: #88027
Topic: Who has caved?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88027/action/topic#88027
Time: 20-Jan-2005 8:39 PM

Option #4? I downloaded the XviDs. Just wanted to check the quality out of curiousity. I've not watched them.

Post: #87449
Topic: Capture Card Comparison
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87449/action/topic#87449
Time: 19-Jan-2005 3:54 AM

Originally posted by: Laserman
That is the whole point of using a card like the PDI deluxe, it had much better combing filters than the ones built into the LD players, that is why you should come out via composite if using a good capture system, or via S-Video if using a crappy capture system but a decent player.

Yes the chipset in the PDI card features a 4-line adaptive comb filter ("adaptive" I think means the same as "3D", i.e. it also considers adjacent frames as well as just 4 lines from one frame, to get better results during motion). The output from this chipset then goes to a BT878 video decoder!

Unfortunately using the composite on the D925 is of no benefit (as mentioned in another thread), because apparently the player uses it's own comb filter to split the signal before processing, and the composite output is just the chroma and luma of the s-video combined.

Post: #87447
Topic: ***The "official" Screenshots feedback thread ***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87447/action/topic#87447
Time: 19-Jan-2005 3:42 AM

Glad to see the site back up. My shots 11-15 seem to have gone, but not to worry, I'll have all shots updated pretty soon.

So my page works for you now? It's still not ideal, I'd like to know how to preload all images when a new scene is selected.

Yes Doom9's page is pretty clever, the only gripe I have is that the zoom is a basic point-sampling "digital" zoom which gives a blocky result, I would prefer to see something like a bi-cubic zoom that more accurately represents what it would look like on an analogue TV. But maybe that's too much to do in Javascript.

Post: #87463
Topic: For those of you looking for TPM on DVD...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87463/action/topic#87463
Time: 19-Jan-2005 1:21 AM

And the PAL version has less EE.

Hmmm... wonder if Magnoliafan would consider doing a PAL version of Balance of the Force?

Post: #87076
Topic: Good capture cards - recommendations?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87076/action/topic#87076
Time: 18-Jan-2005 3:39 AM

So the obvious question is, what happens inside the 2950?

Post: #87075
Topic: Capture Card Comparison
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87075/action/topic#87075
Time: 18-Jan-2005 3:14 AM

I am using a BT878 card, and although there are minor combing artefacts on my captures (example), it's nowhere near as bad as the middle image on jonstamos' page.

This is using the s-video input, and therefore the 3-line digital comb filter in the player (D925) is in use. If I use the composite, the combing is much worse; see the images in this thread.

Post: #86948
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86948/action/topic#86948
Time: 17-Jan-2005 2:57 PM

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
I have the ANH sountrack on two LPs, but no functional record player to play it on.

Completely off-topic, but I remember reading a web page by some guy who claimed he could rip the audio off a record by using a flatbed scanner! I don't know if it was a hoax or not, but it looked believable.

:: EDIT - Here you go, make up your own mind!

Post: #86898
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86898/action/topic#86898
Time: 17-Jan-2005 10:56 AM

Originally posted by: Darth Simon
... 33" record from the early 80's

That's a bloody big record... my turntables will only play records up to 12" in diameter!

Post: #86877
Topic: Good capture cards - recommendations?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86877/action/topic#86877
Time: 17-Jan-2005 5:34 AM

fwibbler, in case you didn't know, the PDI Deluxe is called SweetSpot in PAL-land.

Post: #86875
Topic: Info Wanted: any other Laserdisc to dvd forums?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86875/action/topic#86875
Time: 17-Jan-2005 5:13 AM

Don't forget the forums at Doom9 are a good source of information, in particular Capturing Video and Avisynth Usage, you will also find inforamtion about MPEG-2 encoding and DVD authoring there. But I don't think anyone would object if you asked general questions in here, we're quite friendly, really.

Post: #86720
Topic: Good capture cards - recommendations?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86720/action/topic#86720
Time: 16-Jan-2005 4:14 PM

Originally posted by: fwibbler
It needs to capture at full DVD resolution and in AVI format. New capture cards will, but the rest of your PC must be pretty fast or you will get dropped frames (esp. CPU and hard drive).

Originally posted by: fwibbler
I don't like the idea of a card like the Hauppauge PVRs that only capture in MPEG as I want to convert the NTSC footage to PAL format which will require a re-encode (and thus more loss of detail). I'd agree that capturing to AVI (huffyuv or mjpeg) is preferable; but why would you want to convert NTSC to PAL? Most European DVD players will play NTSC just fine.

Originally posted by: fwibbler
Cards i've already tried are:
ATI All-In-Wonder 9600XT - This worked fine except would only capture in Black and White via the S-Video input.
ATI All-In-Wonder 9800SE - Same problem as above which is really annoying as the picture quality was quite good, as above. TBH this sounds more like a PAL/NTSC format mixup than a problem with the cards.
Originally posted by: fwibbler
MSI TV @nywhere Master - This worked fine but the picture quality wasn't really good enough (it's only a cheapish card) even through S-video.

My card is about the cheapest you can get (OK it doesn't have a tuner, which is one of the reasons why it's so cheap) but I'm happy with the results I'm getting so far.
Originally posted by: fwibbler
I know I could probably get a better quality film if I bought one from someone here who has already done the work and with better Equipment than I have here (Pioneer CLD925)...

You can't get a better PAL player than the D925! (Well, maybe the 2950, but that's up for debate...)
Originally posted by: fwibbler
...but I have the LD player and I have the time, and as this is something that I have an interest in, I'd like to have a go myself and see what results I can get.

Welcome aboard!

Post: #86253
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86253/action/topic#86253
Time: 14-Jan-2005 4:05 AM

@MeBeJedi - if your router supports uPnP then you could try using BitComet - it has an autoconfig option for port mapping.

Post: #86251
Topic: Info: What do you think of Lowry's work for the DVD release of the Indiana Jones Trilogy?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86251/action/topic#86251
Time: 14-Jan-2005 3:32 AM — Edited 1-Jul-2020 9:34 PM

Originally posted by: Wer-Al_Zwowe
That’s because mr. Lucas and his team screwed up the colors before sending the movies to Lowry.

It appears you are correct, a bloke called Rick Dean who’s a director at THX was responsible for re-timing the colour on ANH (source). But it’s only fair to blame Lowry for faults like the obliteration of the laser bolt glows and the starfield.

Mod Edit: a working link to the linked article above can be found here:-

https://web.archive.org/web/20041207162619/http://uemedia.net/CPC/directorsworld/printer_10457.shtml

(‘Restoring the Star Wars Trilogy’ - by Matt Hurwitz. Oct 14, 2004, 00:33)