TV's Frink said:
TV's Frink said:
I think you're responsible for the teensex.net attack on my PC that Norton just blocked.
Well, there's definitely something nasty on this page, because every time I open it, Norton blocks another attack.
I think I've removed the offending image.
pat man said:
Please Moth3r and Jay if you can just combine bot 4k oled t.v. threats. and do them by time and date posted for the comments. Thank you.
Sorry, the Off Topic forum is unmoderated.
If it helps, the PDI Deluxe is called the SweetSpot in Europe.
Just to confirm, did you use the DVD recorders in "pass through" mode? I assume you connected the LD player to the DVD recorder with a composite cable, then the DVD recorder to the capture card with s-video?
Wow, that is pretty noisy. I've never seen a CD-V before, didn't realise they were so bad.
Can you try a multi-frame average - a simple TemporalSoften(2,255,255) as I did - to improve things?
Also, you say that the effect of a TBC can't be seen on a static image - this is not true at all, the effect is clear. The main advantage is that wobbly vertical lines, such as the vertical white line in the centre of the pattern, become straighter. See examples here showing what a good TBC is capable of. Very useful for VHS captures, but I don't think your TBC is helping you here.
Work-in-progress list. Titles in bold have been confirmed by originaltrilogy.com members, others are from reports elsewhere on the web.
NTSC (USA)
Star Wars: A New Hope (FOX) - SMPTE color bars on Side D
Sony XBR Laser Disc: Audio/Visual In-Store Demonstration [---]
Telling Lies in America (1997) has color bars
Halloween (Criterion Edition) has color bars
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography contains a speaker test and then color bars with tone after the film.
State Fair - Home theatre sound check + color bars at last chapter
Desk Set - Color bars and test tone at last chapter
Casablanca (Criterion) - Color bars at last chapter
Breaking the Waves - color bars
Rome, Open City - Chapters 41 & 42 are laserdisc production credit and Color Bars
Pioneer Reference Laserdisc [HE-010]
Pioneer Reference Laserdisc [GGV1069]
NTSC (Japan)
PAL (Europe)
Jason and the Argonauts - end of side 4: colour bars, pluge, grille, red patch colour bars & test card (BBC Test Card G)
DIE Video CD - CD Video, but is compatible with laserdisc players
Pioneer Reference Laserdisc [GGV1007]
Please let me know of any others you find.
Where did you download from (name the site, don't post a link) and what was the file called? Someone can maybe confirm you downloaded Harmy's original work and not a conversion.
If you want help with burning to disc, this type of general question is more suited to the How-To's and Technical Discussion forum. Feel free to start a new thread over there.
They are very rare, but I have heard that some upscaling DVD players with HDMI output were able to play "higher resolution" MPEG4 ASP (i.e. Xvid) in AVI. But most player chipsets can only manage up to 720 x 480/576.
One of our TVs is able to play such files from a USB stick, but cannot decode AVC (i.e. x264) video.
What is your DVD player make/model and does it have an HDMI output?
The difference in cross-colour artefacts (rainbows) in the subs in very clear, the Theater card is much better in this respect.
The fact that you get dropouts with the PCI card is surprising, as I always thought these were down to the disc or player. Never heard of the capture device being responsible, but there you go. Possibly a faulty card?
Do you have any discs that contain test patterns? A capture of such a pattern would be a more useful source to compare performance.
That frame on the '77 telecine:
All other flashes I checked in the duel are amber/yellow.
Assuming you're capturing in YUY2 colourspace, and have checked the "extend luma range" option in virtualdub, you are able to capture luma values in the 0-15 or 236-255 ranges.
Of course, these values will get clipped on playback to 16 or 235 so it's best to avoid the luma extending too far into these ranges.
I've read reports that the AC3 track on the Die Hard laserdisc is an accurate representation of the theatrical 70mm Dolby 6-track mix (as is the case for Alien). There's this post on alt.video laserdisc that mentions that the surround channel is mono (matching the 6-track's 4.2 configuration) and also some posts on forum.lddb.com and avsforum.com about the panning of certain effects. (However, these posts are from our eccentric jedi friend who ignores everyone, so I'm not sure how reliable this info is.)
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
AntcuFaalb said:
What might be responsible for this defect?
It looks like a video dropout. But I don't know what could cause a laserdisc player to have a dropout at the top of the frame at each scene change.
Not a dropout, as it covers two lines, possibly more through it's hard to tell with the video compression. Dropouts only affect a single line.
Historically, USB devices had a bad reputation and a PCI or PCIe card device was recommended. I've got no idea what these newer devices are like, however.
I managed to find, on a hard drive, the original RARs that were posted to Usenet . I can create additional PAR2 blocks that should help you repair what you have - send me a PM if you're intersted.
Do you have to pay extra for Star Wars T-shirts without dirt?
A denoiser is necessary if encoding to MPEG2 (for DVD) as noise hurts compression. But maybe if you encode to AVC you could leave out the denoiser?
Personally, I always use DGIndex and MPEG2Source() instead of DirectShowSource(). Guess I'm just old school.
CatBus said:
I thought crappy old 4:3 letterboxed DVDs would be hard-telecined, but maybe they just have the pulldown flag just like modern DVDs... I'll try the whole process without deinterlacing/interlacing, but still using the interpolated scale, and report back.
Even if the video is 29.97 fps hard-telecined, performing IVTC is the correct solution, it should never be deinterlaced.
:-(
Aw, Snap!
Harmy, while you'll be out tonight with your Czech beer and your Czech girls, I'm stuck at home on babysitting duty. Can you upload v2.1 for me today please? Cheers mate!
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SilverWook said:
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/07847/12096-AS/Evita-%281996%29
I can't imagine a DTS Laserdisc release for a film that didn't have DTS theatrically.
I know, but surprisingly there are a few (from a list in another thread):
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Die Hard (1988)
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
Vertigo (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
The IMDB isn't always right.
Agreed, in fact I would say that IMDb is quite often wrong!
dfnyc said in the other thread that there were problems with the BD DTS for Evita.