Moth3r

Look guys, please:

MySpleen invite requests - see here
How to use torrents - ask in a new thread here
Hair products and Judy Garland - off topic forum here

Just a gentle reminder that drifting off topic is a sanctionable offence.

Please try and keep discussions in this thread restricted to information and feedback for DJ's theatrical versions project.

TV's Frink said:

^That doesn't work, he spelled it right (and notice I already have that thread in the list).  I'm looking for when he said "colars," which I can't even find with a google search.

I think either he's been misquoted, or he's edited the post to correct the error.

First mention of "colars" is on 22 Dec 2010, here. (Search tip: to find a misspelling with a Google search, precede the word with a "+" sign.)

Thanks for the raw clip, Puggo - I fancy having a play with it as well.

Moth3r said:

Well done?

Utterly irrelevant to this topic, BTW.

AuggieBenDoggie said:

 

... I have been told that Sony doesn't support Piracy, so they don't include the mpeg codecs that fan edits use on their players. Mpeg codecs are not all the same, even if they are dvd compliant. If I'm not mistaken Ady uses Directshow pro for all of his encoding, and those mpeg codecs it uses are not supported my SONY.

This is bollocks.

And off topic. If you want to discuss players and formats, please use the Technical Discussions forum.

Jetrell Fo said:

Do I use notepad for the script and what do I save it as so AviSynth reads it properly?

Thanks 

Just save the text file from notepad with the AVS extension.

This may help too:
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Getting_started

If you want an editor that is tailored specifically for AviSynth scripts, try AvsPmod. Much more flexible than Notepad, you can preview the video without having to use a media player or VirtualDub.

Sample images:

Asaki said:

Moth3r said:

The aliasing and DVNR are still present of course.

 This is only the Coffret capture, then?

No, it's NTSC, I believe from the 1993 Definitive Collection discs. The French "Coffret"was the equivalent in PAL, but the aliasing and DVNR are present to some extent on both these THX-certified releases.

There's no "policy", but it would be courteous to ask the project creator before uploading. I'm sure most of them would be fine with it.

^ Bad taste, Molly.

Many thanks Zion, uploading files of this magnitude is not a trivial undertaking.

Anyway - I've had a look at the first 1GB of file 1 (about 15 minutes). First thoughts: this is not the panacea we've all been waiting for.

Yes it is a beautiful laserdisc capture. If you have any experience with LD captures, you can appreciate the remarkably stable and noise-free image here. You can actually feel the build quality of the X0 player just by watching this play.

OK so the black level is too high, but that's easily fixable. In fact, the banding I see in AviSynth's histogram("classic") view suggests to me that the raw files have already had some form of levels adjustment. MeBeJedi, did you do anything else with these files apart from the IVTC?

But at the end of the day this is still only a LD capture. The amount of dot crawl present is disappointing - I remember Laserman posted a comparison with a D925 capture showing pristine edges to red areas, which I thought was down to the 3D comb filter on the PDI Deluxe card. Sadly this transfer does not appear to have been captured using the same high-quality comb filter.

The aliasing and DVNR are still present of course. There are also very occasional line drops or video dropouts, again fairly easily to fix but demonstrate that this is only a LD cap.

VirtualDubMod is outdated - I'd recommend you get the newest VirtualDub release instead, with appropriate input driver plug-ins as required.

If you're going to be working with AviSynth scripts, AvsPmod makes things much easier.

I assume you want to edit the two sources together in a single playback item on the DVD?

You didn't mention whether your 29.97fps source is real 29.97fps interlaced, 23.976fps with "hard" pulldown, or 23.976fps with pulldown implemented by repeat field flags. The way to deal with the differing frame rates depends on the exact nature of the sources.

Interesting question. There are many security camera recording apps that will start recording only when motion is detected, however in your case you have a continuous recording to scan.

I'm wondering if there's any way of using the AviSynth function MAnalyse (part of the MVTools plugin) for this? I would suggest you try asking in the Doom9 forums.

Here's one I want to have a go at someday (not just the trailer, the whole film needs a reconstruction): The Best of Martial Arts - trailer

For the past few years I've slowly been building my collection of DVDs of the various films featured.

Posts removed - please use the off topic form for general chat.

none said:

Bocce-Linguist wrote:

The issue is done and over with,  yet you had to chime in with your little one-liners....

That's what the Frink does.  This forum barely tolerates it. 

Fixed.

Darth Mallwalker said:

There's some ambiguity in the phrase "when Imgburn makes the image". It depends on which method used.
One method is to copy the image from an optical disc into a file on the hard disk. That's the (off)topic of this thread.
Another method would be to generate a new image from a folder that happens to be on an optical disc, in the same fashion as one might generate an image of a folder on a hard disk. That's not what we want this time.
Can you see the distinction?

I'm confident Imgburn can do either method, but being a Linux guy I don't know Imgburn's name for either one.

Yes, I see the distinction.

From ImgBurn's Ez-Mode Picker, you can either
Create image file from disc
or
Create image file from files/folders.

Harmy, I would like to check this out, hopefully this weekend if JDownloader will play nicely for me. Can you PM the links to the NTSC DVD5 please?

Can you remind me, as it's been a while since I read through the thread, does the NTSC DVD have the GOUT audio (the '93 mix 2-channel Dolby Surround)? But hairy_hen's 5.1 mix will sync to iy?

Also did you use msycamore's Jabba subtitles? 

@walkingdork - last year we relaxed our rules to allow discussion about sharing "Custom DVDs". Such discs for Star Wars typically feature processing to improve the 2006 release video quality, and the addition of extra audio options. Would this type of release be allowed on MySpleen?

Darth Mallwalker said:

Not long ago when M posted Star Wars Begins to usenet
first thing I did was to download the last RAR (part090) and extract the CRC from its header
because I wanted to check it against the disc JD sent me. It didn't match :(
So does that mean M is a . . . F-word? No, no, no!

Here's a hexadecimal dump from M's image file:

The highlighted parts are the mastering date.

Interesting. I received a physical disc from JD. I used ImgBurn to create an ISO image from the disc. The dump above says that Toast was used to build the ISO, presumably by JD himself. So the original mastering data is present somewhere on the physical disc, and is retained when Imgburn makes the image?

I still have the original image for Pwnage on my hard drive. I also have a disc burned from this image. When I get some minutes spare I'll create an ISO from this disc and try a fc /b on the two images. I can do the same for my original laserdisc transfer, but I know that image was mastered with the old ImgTool Classic so it'll be interesting to see what the differences are.

It should be possible to image a disc and have the image file match. I remember way back in the days of VCD, I managed to create a BIN file from a physical CD which matched the original release (same ed2k hash). Had to recreate the CUE file though.

none said:

...

... When did the .srr and .sfv files come out? (ok see it was late 2008) Was trying to track down when .nzb's came into existence recently and haven't found anything certain, but leaning towards early 2003...

SFV files have been around for as long as I remember. 2008 sounds about right for ReScene SRR files. NZBs were devised late 2004 - article here.

I had the same experiences - the download links at x7.to listed on the download page bombard you with pop-ups, and the download package is bundled with a browser hijacker (which is optional, but easy to install by mistake - I speak from experience!) 

I did try it once, and yes, the ISO imaged from a physical disc was different to the original ISO used to burn it. Not sure if this can be remedied with some binary trickery - Mallwalker would know.

For torrents containing RAR archives, ReScene may be useful.

Welcome, and thanks for the post.

While Usenet and file-hosters (RapidShare, MegaUpload, etc.) are more popular now than five years ago, there are still those that use torrents. Demonoid now appears to be the site of choice for ot-ers, I don't know whether that's because of the Spleen's invite-only policy or something else (certainly not usability, the times I've been to Demonoid I've found the ads to be horribly intrusive).

Yes, the process is exactly the same as Adywan's audio fix method (using VobBlanker).