Moth3r

Jetrell Fo said:

Okay, here is what I chose to buy.........

Dazzle Video Creator Plus HD

Beyond what audio/video inputs it has, I can't find any meaningful specs for that product (e.g. chipset, ADC, comb filter and so on). Also, I've not had any experience with USB capture devices myself. So... I can't really offer you any opinion on your purchase.

My laptop has the requirements to go after the higher quality.  I haven't opened it yet as I wanted some opinion on it's usage for this project.  It does WAV for audio which is awesome and of course it handles the higher quality output formats.  I don't think I need HD or AVCHD for my LD transfers but it's nice to have the option.

Having an audio input on the device is good, as it means that audio sync should be locked to the video (thus avoiding the sync problems you sometimes get when using the PC's audio input). It doesn't capture HD of course, the blurb is slightly misleading on that (the bundled software is able to edit video from a HD camcorder to make AVCHD discs). 

The HD source is the 2004 version.

Darth Mallwalker said:

 

Our source for REIVAX ANH is a torrent at the 'internal organ' place.
Don't laugh! It's not as crazy as it sounds....

 

Just remember it's no longer myspleen.net, it's called myspleen.cc now...

Yep.

The Flunk version (thread here) had a few errors resulting in some garbage frames - most "normal" people would have deleted it, only the die-hard collectors would still have a copy. Have you tried asking Russ and/or Mallwalker?

TV's Frink said:

Added:

RemixerBoss Plans an Awesome ROTJ Fanedit, You Dig?
Return of the Jedi Remixer Boss Edition

To clarify my comment in that thread, I wasn't endorsing any dodgy software, I just suspected that RemixerBoss was the same person responsible for several spam posts like this, although I never proved it. The same guy also made this classic.

For learning about video signals, Wikipedia is a useful reference, but here's a very quick summary:

Component video comprises three connections: a luma (brightness) signal "Y", and two chroma (colour) components "Pb" and "Pr.

In S-Video, there are just two signals, luma (Y) and chroma (C).

In composite video there is just one signal which is luma and chroma combined.

So you know that laserdisc stores video as a composite signal? Well, in order to display or capture this signal it needs to be decoding into its constituent parts. The first stage in this process is to separate the luma and chroma signals. This is where the comb filter, or Y/C separator, comes in. However, perfect separation is difficult. A cheap and simple comb filter may produce imperfections such as dot crawl on the boundaries between different colours, and rainbows (aka cross-colour) on black and white edge transitions.

A good 3D comb filter, such as the one in your AG1980, should reduce these effects.

To further complicate matters, some (most?) LD players do not output a pure composite signal on the yellow RCA. What they do is run the signal through the internal comb filter, do a bunch of processing (for things like DNR, RGB frame store, etc.) before sending a Y/C signal to the s-video socket. The composite video from the yellow RCA is just the same Y and C signals recombined. This means that the signal has always been put through the comb filter in the LD player (which is probably not as good as the one in your deck) and comb filter artefacts may be introduced into the video at this stage.

This is why a close A-B comparison of test patterns (or scenes with strong colours or black/white edges), is essential IMO.

I remember starting a thread to discuss the burn speed issue a while ago (y'know, in the correct forum)...

marioxb doesn't like PAL

Oasis - "Wonderwall"
Bon Jovi - "Livin on a Prayer"
Van Morrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
The Foundations - "Build Me Up Buttercup"
Manic Street Preachers - "Motorcycle Emptiness"
Bryan Adams - "Summer of 69"
Journey - "Don't Stop Believing"
Huey Lewis and the News - "The Power of Love"
Bruce Springsteen - "Dancing in the Dark"
The Beatles - "Hey Jude"
Gerry & The Pacemakers - "You'll Never Walk Alone"       
Lightning Seeds - "Life Of Riley"
Robbie Williams - "Angels"
John Lennon - "Imagine"
Don McLean - "American Pie"
Aztec Camera - "Somewhere in my Heart"
Blues Brothers - "Everybody Needs Somebody"
Don Henley - "Boys Of Summer"
Monkees - "Daydream Believer"
Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"
Source Ft Candi Staton - "You Got The Love"

... and I'm only just getting started. There's no way I can narrow it down to 10.

Edit: OK, there's 10. Have deleted some UK tracks that didn't chart in the US, which I'm not sure is fair, but it helped narrow it down. I'm not completely happy, and may well swap some around later.

The "easiest/most efficient" way around both of these issues is to use the hardware you already have. Many DVD players have an feature where, instead of selecting a chapter, you key in a time and playback jumps to that point. Needless to say this is very useful when there are no chapter stops.

Also, nearly all widescreen TVs have a feature to "zoom" a non-anamorphic image to fit the screen in correct proportions. Look for a mode called "zoom" or "cinema".

If want a new DVD with added chapter stops, this can be accomplished fairly easily. Use PGCDemux to extract the separate video, audio and subtitle streams from the original DVD. Use DVDAuthorGUI to re-author these streams to a new DVD - the program has an option to auto generate chapter stops at defined intervals (e.g. every 5 minutes).

Converting 4:3 letterboxed widescreen to 16:9 anamorphic is not so simple, as the video needs to be re-encoded. You could try using DVD Rebuilder (you will also need an MPEG-2 encoder, e.g. HC Encoder) which has a 4:3 to 16:9 option.

No, the page to edit account information (password, email address, etc.) has not yet been made. It is on "the list".

We know that Jay, Puggo and TMBTM have submitted videos, but we are yet to find out who made the final cut. Thread on the project here.

BTW, Hi JD!

Don't ever get DVD-R DL discs - they're useless for DVD-Video as you can't set the layer break, and I've also found them (even Verbatim branded discs) to be unreliable for data.

Normally component is better - however laserdisc is a special case as the video is stored on the disc as a composite signal.

I'll explain in more detail when I have some more time.

After one post edit, URL 1 is now 624 characters, URL 2 is 749, and URL 3 is unaffected and remains at 187.

So confirmed as a bug in the software when using urls for link text. A workaround is to use the form shown in URL 3.

Testing:

Url 1

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Forum-Fights-Back-Against-My-Train-Wreck-Thread-OP/topic/11286/

(371 characters)

Url 2

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Forum-Fights-Back-Against-My-Train-Wreck-Thread-OP/topic/11286/

(496 characters)

Url 3

The Forum Fights Back Against My Train Wreck Thread OP

(187 characters)

You could possibly make use of the comb filter in the SVHS deck:
connect the composite out from the LD player to the composite in on the deck,
then the s-video out from the deck to the s-video in on the DVD recorder.

Any benefit would depend on whether the SVHS deck's comb filter is any better than the comb filter in the DVD recorder, or whether the LD composite out is a "recombined" output instead of a pure composite.

Using the plain text editor,

quote boxes still work?

This is a known bug - happens when someone copies a post from Microsoft Word and pastes it into the forum. A load of junk gets posted along with it; this junk breaks IE.

Try again; it should be fixed now.

Have you tried going into your preferences and opting to use the plain text post editor instead?

If you look at the HTML source, something appears to have corrupted your links when you've carried out your edits. The same section of text is repeated multiple times so each link is way longer than it should be. The first one alone, for example, comes to about 4500 characters.

It may be fixable if you open the post editor, use ctrl-A to select everything, copy into a plain text editor like Windows Notepad that will strip out all the HTML, then paste back into the forum overwriting the old post.

This was the first time Ingo/Zigfried got banned - this ban was only temporary IIRC.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Thief-Trilogy/topic/6845/

Custom DVD rule alert guys - if you didn't make the disc yourself, please keep the how/what/where you got it from discussion off the forum.