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The Griff said:

WG could've taken an uncompressed 5.1 PCM soundtrack from LD...

No he couldn't, because such a thing does not exist.

Cassius76 said:

Where on earth have these 2 come from?  Or are they THE SAME PERSON?

They do not appear to be the same person - one posts from the US and the other from Europe.

Chronic ash asked about buying a copy of the workprint - this is why I only deleted his message, and didn't ban the account immediately.

The ban was for the posts that followed.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-originaltrilogy-com-acronym-buster/topic/6810/

Any AC3 encoder.

Professional encoder plugins can be found in Sony's AV software (i.e. Vegas/Sound Forge) or Apple's Compressor for the Mac. Aften is a free alternative.

You cannot directly use 2-channel PCM with the GOUT video (for ANH, anyway) as the video's bitrate has peaks that are too high.

You need to either re-encode the video with a lower max bitrate, or re-encode the audio to something like 448kbps AC3.

Something is not quite right there, as the second shot is darker.

Zion said:

This wouldn't really work for moving shots. Well, unless you figured out a way to take a high number of separate captures of the same LD and blend each frame together.

Well, with a CAV disc you can use the slow-motion feature of your LD player, while still capturing at full speed, then temporalsoften(xx,255,255).selectevery(yy,1)

Oh and hi, BTW.

It should be pretty easy to find the Xvid on mainstream torrent sites, and if you're lucky there may still be seeders.

Search for Bring.Back.Star.Wars.WS.PDTV.XviD-NOsegmenT.

Also, using the "revisited" tag may give people the impression that it's an Adywan production.

A Channel 4 spokesperson confirmed there are no plans for another 'Bring Back' episode but added they wouldn't completely rule out doing another of the "special event shows".

http://www.myparkmag.co.uk/articles/television/justin-lee-collins-back-axe-.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2435713/Justin-Lee-Collins-Bring-Back-aint-back.html

@ HotRod & ladyferry:

You little buggers. :-)
Fancy hiding your rule-breaking in Ady's thread...

OK, to be clear: so Fanboys was not released in the UK. However, you can still legally get it imported (and breaking the region coding is fair use, as far as I'm concerned).

Of course, anyone with half a brain can also get it illegally. This is known as warez, and we do not discuss that on here.

CompMovieGuy said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTWRSaHXJGs
(dont forget to press the HQ button!)

I can't see the HQ button?

Wait a second - did you just say telly-seen???! :-)

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Rescuing-Star-Wars-new-documentary/topic/10127/

Sevb32 said:

Janskeet said:

I say the railing should be even higher.

Tell that to my workplace too it has railings that aren't even that high. How high are typical railings anyway? I am guessing they are usually not as high as you think they are.

Typically:
Minimum height 1m (about 3'-3"), or 1.4m (4'-7") if the walkway is used by cyclists.
1.5m (4'-11") if over a railway.
1.8m (5'-11") for equestrian usage, or over a railway where there is a higher risk of vandals throwing stuff onto the tracks or overhead lines.

What is the actual resolution of the Xvid? Most DVD players that can play MPEG4 ASP are limited to a max res of 720 x 576.

Assuming 'HD' actually means HD (720/1080p) and not 'HR' (which just means a resolution a bit higher than the normal 640 x 352), your best option is to hook your computer up to your HDTV and play it from there.

Other options are to convert to DVD - which means downscaling to SD of course - or converting to a BD5/AVCHD disc for playback on a BD player or PS3.

It probably means you have an older version of MVTools. The latest is (as far as I know) v2.4.2 and can be found here.

Janskeet said:

Do you guys recommend this? Cliprex DVD Player Professional

Never heard of it. On investigation, it looks like it's bundled with spyware.

CompMovieGuy said:

I recommend this

http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_mega.htm

Media Player Classic along with VLC should play and do everything you need

I don't trust codec packs. But I would recommend Media Player Classic - Homecinema edition as a media player.

Janskeet said:

I know some forums have the capability to post a youtube or other video website right to the forum so no link is necessary.

Thankfully, this forum software does not have the facility to embed Youtube videos.

Just post a url.

Selling.

There's a long thread discussing it somewhere if you look.

Thread locked because this isn't a "bug report".

DanielC said:

blah blah blah

Just dropping in to say hi... bye now, take care all.

You're a troll. You're also full of shit. Why are you posting here, did you get banned from fanedit.org or something?

skyjedi2005 said:

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The gout is an absolute joke.  i know it looks sharper than the laserdisc but it also looks worse because of the sharpening and sounds worse because of the low bitrate 2.0 dolby which could easily pass muster as a bad mp3 rip.

I put on the laserdisc just last night and was astounded by the sonic difference in the audio.  The Stereoization is more defined there is more depth to the sound and the lows are lows and the highs are highs.  The Soundtrack is loud in all the right places and quiet when it needs to let Williams music soar on through.

If you turn dynamic range compression off in your Dolby Digital decoder then you might notice an improvement in the AC3 on the GOUT.

Firstly, with the IVTC - although it seems to have been successful for the most part, I noticed some flickering artefacts on the near-horizontal lines behind Han in the cantina. I'm guessing that the IVTC includes an element of post-processing that is incorrectly identifying these lines on certain frames as combing artefacts, and blurring them.

Secondly, the "light temporal cleaner" is probably a bit too strong, especially since the image already suffers from the DVNR-from-hell that was part of the THX laserdisc mastering process. The pan across the cantina is even more of a blurry mess than it was before.

And if you could back off the contrast a little, if possible, that would avoid the loss of detail I pointed out in Post 8 above.

Molly said:

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EDIT: I have uploaded a 50 MB VOB containing a quickie test encode of the Greedo scene, IVTC'd, anamorphic'd, with a light temporal cleaner and brightness/contrast adjustment based on the brightness of the subtitles. I don't know if it's better than the GOUT, which is what I hope for, but eh. I'm mainly doing this for myself, but I like to share.

I checked out the sample. Is it worth me making any suggestions for improvement, seeing as you've already uploaded a torrent?