Oldschooljedi

I'm getting the error: "Error loading avisynth script, script error: there is no function GradFun2db.....line 187".

Any ideas?

dark_jedi,

these AVCHD's look really nice. Did you use solo21's script for upscaling as posted here or did you do these encodings without avisynth?

I wanted to try solo21's script a few months ago, but I couldn't get this script working, too.

I have the monomix (wave file) and the pre THX (AC3 file) mix that Moth3r used for his Pwnage Edition. PM me if there is an interest.

When you demux with pgcdemux you have to select 'create Celltimes.txt' but make sure you unselect 'Include end time'.

Pgcdemux gives you the chapters in Celltime.txt.

Now when you mux with muxman you need to select 'file' on the top left side of muxman and then 'Import chapter'. Then you browse for the Celltime.txt that pgcdemux created.  Then import all the streams you want to mux. Thats it.

I simply bought my DVD's in a store and I live in a PAL country.

Yes, the NTSC GOUT has a slightly better picture quality. When I compared the processed example movies from the NTSC DVD here they looked quite similar to the results I've gotten from the PAL DVDs. So I decided not to order them a second time from the US.

Yes, this shows exactly what I mean.

There is some ghosting visible in chapter 45 of ESB, look at the left hand of the stormtrooper, Leia shoots down. There is also ghosting visible in the cantina scene in ANH. This is visible on the original DVD, too.

Btw, I compared the scene when Ben deactivates the tractor beam in ANH with the transfer of Dr. Gonzo. Although the image of Dr. Gonzo is much softer than the image of the GOUT you can see slightly more detail on Dr. Gonzo's set. I wonder if this is caused by encoding the NTSC master to PAL or if there is less detail on the NTSC DVD also.

DarthJardus said:

Oh man, now you tell me I should have chosen 16:9 in HCEnc!  :(

Only 35% done now....after  15 hours!

 

I really do not want to do it all over again.

 

I second the request, can someone please upload these versions?  I do not have newsgroup access so would also prefer a torrent site. 

It does take a lot of time to figure this out and then hope it works.

 

The encodings are really sloooooow, be partient.

When I did the encodings, HCenc. selected 16:9 output automatically when I loaded the avisynth file. While the encoder is doing it's work you can see if the encoding is in the right aspect ratio: on the right side of the encoder mask at the top you can read "aspect" and then 16:9 when everything is ok. If you read 4:3 there then something is wrong.

I finished all three movies but for some reason I cannot upload them somewhere, as willingly I would.

I had the same problems. Delete the subs and this line too:

episode==4 ? ANH(last,PAL) : episode==6 ? ROTJ(last,PAL) : Nop()

That worked for my encodes.

I can play it with Real Alternative. I have to drag/drop the "stream"-folder over the player, then it plays fine. But this folder must be copied on HDD first.  VLC cannot play this file correctly on my pc.

You need to install the fftw3.dll into the system32-folder. You must have installed it correctly, otherwise the encoder couldn't work with this script. Nice that this guide helps. However thank g-force for his excellent work with his script.

I remuxed the original selectable subtitles and had no problems. You can also use the complete script for hard encoded subtitles, but I have no results with this, because I wanted selectable subtitles. If you want selectable subtitles too you have to delete the subtitle-lines from the script.

   Also are there any before and after examples to get a qualitative feel of the improvement?

 

Negative1 posted a short clip of ESB for comparison. You can get it here.

The bottom video is the filtered video, the top video is the original, unprocessed GOUT video. Please note: Negative1 used script v. 3.09b; the actual script (v. 4.00) is better than the one used for this one.

Here you can get the cover for ANH. I'm not sure if AVP made a cover for ESB too.

Jonno said:

I'm just making a first attempt at converting my ESB disc to 16:9 - this is a great guide, really useful. Just one or two questions, though -

In the HCgui settings it's advised to 'Open settings1 tab and choose "progressive"'. Presumably this only applies to NTSC sources? Only it seemed that the original demonstration was actually based on a PAL disc, so it seems a strange thing to suggest...

Also, VobBlanker is recommended for reintegrating the new video into the old menu structure. I've had a look, and the 'replace' option seems to need an IFO file for the new stream - does the HCgui encoder actually produce one of these, alongside the converted video?

Thanks for any thoughts!

I have done my encodings only with the PAL-DVD so I have no idea about your "progressive" on settings1 tab question.

Once you have authored the video with the audio and the subpics using Rejig there is a new (second) created Video_TS folder that contains a new IFO file. Vobblanker uses this IFO file automatically.

alfa2co said:

I am very interested on a step by step guide. Furthermore, I'd like know how can be cropped the upper and lower black bars that are often present in DVD 4:3.

As I'm not an expert in avisynth-scripting I woud suggest to post this question here.

Sorry.

 

Oldschooljedi, I think you're missing a word in your above statement... I can't quite tell if you're saying you want the "Jedi Rocks" dance number left in Jedi or if you don't want it, LOL.

Sorry, I meant to say: please do not edit the dance scene out of the AVCHD-release, please.

Oh respectfully, please let the dance number in the AVCHD release of Jedi.

INv8r_ZIM said:

  GAH...something about the subtitles...deleted the whole subtitle section, and it runs fine now.

Are you sure, that you have the latest version of Avisynth installed? I recommend to uninstall Avisynth and install the latest version from here.

I tried this script yesterday and had no problems.

Thank you for the update, g-force. I will start new encodings as soon as I can!

Thank you very much, that really helps.

And for PaulisDead2221, here is the section of my script that deals with the colour correction:

polarcolourlike("D:\Empire\ESBdvdSMART\Histogram\SeDVDallPolar.txt","D:\Empire\ESBdvdSMART\Histogram\OrigDVDallPolar.txt",true,true,true)
colourlike("D:\Empire\ESBdvdSMART\Histogram\SeDVDallYV12.txt","D:\Empire\ESBdvdSMART\Histogram\OrigDVDallYV12.txt")
converttorgb32(matrix="pc.709")
colourlike("D:\Empire\ESBdvdSMART\Histogram\SeDVDallRGB.txt","D:\Empire\ESBdvdSMART\Histogram\FullLaserallRGB.txt")
levels(36,1,214,0,255)
VD_HUE(sat=0.9)

I couldn't find a working link for the polarcolourlike and the colourlike-plugin. Where can I download them or could someone upload them, please?

This is the RemoveGrain.dll I used for my encodings. Everything worked fine.

Do you have the fftw3.dll in your Windows-system32-folder? If not, copy it into this folder.

INv8r_ZIM said:

Missing plugin, maybe?

On a different note, I'm assembling Empire now.  Has anyone noticed an occasional diagonal (high left to lower right) streaking, particularly during visually busy scenes (like the lost in the snow stuff, or the duel in the carbon-freeze chamber)?  Is this a by-product of the script; an encoder error, or is it in the GOUT (though I can't seem to see it there).

Haven't notice this, but I hadn't time to watch the whole movie yet.