The Griff

If the sources are the same fps, and they go out of sync (assuming its not a capture error), would it be reasonable to assume that differences (ie. extra frames) occur at the reel changes? You could trim at those points without negatively affecting the audio since there should be no carry-over music, dialogue or effects from one reel to another.

What's the deal with LPCM 5.1? Does it simply require too much bandwidth/size compared to DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD because its uncompressed?

Perhaps release the mkv with DD audio tracks as standard and make the DTS-HD MA available for muxing?

I'd put the DTS-HD MA tracks as standard on the blu, however. If you're rocking blu ray, you should also be rocking DTS of some sort. Any receiver (of worth) made since well before the advent of blu ray should support DTS, surely.

And, yeah, worse case scenario: there's always the option to have the player decode the DTS for you (which you would already be doing, I should imagine).

That said, I have no preference. If there's room for duplicate Dolby TrueHD and regular DD tracks, without sacrificing video quality, then I don't see a problem in going that route.

There is a DVDR floating around. Source unknown. Possibly TV?

Not perfect, by any means, but quite passable. Also contains the original sountrack.

mich said:

Does anyone have a myspleen invite?

PM sent.

...Even though I'll probably cop shit for it (you're supposed to request in the myspleen thread).

ANYWAY, had a chance to skim through this and its amazing. Thank you so much, guys, for making and sharing this wonder.

I was especially grateful that the pop-up menu options are all presented within the 2.35:1 frame since that is the shape of the projector screen I watch such material on (and since the audio cannot be changed on the fly).

I know I've asked before, but I can't help but do so again while the project is still fresh and the materials (hopefully) still accessible to you wizards:

Any chance of getting a updated restored soundtrack that we could sync to the European version? I very much appreciate both cuts of the film.

My humble thanks, either way.

I will continue to seed this at myspleen until my seedbox provider realises that I should've paid my renewal fee a week ago...

nicarran said:

Also if someone is willing to invite me to myspleen it would be great (I was  a demonoid user with ~1.6 downlad ratio).

PM'd.

dvdmike said:

The Griff said:

zeropc said:

french blu-ray of silent hill is the best version. period.

Indeed.

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/index.php?vergleich=silent_hill_bd1

Blown out clipped whites? 

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/index.php?art=part&x=563&y=159&action=1&image=1&vergleich=silent_hill_bd1&lossless=0#vergleich

 

Lovely 

I noticed that. But on the upside, the black levels and the gamma are much improved.

At any rate, it is director-approved and remedies what was a fairly murky viewing experience (on my projection set up, at least).

zeropc said:

french blu-ray of silent hill is the best version. period.

Indeed.

http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/index.php?vergleich=silent_hill_bd1

I have a clean, raw TS digital capture of the "celebrity cameo" version of the Ray Parker Jnr music video, with minimal logos at the beginning.

It is, however, a 576i NTSC->PAL conversion.

I'd be happy to upload it someplace if you'd like to assess it for quality.

tdm said:

I asked CatBus for his subtitles pack, and he told me to ask here for an invite on MySpleen, so here I am, asking ^^

PM sent.

A blu ray of the original NIGHT OF THE DEMONS is supposedly in the works...

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=222377

Very excited for this. Keep up the good work!

SpiffyGriff said:

Hello, I'm Griff, a filmmaker. 

Hello, I'm THE Griff.

Matt_Stevens said:

I'll be seeing DRUNKEN MASTER 2 in the big screen later this month. Supposedly the original Hong Kong release.

Enjoy! I saw it, back in the day, on a double-bill with HARD BOILED, no less.

Very cool video. Now I can show this to friends rather than talk over the movie about how great it all is.

Yup. There is. I have it on my PAL VHS copy.

It is atrocious.

CatBus said:

Things I remember are: lots of OCR errors where a lowercase L was confused with an I and that sort of thing (not visible when rendered in a typical sans-serif font, but still)

I noticed the lower case "l"/upper case "I" thing when I took a quick look at the sub file. I think the substitution only occurs when the subs are presented in italics and was likely intentional for aesthetic reasons.

Its open-matte, I believe, so you could easily crop it to OAR (assuming the effects shots are open-matte, too).

Here are the chapter stops from the original Japanese BD (note that there are some big gaps in there):

00:00:00.000

00:00:18.852

00:03:24.037

00:10:28.085

00:14:00.047

00:18:39.159

00:23:42.796

00:27:51.586

00:33:15.702

00:51:11.902

00:54:48.868

01:02:06.180

01:05:46.359

01:11:22.236

01:15:41.119

01:20:58.895

01:30:59.912

01:35:38.649

01:41:08.061

01:52:42.297

01:55:05.273

01:57:08.896

02:01:45.172

02:05:00.701

02:06:03.222

02:07:34.646

I assume that they consider a patch to be some sorta executable file which, when combined with the blu ray files, will automatically "patch" the custom audio and subtitles into the existing structure, with no further effort on behalf of the user.

Okay, I muxed together the audio and subtitle file with the Japanese BD's video stream in TSMuxer and they match up perfectly. Great work, Matt!

I then threw that into Clown BD and was able to re-author it with forced subtitles. Just to make sure nothing funny had happened, I replaced Clown's a/v stream with the original TSMuxer one. The subs still came on automatically.

I've uploaded Clown BD's file structure for anyone who wishes to use it. Simply paste TSMuxer's "00000.m2ts" file into the BDMV>STREAM folder and you'll have forced subtitles.

[link removed]

This also incorporates the chapter list from the Japanese BD.

Thanks again, Matt!

Some of them roughly match the shots here:

https://sites.google.com/site/suspiria1977bluraycomparison/home/French-Vs-Italian-Vs-Japanese-Vs-UK

Hmmm. Some fella over at the blu-ray.com forums posted screens from the Aussie version of some of the notorious problem shots. Perhaps you could tell from these whether or not they correlate with any other source out there?

http://www.imagebam.com/image/9fa97f216346741

http://www.imagebam.com/image/fc8702216346782

http://www.imagebam.com/image/742b22216347114

http://www.imagebam.com/image/8d3cce216352889

http://www.imagebam.com/image/22e793216352916

DJ, did you look into the Australian release? If so, anything of interest there? While I understand its from the same munted master as all the rest, I've read suggestions that it has its own unique peculiarities and isn't a direct port of the other discs.

Matt_Stevens said:

Gents (and ladies) I would love to share the subtitles and audio. Question is, how?

What would you all recommend? What's the best way?

 

Spleen?

I would think that you could certainly share your entire custom BD with the tweaked image there. I only have a few Spleen invites, but how many would be willing to download an entire BD? They may suffice.

Failing that, you could always use a public tracker. Whether or not you make the torrent file publicly available would be up to you.