drngr

Huffyuv works in Win7. You need to use all 32-bit programs.

I use the Huffyuv-MT variant.

Everything I've read indicates that it's an undisclosed hardware mod, but that is one of the devices that can be modified.

There is no crack, but the copy protection has been exploited in hardware. The data stream from Alien D-Theater is out there in the wild.

I've found that the Luma Ramp pattern on DVE interacts with the ATI 750 USB's AGC, but it isn't immediately visible to the naked eye the way that some problematic non-DVD sources apparently are. With the help of a scope filter, this test may be useful as an easily-distributable check. That said, it doesn't trigger a really bad capture device I have that's triggered by a lot of other DVD content, so it certainly isn't foolproof.

Test results with ATI 750 USB:

• From black, the pattern's contrast gradually drops over 5 seconds.
• From white, the pattern's contrast gradually drops over 3 seconds.
• From grey, the pattern's contrast gradually drops over 5 seconds.

TestAGC.iso (RAR, 92KB)

Avisynth script to produce the visualizations: TurnRight().Histogram().TurnLeft()

In the description it says HD72B, which does ignore HDCP.

I don't know about Ireland, but the HD72A + splitter combination is cheaper in the US now that there is a seller offering it for only $55.

If your source device is closer to your TV, it makes more sense to use a splitter since that way you don't need two long cables snaking to and from the computer. Of course if you have everything on one desk, it doesn't matter.

There are filters for filling extending/filling in borders but they only work well on still images from what I've seen. You end up seeing distracting distortion in motion.

Nice! Are there any obvious seams playing that shot in motion?

19:31, using MPEG2Source - two green macroblocks.

http://s27.postimg.org/u4q7fuoxv/0_19_31.jpg

Now in SmearVision...

Perfectly clear to you; as a reader of your post I saw a factual statement with nothing indicating what you based it on.

It's possible that they're ultimately derived from the same scan, but the two Sony versions and the BD vary wildly at points in terms of color, shadow/highlight detail, and framing. Saying they're the same transfer conjures to mind typical processing/encoding differences and not the deliberate creative changes to this movie.

For what it's worth, the two DVD players aren't even close to one another, and the Proc Amp settings for the DPS-470's test signals don't work well for either player.

http://s7.postimg.org/qczp2gr57/D_KR4_1.png
http://s7.postimg.org/vpojglf1n/D_KR4_2.png
http://s7.postimg.org/t5swmhrhn/DVP642_1.png

Chewtobacca said:

The UK and Australian BDs use the same transfer as the Ultimate Edition DVD and the 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD.

Err, what? The color timing between the Sony 20th Anniversary DVD and the UK/AU BD is completely different. No idea about UE DVD.

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1169049/the-transformers-the-movie-1986-4-dvds-vs-blu-ray-uk-comparison-pix

I got it from vanleest.nl in 2008, but apparently they are now freerecordshop.nl.

Maybe this one?

You can send it over whenever you'd prefer, but I've got something to finish so I won't be able to take a look until Dec 1 probably.

BlackMagic has several devices that capture uncompressed multi-channel audio; the second sentence notes the cheapest one I know of.

Is uncompressed really what you want? The options for capturing compressed AC3 and DTS bitstreams are the same as before, as far as I know.

I have a "Digital Processing Systems DPS-470 Digital Component AV Synchronizer" that also functions as a 10-bit test signal generator. In comparison to this, test patterns played from my Philips DVP642 are much too dark.

I've been meaning to see how the Toshiba DVD player I have here compares.

Wow nice one DoomBot.

I'll do $50. Poita is offering an insane deal giving his services away for free to us; I paid about double that just to get a short trailer of a movie scanned. Wish I had more to contribute right now.

What is the problem with the splitter linked from here?

zee944 said:

I think that's what drngr meant on "impractical"

Nope; I meant this:

zee944 said:

The framing could be slightly different each scene and it'd take a rather complicated method to match them.

I have a feeling reframing varying randomly in some scenes will make it impractical.

No clue what the output actually is, just that it should be better since it isn't video+audio together modulated onto a TV channel.

You could perhaps try one of these: http://www.amazon.com/RiteAV-Female-F-Type-Coax-Adapter/dp/B000V1O1LM

In theory it should be possible to perform an inverse telecine with the same accuracy as an LD player's own Pause function using the "white flag" or the frame numbers from the Philips codes.

However, these flags weren't always accurate, leading to jumpy still frames. (Here is a working link to the text file quoted.)

Laserman said:

Now to do this on Laserdisc, they player has to know which two adjacent fields actually make up the frame (othewise you might get one field from one frame of film, and the other field from a diferent frame - not good). So how does an analogue system cope with this? Easy, encode the required information in the VBI (the vertical blank interval). When making the disc, you store the info in the VBI, its often referred to as a 'white flag'. When you hit the pause button on a CAV disc, it reads the flag, and the laser assembly actually does a one track reversal (i.e. 2 fields) and can then redisplay the current frame. It is set in the VBI area outside of picture info, or CC info (its at line 11 or 274 depending on the field). If you get it wrong, the pause feature will have a 'jiggling' frame for 40% of the frames! You can see this on some discs. Sometimes just the 'picture number' is used instead, which is also encoded into the VIL.

"About Laserdiscs"

I have a setup that lets me capture the relevant VBI lines, but it will be quite a while before I have access to my LD player again and I'm not sure whether it's actually worth pursuing. In theory it could help for discs where the pattern breaks often, but those are also probably the releases that are most likely to have the wrong data.

ww12345 said:

For those not in the know, a "cutter" cuts prints up into 4 frame strips to sell on eBay...

From post #8 on the previous page.

Well if anyone has info on whether a film cleanup is a derivative work, do post it. The distributor of this public domain Blu-ray felt that their restoration efforts weren't enough to protect their content, and added a watermark listing their website in the lower right

Yes.