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  Terminator Bonus Features
Posted by: alleycat - 2021-03-15, 12:11 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (18)

Hi All,

I'm looking at putting together a Terminator set, a bit like the Mad Max project. This will just be the first two movies, but I'm looking to include any bonus features that have been missing from the most recent blu ray releases. Anything from TV, VHS or DVD that didn't make it over. 

I'm pretty sure the Drew Cummings making of never made it:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267719/?re...lmg_prd_14

There is also the Terminator 2 3D ride footage. 

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

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  Hey!
Posted by: bebopo - 2021-03-15, 03:58 AM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (1)

Hi there! I've been a little active on TSWT forums. I hope to be able to contribute LD rips eventually when I find the time. (And money for that matter.)

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  Dead Funny (1994) LD preservation (no DVD/BR...)
Posted by: Falcon - 2021-03-13, 09:04 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - No Replies

Hello, someone who owns this LD could make a video capture of it please?
It has never been released on DVD or BR, and I did not find any files (TV rip or other).
Thank You in advance !

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  Jacob's Ladder
Posted by: pipefan413 - 2021-03-13, 04:28 PM - Forum: Official and unofficial releases - Replies (25)

It's been ages since I watched this film but I remember it looking pretty sickly, which I thought might have been an intentional choice (this was before I knew a damn thing about colour grading). But I just threw the old Image LaserDisc against the Blu-ray and uh...

[Image: ID8239-IV-CLD-2950-IVTC-048145.png]

... Yeah, I don't think it's meant to look like that. The LaserDisc looks very photochemical (i.e. like a film print) to me but the Blu-ray looks pretty minging.

It looks like the US release is probably more or less the same thing, just released by Lionsgate rather than StudioCanal/Optimum. Although the US releases seem not to mention a 2-channel LPCM audio track, but my GB one does have that.

I take it this film is stuck looking weird in HD? No other different releases?

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  FFV1 encoding for archival
Posted by: pipefan413 - 2021-03-11, 07:14 PM - Forum: Converting, encoding, authoring - No Replies

I did some fairly extensive comparisons a while back (that I don't think I necessarily posted anywhere in any kind of organised thread or anything like that) between several different mathematically lossless video encoders, when I was first trying to decide on the best one to use for archiving all my LaserDisc captures. At that time, I was comparing HuffYUV, Lagarith (a derivative of HuffYUV), UtVideo, and MagicYUV. At the risk of oversimplifying to the point of seeming dismissive, my results basically indicated that although UtVideo and MagicYUV were both excellent overall (both offering much better flexibility than Lagarith does), and both seemed to be faster (with MagicYUV being *incredibly* quick), Lagarith ultimately offered the most efficient compression. Since that was my primary concern (I didn't really need the extra flexibility or speed for 8-bit 4:2:2 YUV LD captures anyway) I settled on using Lagarith.

However, since then, I've been hearing good things about ffmpeg's FFV1 codec, which apparently is used extensively for archival by national libraries and the like. I've also been increasingly concerned with whether I should switch to 10-bit captures for at least some of my LaserDiscs (the ones where I am particularly bothered about preserving the video in the highest possible archival quality, which isn't necessarily all of them). 10-bit captures are orders of magnitude larger than the 8-bit ones, but I wondered if the supposedly extremely efficient compression of FFV1 might help to narrow that gap and make it viable to keep hundreds of 10-bit LD caps archived. So I figured I'd give it a bash.

Since I was aiming for the best possible compression, I opted to use its 2-pass mode... and immediately ran into a problem. When compressing a 10-bit video, the first pass (or a single-pass encode) worked fine, but as soon as it ran the second pass, I got something like this:

[Image: EE3722-CLD-S350-side1-mkv-snapshot-00-05-222.png]

Very pretty! Not exactly what I was after, though. (Reminds me of how bismuth crystallises.) One thing that's kinda cool is you can clearly see the 4 slices in the output (see how the image is split into 4 boxes).

I spent more than 24 hours farting about trying to debug my command line to see what I'd done wrong but as I ran out of things to change I became increasingly convinced it was just broken. Sure enough, I eventually found something that I didn't see the first time I tried to look online to see what the issue might be: somebody raised a bug report 5 years ago saying that 10-bit 2-pass encodes were broken, and it still hasn't been fixed.

RaljOneed Wrote:Summary of the bug:
When source video has more than 8 bits per component and ffv1 codec is used in 2 pass mode, resulting file is corrupted.
(https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5405)

So, for now, 10-bit needs to be 1-pass only.

But what about 8-bit captures, for the (probably vast majority) of LDs I don't particularly need a high quality version of the video from? Mostly it's the audio I'm after, anyway.

LAGARITH: 55.5 GB
FFV1, 1-pass, Golomb Rice coder (default for 8-bit): 50.8 GB
FFV1, 1-pass, range coder (default for 10-bit+): 52.1 GB
FFV1, 2-pass, Golomb Rice coder: 50.8 GB

Yeah, you read that right: the 2-pass encode was exactly the same size as the 1-pass encode. No, it isn't a tiny bit smaller. Both of them are exactly 54,547,736,802‬ bytes. The data is not identical though, they're just the same size. So all the 2-pass encode does is take longer; it doesn't compress this particular file any better.

I wonder if maybe the 2-pass mode might be more worthwhile for something like a 1080p/4K+ video, but it would appear that for standard definition LaserDisc captures it's completely pointless.

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  Hello there!!
Posted by: albtt - 2021-03-11, 03:23 PM - Forum: Presentation - Replies (3)

Glad to be here.

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  Black Orpheus (1959) [CC1172L] synced to Criterion BD
Posted by: sertoli - 2021-03-09, 03:13 AM - Forum: Released - No Replies

Black Orpheus (1959) [CC1172L] synced to Criterion BD

Title: Black Orpheus (1959)
Format/Catalog#: [CC1172L] Criterion
Synced to: Criterion Blu-ray
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli


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  Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) [PILF-204302] synced to UHD
Posted by: sertoli - 2021-03-09, 03:09 AM - Forum: Released - Replies (1)

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) [PILF-204302] synced to UHD

Title: Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Format/Catalog#: [PILF-204302]
Synced to: UHD
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli


[Image: 12270.jpg]

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/12270/PIL...p:-Trilogy

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  Beverly Hills Cop (1984) [LV 1134-WS] synced to UHD
Posted by: sertoli - 2021-03-09, 03:04 AM - Forum: Released - Replies (5)

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) [LV 1134-WS] synced to UHD


Title: Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Format/Catalog#: [LV 1134-WS]
Synced to: UHD
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli


[Image: 21503.jpg]

[Image: 21503_back.jpg]

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  Beverly Hills Cop (1984) [PILF-204301] LD synced to UHD
Posted by: sertoli - 2021-03-09, 03:02 AM - Forum: Released - No Replies

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) [PILF-204301] LD synced to UHD


Title: Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Format/Catalog#: [PILF-204301]
Synced to: UHD
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli

[Image: 12270.jpg]

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/12270/PIL...p:-Trilogy

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