I'd be interested to see what sort of performance people are getting on their PCs.
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I'm thinking about getting one of those video enhancers to re-captures a few LDs... but left wondering if, at this point, it would still be useful at all. Any advice ?

Guys, I'm stuck at the encoding step of a few finished projects.

I tend to end my edits with DN-HD outputs (which are about 120gb for a 90mn film), which I then encode to h264/blu-ray or other more lossy formats to share online. However, I still haven't found the right encoding method to deliver satisfying results for those "more lossy" formats, especially h264 and BD-related encodings. No matter what softwares and settings I use, I keep finding the resulting videos disappointing compared to the original source, and at this point, I feel like I've tried pretty much everything.

An example HERE


You can see the BD encode has greatly softened the grain, even though the settings used were tentatively as high as can be for the desired output size/format.
Obviously, quality loss is to be expected, but not to that level (?).

I'm open to your suggestions and advices as to what method should be used to properly encode to "general consumption" formats.  Humble thanks !

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Just finished to watch it. Ain't no Young Frankenstein for sure. But not bad at all, either. Mel Brooks did a nice comedy, with good acting, chose the right star for each role, with respectable special effects. Sure, it's not as funny as the previously mentioned film - that is a masterpiece IMHO - but he made me laugh some time, and smile a lot.

Luckily, it was a light comedy without bad words, and heavy sexual jokes, like the most part of the parodies of these days. All in all, a mild funny flick for the whole family.

No Blu-ray of this; even if it's just a comedy, it would be good to have it on a high definition format. There is a 720p HDTV verions, sadly it has corrupted frames and missing end credits, but could be used as source for an eventual project, along with laserdisc PCM - that "could" be better than 384kbps 2.0 DD track, but I can't be sure...

Avisynth 64bit (even if may be a bit faster than 32bit) isn't worth the upgrading, as many filters works only on the 32bit version - unless someone has a method to successfully run the 32bit plugins using the 64bit version, I'll stick with the x86 version, even using Window 10 pro - it works well, by the way!

But, it's time to follow the multithreading way... I used the MT version years ago, but it crashed frequently, and it seems it's a general consensus to not use it. But I'm open to (re)try it.

So, what are the alternatives? I want something simple that will split the task automagically - I know that I could split the script and open several instances at the same moment, but I'd prefer a simple, single script (adding the needed plugin lines) instead of split, encode, join operations.

SoraThread seems promising; used in conjuction with MT, speed improves a lot. Other alternatives could be Pipeline, Threadrequest; any other?

Avisynth+: as far as I understand, it is 100% compatible with any Avisynth plugin, and should be faster, so is there a reason to not use it?

I'm aware that direct avisynth 32bit -> x264 64bit encoding is not possible - but there are some workarounds for this; not so important, as I always encode lossless before.

x264 64bit seems a lot faster than 32bit - from 10%, to 40% and more with slow settings. I can't see anything that may lead me to NOT use the 64bit version; or, at the contrary, there are problems in the 64bit in comparison to 32bit?

About a year ago, I found a Laserdisc of the Chicago 17 album at a local thrift shop... It has the entire album, plus two music videos for You're The Inspiration and Hard Habit To Break.

Although I don't have a LD player, I picked it up largely because at the time, I had never seen an album on LD before.

Is it worth it to rip the LD video and get a bit perfect capture of the LD audio?

Anyone else from the UK noted that Stargate is a 1.85:1 version on Netflix?

Picture is decent and looks fairly good.

My PC sound card is (still) the original integrated one; it’s a SigmaTel with the CXD9872RD chipset – not too bad to be an integrated sound card; plus, it has the ability to capture bit-perfect audio via the digital input – and that’s a VERY GOOD feature, when you must capture laserdisc PCM/AC3/DTS soundtracks.

However, the analog input/output, even if good, is not comparable with the best sound card around. The solution is simple: to buy a better sound card! Even if the solution is simple, I can’t afford the brand new sound card I’m dreaming of now, so I thougth about an alternative solution. Which one?

It’s possible to use an external device as ADC (Analog Digital Converter); just use an analog stereo cable to plug the output of your laserdisc player (or VHS, or another analog source) to the device analog input; then, use a digital cable to connect the device output to your PC sound card input (I used the TosLink optical connection, but a coaxial digital cable will do the same work; it depends from the device digital output and your PC sound card digital input).

The device’s own ADC could be better than your PC sound card or not; how could you discover which one is better? Well, some time ago I wrote into my hi-end audio capture card post about this wonderful tool, the RightMark Audio Analyzer – now version 6.0.3 is available, but I stick with the old 5.5 version, as the new one continue to crash my PC…

This tool simply analyze the input/output quality of your sound card; I used it to test not only it, but also the various path between the PC sound card and the other devices; they are two DVD recorder, a Pioneer DVR-320S and the Yukai DVD-R100A, plus a MiniDisc recorder, the Sony MDS-520.

Here you are the results; sampling mode: 16-bit, 48 kHz (except for MiniDisc, that is 44.1 kHz):