Hello, everyone! I'm fascinated by original audio mixes and the history of home video releases. I also love staying up to date with film restoration and new releases. I look forward to discussing these interests with you all and am excited to be part of this community!

So I finally over three nights was able to complete this project I talked about here over the years.

As you all know, the original 3 first films were released on DVD in 1997 THX approved. They are worthy of note as they include original mono track in english, french and spanish.



My goal was to sync those discs to the new UHD 4K, as the sound is preferable to the versions included in the discs.

Then I synced the audio from the DVDs, it was easy, as the sync, apart from initial delay, correspond to the UHD discs.

I added, wherever it was possible, Laserdiscs tracks to the projects.

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Hey guys,

I ran into a weird issue lately: The short version is I tried to remux a retail-UHD and burn it back on a BD-R DL 50 GB which all worked fine, but when I'm trying to play it on my Panasonic UBP-824 or the PS 5, it starts to stutter as soon as the bitrate exceeds 60 MBit/s.

Now the more detailed version of what I did:
First I authored a normal 1080p-Blu-ray with menu etc. using Encore CS 6. For the video I just used a proxy-encode in 1080p, just to get it integrated into the menu-structure. Then I replaced it as described here. Then I updated the BD-profile to level 3.00 with BDedit and burned it using ImgBurn (UDF 2.5 and whatever settings it used automatically after it recognized the BD-structure). The player recognizes it as UHD and the menu etc. are all ok. The film starts, but soon as the bitrate exceeds 60 MBit/s it starts to stutter.

I also added a Dolby Vision-layer from a Web-DL (the original disc only has HDR10), but that's not the issue - I also tried to burn it without the Dolby Vision-layer and the results were the same. What might also be important to know is that I also completely swapped the audio-tracks. The original disc had 10 audio-tracks with (according to BD info) a total bitrate of 6879 kBit/s, mine has 8 DTS-HD MA-tracks with a total of 12079 kBit/s.

Are there any limitations with self-burned BD-R discs or is there something in the burn-settings or the BD-structure that needs to be changed, so it also plays fine on the UHD-player? When trying to play the burned disc with VLC it also works fine, so it's not an issue with the disc itself. The Blu-ray white-paper mentions something about 72 MBit/s or 92 MBit/s for 50 GB-discs and 92, 123 or 144 MBit/s for 66 and 100 GB-discs. But somehow I can't quite figure it out whether this is my bottleneck or what else I am doing wrong.

What worries me is that I can't find any other reports about issues like this. When someone asks about burning UHD-discs, it's just recommended to use common 50 or 25 GB-discs since the BD-R XL-discs won't play on most standalone-players. But nothing about bitrate-limitations etc.

Anyone here knowing what might help to get this solved or is it just impossible what I'm trying to do here?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey guys. Thanks for the acceptance.  I look forward to reading everyone's thoughts and learning about all the edits that are out there.

I'm trying to extract the trivia subtitle track (in VOBSub form) from the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man DVD and sync it to the UHD, but I cannot find a way to extract the subtitle stream and convert it to PGS, any solution out there?

I came across this post recently, and was wondering whether anybody has captured the LD audio, or better yet, synced it up to the BD or UHD. Thanks.

https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search/lab...%281984%29

Good morning  Thanks for the acceptance.  I look forward to reading everyone's thoughts and learning about all the edits that are out there.

The last time I watched the extended trilogy was when they came out on 4K UHD, which sure had its pros and cons. I'm keen on checking out Dwalin/44rh1n's regrade of FotR and Dwalin's TT, but would be keen on an encode at maybe twice the bitrate. What are your guys' go-to versions of these films?

Hi there!

Just joined. Exciting to see all the projects and love for them here! Amazing efforts!

Cheers,

J