I have a .WAV file of the OG stereo (from the German BD) if anyone's interested in syncing it to the Shout Factory UHD.

No one?

(2023-05-28, 08:35 AM)wongfeihung Wrote: No one?

Does it sound better or different? Why the need to sync it? Spectrograms or notes would help.

(2023-05-28, 11:47 AM)Yarp Wrote:

(2023-05-28, 08:35 AM)wongfeihung Wrote: No one?

Does it sound better or different? Why the need to sync it? Spectrograms or notes would help.

The 2.0 track on the Shout UHD is reportedly a downmix (from their 5.1 remix).

I read that the 2.0 on the German BD is the genuine stereo.

Hopefully that information is accurate.

Not sure how to do a spectrogram... that's a bit beyond my meagre capability.

I muxed the BD stereo to the UHD video and they're out of sync - and I don't think a single sync up and the beginning would do.

Again, it would take someone with more ability than I to fix.

The UHD is 24fps and German BD 23.976 which is mostly why it can't be synced with a single delay.

Should be possible to slow down the video of the UHD in eac3to without re-encoding.

Someone asked me about the Japanese Laserdisc a while back, but I don't have an easy way of getting them nowadays.

You can easily change video frame rate through MKVToolNix. This old thread has good info: https://fanrestore.com/thread-2604.html

If you want to slow down / speed up the audio instead, IIRC a lot of people would say only change speed for 23.976<->24 and don't try to maintain pitch, because it's such an imperceptible difference and there's risk of introducing more artifacts by massaging the pitch.

(2023-06-02, 08:24 PM)axeyou Wrote: You can easily change video frame rate through MKVToolNix. This old thread has good info: https://fanrestore.com/thread-2604.html

If you want to slow down / speed up the audio instead, IIRC a lot of people would say only change speed for 23.976<->24 and don't try to maintain pitch, because it's such an imperceptible difference and there's risk of introducing more artifacts by massaging the pitch.

I think remuxing the audio seems less complex and risky than re-encoding the image.

I'm sure the difference to the ear would be imperceptible.


I put the two ripped files into Audacity and you can see that whilst the German BD looks normal:



Shout's downmix looks funky as hell:

NTSC dvd 2.0 is better than DE blu-ray.

(2023-06-03, 10:35 AM)wongfeihung Wrote: I put the two ripped files into Audacity and you can see that whilst the German BD looks normal:

waveforms don't give you much info. you need to be looking at and comparing spectrograms.