Am I expecting too much for the encoded HB file to look like the DVD during playback. I mean I not expecting it to be HD obviously, but it certainly bugs me that the DVD looks better, and I mean a fair bit better
If you turn on Lapsharp/Medium/Film (or Animation)
your DVD encodes will look BETTER than the source!
If you can just stop with the experimenting and use my settings!
(with a little more bit rate - if you must)
A pass through HB is going to knock some bark off the original. Nature of the beast - if you have to de-interlace, more bark gets knocked off - more beastly nature - Lapsharp returns some, or all of the bark and then some depending on the source and how much bark you’re taking off.
If you don’t have to de-interlace… it really is possible to make better DVD encodes than the source.
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Got G-Drive?
(I mean 15G is free - in the US)
I wonder if I can encode 576?
Let’s find out.
Send the entire MakeMKV rip.
PM me the shareable link.
(from where-ever you have to put it)
The thing is I don’t think I have been messing around with the settings you gave me. I’ll post them below in case I did manage to change anything. The only thing I thought I had changed was encoder preset bar to slow or slower because I was under the impression I was I was trading time for quality which I was quite happy to do.
The preview I just did under ‘fast’ didn’t look really different to the ‘slow’ and ‘slower’… I know you probably aren’t surprised. So here are the settings I am using, please correct me if I have made a mistake.
The only difference for progressive files is this
Am I doing anything wrong? I have tried the medium setting on the Lapsharp and found no difference to light setting.
I’m just uploading the mkv to G Drive. I’ll send you the share link in a few minutes
That looks fine… you won’t see exactly what Lapsharp is doing - you’ll only see it’s doing ‘something’… for the better - exactly as it should.
I don’t know what you’re comparing - the source is so bad it’s criminal (it looks like VHS to DVD)… if you actually had to pay money for it, but the fact is the ‘Preview’ I made - and sent back to you (PM) looks better (if you can call it that) than the source.
Me?
I would have turned that DVD into a Coaster or Kiddie Mobile and gotten a good version of that fine movie somewhere else - you’ll find one of those waiting for you as well…lol
Can’t turn a Sow’s Ear into a Silk Purse, but you can wipe a bit of the pig crap off it… (I can encode 576 - if I have a file - so it seems - I used those exact settings above - 1450Kbps, 'cause I forgot to change it)
Note:
‘Top Field First’ interlacing, you may only notice when the credits roll and maybe not even then. You might be able to skip de-interlacing, but ur gonna have to make some previews at various points, including the credits, to find out.
Note 2:
I also pulled the embedded Title Field out of that file - 'cause you didn’t do it in MakeMKV before you ripped it.
OK well firstly I’m glad it’s not just me.
Is there anything I am or could be doing in makemkv to screw up the original rip? Or is it just the DVD itself is just crap?
And thanks for the better version! 
Nope - a DVD rip is what is on the disc.
In this case - total crap.
But seriously - you bought that in a particularly dark and ‘uriney’ scented corner of a Manchester Underground, from a Bloke named ‘Ken Shabby’… didn’t you?
“Right, Squire - you want a kidney pie with that?”
I work in an op shop and see those crappy Indonesian copies every day, the only place for them are in the dumpster. Good riddance, never to appear again.
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Shabby doesn’t look Indonesian, but his uriney aura does have Southern Pacific notes that can’t be mistaken…
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Yes, a dodgy dude at best, with ink stained hands from printing labels and covers.
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I think it was called Amazon… maybe the same thing
I believe that too.
I’m the proud owner of Amazon’s Fox/Shabby Family Guy S01-S05 DVDs. Awful.
Hi all
I was wondering if I could follow up to all this with a problem with aspect ratios. I’ve been using the settings as discussed above and for the most part everything has been just fine. I’ve run into a couple of DVDs that the back of the box says 1.85 Widescreen or 16:9 or 1.77.
When I rip the dvd using Makemkv it seems to put it in a 4:3 / 1.33 aspect ratio. So far as I’ve read that is a thing and handbrake can fix it. Execpt that my handbrake settings above just seems to take the 4:3 mkv file and keep that aspect ratio. (Yes I can see the ‘keep aspect ratio’ tickbox ticked)
So my question is what do I change to get it back to 16:9 or 1.85?
Do I just change the display width? Do I need to change the Modulus setting?
The DVDs do seem to play in widescreen when played directly via PS4 on to the TV
Please can you tell me what settings i should use for detelecine and deinterlace for stargate sg-1 ntsc ? Thank you.
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I’m out of the Users Helping Plex Bidness.
Good Luck to ya.
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