Babylon5.S01E06.1080p.5.1.DTS.nfo
Babylon 5 1080p 10bit H444 60fps 5.1 DTS
Season 1: Signs and Portents (1994)
Episode 6: Mind War
Note: If you want to see a sample, download the first rar and rename it with an MKV extension, or simply drop it onto MPC to play. No compression is used on the archives, only "store" mode.
Note 2: Tweaked settings again starting with Episode 7. Things are looking better overall I feel. These should be the final settings for the rest of the season, so I will be able to upload them faster.
Another personal project I have been working on. Since we may never see a studio remaster of this great old series, I thought I would try to improve it slightly. Have you tried watching the DVD's on a highend TV?
I have upscaled and brought out the colours to be watched on UHDTV's or similar; converted the audio to DTS and also took the 5.1 track and downmixed to 2.0 (2.1) stereo for those that want it. I originally started out rendering them at "4K" resolutions, but that was simply taking too damn long - upwards of 170 hours per episode. Although they looked fantastic, I didn't want to wait that long. And with a possible new movie coming out in a few years (announced at one of the comic-cons this summer), there is a slight chance we will see proper remasters based off of the original sources with, hopefully, new CG added.
Of course, what ever you watch them on, the episodes will look better than they do now. You just may not be able to see the beautiful deep blacks of space as they should be seen.
Due to heavy grain and bluring on the original DVD transfers, I don't think much more can be done to these episodes to improve the quality. Episode 4 is the worst I have come across so far. There are some other little problems that show up from time to time like film scratches and fuzz, and vertical blueish streaks I am guessing from a bad lens at the time of shooting.
Best viewed with Media Player Classic with the EVR renderer enabled or the MadVR renderer installed.
VLC 3.0 beta does a decent job of rendering, but it's still not perfect. VLC 2.x should be deleted from your system. ;)
Hope some of you enjoy these.
Dead^Man NWA
Oct, 2014
General
Complete name : Babylon5.S01E01.1080p.5.1.DTS.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 2.63 GiB
Duration : 43mn 52s
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Movie name : Babylon 5 S01E01 Midnight on the Firing Line 1080p h444 10bit
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Title : Babylon 5 S1E01
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Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 474 MiB (18%)
Title : 5.1 DTS
Language : English
Default : Yes
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Text
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Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Ragesh 5 attacked (Credits)
00:04:30.334 : en:Our turn now
00:11:41.501 : en:Bloodlust
00:24:30.501 : en:Shifting alliances
00:31:08.001 : en:On better terms
00:41:42.001 : en:Duck and Recover (End Credits)
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