Babylon5.Crusade.E03.1080p.5.1.DTS.nfo
Babylon 5 1080p 10bit H444 60fps 5.1 DTS
Crusade (1999)
Episode 03: Ruling from the Tomb
Air Date: 07/14/1999
** These Crusade episodes are rendered, numbered and uploaded in "Babylon 5 Time" chronological order and not in the order they were aired or by the production numbers. I'm sure there was a perfectly sound reason as to why they aired them the way they did back in the day.
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 it to 2.0 (2.1) stereo for those that want it.
I think the biggest problem with this series was the music sound track. Ugh it's horrible! I looked into ripping the voices and adding the background music from the original series, but I don't know near enough about the process at all. So we are stuck with it until some brave person decides to take on the challenge.
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.
Remember these will need a good CPU and graphics card to play properly!! If they are skipping/freeze framing and audio is out of sync, you need a better CPU and/or graphics card.
If your running the Windows 10 TP, the new DirectX 12 drivers might be enough for you to play these. On my test PC (with the Win10TP installed) I have an old quad core I5 with a GTX 750. The shows play fine, just not in the full colour range like the GTX 980 or Titan does.
With a possible new movie - a reboot - coming out in a few years (announced at one of the comic-cons), there is a slight chance we will see proper remasters based off of the original sources with, hopefully, new CG added. Someone suggested I call these "Enhanced" versions, which is true I suppose, but I will just keep posting as I have been doing.
Best viewed with:
Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) with the EVR renderer enabled. Use MadVR renderer if you have a graphics card and TV/Monitor that it will allow you to view these on.
MediaPlayerDOTNet (MPDN). Very nice up and coming (10/16bit supported) GPU-based player.
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. ;)
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, if you view on standard monitors and TV's.
Hope some of you enjoy these.
Dead^Man NWA
March, 2015
General (Crusade series)
Unique ID : 254829601618497049950873823410768800669 (0xBFB665635BA86701B9204BE1D6036B9D)
Complete name : Babylon5.Crusade.E01.1080p.5.1.DTS.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
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Movie name : Babylon 5: Crusade E01 War Zone 1080p h444 10bit
Encoded date : UTC 2015-03-17 00:44:17
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Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Plague (Credits)
00:04:58.600 : en:Orders to Mars
00:13:54.000 : en:The team
00:22:23.000 : en:Archaeological dig
00:28:40.400 : en:Facing the enemy
00:36:11.800 : en:Serving (End Credits)
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