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Subject: Re: REQ: North By Northwest (1959)
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Thanks, worked very nicely! Turns out I had the program and was just
a question of finding it (and now pinning it to the taskbar). Looks
like it will work for fixing messed up aspect ratios in mkv's as well.
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:08:50 -0500, Colonel Buckshot
<buckshot@buckshot.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:42:24 -0400, Free Agent <freeagent@nospam.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Right, Scotty's recent dvd quality rip in post-1960 was fine, but I
>>was looking for something in 720p or 1080p where you see the
>>difference on an hdtv. So I checked here:
>>
>>http://www.nzbindex.nl/search/?q=north+by+northwest&age=&max=250&minage=&sort=agedesc&minsize=500&maxsize=&dq=&poster=&nfo=&hidespam=0&hidespam=1&more=1
>>
>>The 10gb post at 869 days in 1080p worked fine for me. Only the
>>default audio is in mono French so had to switch to the second audio
>>stream which which is in 5.1 English and there were no English subs so
>>found some at opensubtitles.org.
>>
>Don't know whether it's worth the effort to you, but you can use
>'mkvmerge gui", a small utility which can 'rejigger' the files in the
>mkv container so that 1) you can reset the default language to English
>and 2) add the English subtitle to the container, either turning it on
>or off by default. The utility uses a very straightforward interface,
>and the process of 'recoding' the mkv settings is fairly quick, as
>well. Not so much a 'recode' as creating a new mkv with the existing
>material, just with re-set defaults.
>
>Just a thought for getting yourself a more convenient mkv for future
>viewing.
>
>Colonel Buckshot
>
>
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