Macross Laser Disc Preservation

[boinger]

I was looking into upgrading the Crystallio II firmware to 2.10 and found somebody on

the AVS forum had enabled their HDMI audio with Crystallio settings.

Output / Port Configuration / Force DVI Mode / choose automatic for HDMI 2 output and

then there was digital sound!

There is a slight delay in the HDMI audio that needs fixing, but I should be able to capture

digital audio via the hdmi input for the el gato or shuttle intensity.

I'm not sure about capturing uncompressed audio just yet.

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UPDATE:

Confirmed:

Shuttle Intensity captures Linear PCM uncompressed audio.

Problems:

I just need to be able to extract the uncompressed audio from the mp4

without any alterations.

1 minute of Quicktime YUV 8 bit 720p 59.9fps = 2 GB of hard drive space

155 minutes = 300 + GB and I only have a fast 250 GB SSD on the Macbook pro.

Solution:

I can capture one side of a laserdisc and then use Bittorrent Sync to transfer the

file over to my main desktop computer for editing.

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At this point, I'm not sure whether to start with 480i and try fix the video afterwards or

use the Crystallio II and X0 video processors to up-scale, de-interlace and

lessen possible video errors?

The Shuttle Intensity software offers a lot of different High Definition codecs to

create uncompressed video. But, all of these video codecs use up a lot of hard drive space.

720p with an HD codec looks like the maximum resolution that my Macbook pro can capture

video without dropping frames and I have max'ed out my macbook pro hardware.

I can do a 1080p H264 video capture with the El gato or Hauppauge, which would

use less hard drive space. I'm not sure if there is a possiblity of de or un-compressing

the H264 video later.

I have read that un-compressed HD video is less prone to video encoding errors when edited and

then compressed into BD or AVCHD formats.

Edited September 10, 2015 by boinger