Doctor Who returns 15th April

[vhelp]

Thanks LS. But, as much as I love Procoder (v1.5 here) I much rather
leave certain things up to vdub/TMPGenc (or via AVIsynth) And in this
case, I resorted to leaving them up to AVIsynth

But, I got it sorted out now, and I can live with the results I have
so far. They are quite good, IMHO. I'll have to UPLOAD some sample
clips soon. I was meaning to get that ball rolling, but I've been
very busy on a few programming projects and other things, that it had
kept me from accomplishing my usual sample clips routines, hehe.

-vhelp 3923

[Cole]

Gotta question for ya. Are you archiving (capturing) the series at all ??

Yes, I am archiving this series but maybe not in the way that you would imagine.

Last year, I captured the episodes from a digital receiver attached to an ADVC-50 and then converted the file to VCD standard (with the audio at 48000htz) and letterboxed. Before anyone has a fit and screams "WHY?" it is because I will be buying the commercial DVD releases when they are out. What I have in the meantime is the whole series of thirteen episodes on two DVD-Rs until I have the commerical release.

My VCD-DVDs are also worth hanging onto for nostalgic purposes as there are minor differences to the released version than the television broadcast version. An example of this is on the episode Rose; for some bizarre reason there is extra music on the episode's soundtrack on the commerical release.

Since the last series I have got a DVD Recorder and will now capture to that in two hour mode and then convert this to VCD-DVD-R.

Other series that have received this treatment recently has been series four of Spooks (I think this is called MI-5 in the US), series three of Sea Of Souls and series three of Little Britain; all of which the DVD releases take about a year to appear.

As for outcome of my usual off-air archive recordings (e.g. all of the recent UK hit Life On Mars) they are now (apart from the occasional ADVC-50 capture as back-up) recorded on two hour mode on my DVD-Recorder, ripped to hard drive, edited and re-authored to DVD-R. Obviously these are all in PAL mode, but I will have to go for "don't care to bother" because as long as I have a decent recording of the desired television programme I am quite happy.