On Top Gear October this 24th

Originally Posted by Wutputt In one of the upcoming episodes, JC will make a review of two Jaguar S-type 2.7d's and a S-type R on the Nordschleife. They were spotted by some friends of mine mid September.

Very cool Dude, Jeremy's a real Jag fan so his review is bound to be cool...

[evoWalo]

was your friend able to meet JC?

[evoWalo]

Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer?

[Darkel]

Originally Posted by Wutputt In one of the upcoming episodes, JC will make a review of two Jaguar S-type 2.7d's and a S-type R on the Nordschleife. They were spotted by some friends of mine mid September.

Wow, that an amazing sight

[Jabba]

Originally Posted by evoWALO Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer?

There is a post all about this somewhere. Basically I have a dedicated PC hooked up to my Sky + Digital box which provides excellent results. However no matter how good the source is cutting a file down from 3 GIG to 180 MB obviously looses a lot of the extra quality gained.

Originally Posted by Jabba Originally Posted by evoWALO Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer? There is a post all about this somewhere. Basically I have a dedicated PC hooked up to my Sky + Digital box which provides excellent results. However no matter how good the source is cutting a file down from 3 GIG to 180 MB obviously looses a lot of the extra quality gained.

Indeed but the result is more than watchable IMO and you provide Hi Res features of the best bits too which is cool . Not sure how much difference HDTV will make my brother was going on about it the other day.... 2006 i think we get it over here. :roll: **EDIT** also if you bumped the file size up too much those with slower connections will take ages to get it.... not to mention the upload time for you

[Jabba]

Originally Posted by AL123 Originally Posted by Jabba Originally Posted by evoWALO Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer? There is a post all about this somewhere. Basically I have a dedicated PC hooked up to my Sky + Digital box which provides excellent results. However no matter how good the source is cutting a file down from 3 GIG to 180 MB obviously looses a lot of the extra quality gained. Indeed but the result is more than watchable IMO and you provide Hi Res features of the best bits too which is cool . Not sure how much difference HDTV will make my brother was going on about it the other day.... 2006 i think we get it over here. :roll: **EDIT** also if you bumped the file size up too much those with slower connections will take ages to get it.... not to mention the upload time for you

Yep... do you know what the resolution for our HDTV is going to be...with some luck it might be similar to a DVD or something.

[evoWalo]

HDTV resolutions are 1920x1080i (i for interlaced) and 1280 x 720p (p for progressive) while PAL is either 720 x 486, 720 x 576 or 768 x 576. The PAL resolution is the same with DVDs.

"Capturing" HDTV signal into a TV is like downloading vids off the Net. No more need for convertions. You just need a HDTV tuner and a very fast rig ala Jabba's monster computer. After removing the copyprotection flags it's just a matter of transfering. A 44min 1920x1080i HDTV program weighed about 5.1GB. I'm guessing Top Gear would be about 7GB and 5th Gear about 3GB. Needless to say this is grossly impractical for almost all.

This isnt a real good comparison but this is the best I could find. Hope you get a picture (pun intended) of what am talking about.

BTW Jabba I've seen your Top Gear - Stig Compilation.avi encode and so far it's the best looking Top Gear clip I've seen so far.

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Most of the XVid HDTV program convertions I've seen have a resolution of 624x352 @ 350MB for a 44min TV program but increasingly some encoders are now offering 1028x576p (p for progressive) @ 700MB for 44min TV programs. Either size are perfect to be stored on a 700MB CD-R, if that's your thing. Heck some encodes even come with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound but that's useless if you dont have that kind of setup.

If anyone's interested I have a Chevy commercial of the pickup convertible (the very one made fun by JC) whose resolution is 1280 x 720p. Just downloaded it cause I was wondering how it looked like. So if anyone has an ftp and wants to host it send me a PM. It weighs in at under 25MB for a 30sec clip.

[Jabba]

I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1

Originally Posted by Jabba I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1

LOL i'm, not fussy though obviously i prefer dvd rips to some horrible cam jobs... and was suprised to get a decent quality rip of the bourne supremacy recently that included 5 channel sound... didn't know that was possible with divx.... though we played it off my laptop at the time so we don't know is it was "true" surround sound

[evoWalo]

true surround sound involves digital coax cable or a optical cable. anything else is just emulation.

[Jabba]

Originally Posted by AL123 Originally Posted by Jabba I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1 LOL i'm, not fussy though obviously i prefer dvd rips to some horrible cam jobs... and was suprised to get a decent quality rip of the bourne supremacy recently that included 5 channel sound... didn't know that was possible with divx.... though we played it off my laptop at the time so we don't know is it was "true" surround sound

I have done a few divx rips with 5.1...quite easy to do.... you just add the AC3 5.1 track to the video you are encoding with something like virtualdub.

If someone wanted to convert the Divx later to make a proper DVD and enjoy the 5.1 on a home cinema setup or something...then they only need to separate the sound channel and import it into a good dvd authoring programme that supports 5.1. I still use the very old programme "spruce up" to convert the many movies that I have downloaded that have been encoded with 5.1 sound.

Originally Posted by Jabba Originally Posted by AL123 Originally Posted by Jabba I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1 LOL i'm, not fussy though obviously i prefer dvd rips to some horrible cam jobs... and was suprised to get a decent quality rip of the bourne supremacy recently that included 5 channel sound... didn't know that was possible with divx.... though we played it off my laptop at the time so we don't know is it was "true" surround sound I have done a few divx rips with 5.1...quite easy to do.... you just add the AC3 5.1 track to the video you are encoding with something like virtualdub. If someone wanted to convert the Divx later to make a proper DVD and enjoy the 5.1 on a home cinema setup or something...then they only need to separate the sound channel and import it into a good dvd authoring programme that supports 5.1. I still use the very old programme "spruce up" to convert the many movies that I have downloaded that have been encoded with 5.1 sound.

Cool, my dvix dvd player played the 5 channel sound no problem too.... i think sorround stuff for the front room will be next on our to buy list... after cable tv

[Jabba]

Yep its not that expensive to buy now either...I don't have the best set up in the world...but I do have an active sub...and with something like T2 with 5.1 or DTS its certainly worth every penny.

Originally Posted by Jabba Yep its not that expensive to buy now either...I don't have the best set up in the world...but I do have an active sub...and with something like T2 with 5.1 or DTS its certainly worth every penny.

One of those all in one packages or did you buy seperate "bits" (the technical term for it )