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Weird. Are you saying we should use that now? I don't think mine look a bit orange, do they? Taxi Driver being one.
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So before now you've been using something else Tom? Makes trying to maintain a standard rather pointless when you've been completely ignoring it.
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Nope. I've always been using VirtualDubMod (same as you).
But for some reason, it's now giving me orange-looking caps.

I can't even begin to understand why (don't recall changing any settings).
All I know is VirtualDub 1.7.8 doesn't have this problem.
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FYI Tom:

There is a file called AuxSetup.exe in the VirtualDub folder, run it and choose to remove the registry settings. I'd uninstall and reinstall the handler (AVIFile) too.

See if that fixes the problem.
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tom2681 wrote:Nope. I've always been using VirtualDubMod (same as you).
But for some reason, it's now giving me orange-looking caps.

I can't even begin to understand why (don't recall changing any settings).
All I know is VirtualDub 1.7.8 doesn't have this problem.
Hmm so long as the cap is the source frame then it should as exactly as it should be.

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/test.vob
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/1.png
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/2.png
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/3.png
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/test.sfv

Just to be sure there's not something odd with your display I produced the above. Take matching caps and see if the checksums match those in the sfv file (QuickSFV etc). Not the greatest choice of scene f you're getting orangeness but hey...
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Thanks Lourdes.
*Testing*

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... ODCAP1.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... 78CAP1.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/1.png

Nope, then.
It's not my display and it's not my PC.

My VDubMod's cap is orange (like yours).
VDub178's cap has more red.

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Let's get a closer look now. Which VDub version has the right colours?

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... ODCAP3.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... 78CAP3.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... -Haali.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/3.png

I've included a cap taken with MPC + DScaler + Haali renderer.
Note that the only cap that looks completely different is the VirtualDubMod one.

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I think we should stop using VirtualDubMod for DVD vs HD comparisons.
The only reason why we hadn't noticed this problem before is because we were always comparing DVD to DVD.
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tom2681 wrote:I think we should stop using VirtualDubMod for DVD vs HD comparisons.
The only reason why we hadn't noticed this problem before is because we were always comparing DVD to DVD.
I don't think we really need to change anything, there are more differences than just that with the DVD and HD comparisons to begin with, see here for example - https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/test . The difference between VDub and VDubMod is smaller than the difference between the BD and both. It's the level of detail we look for with SD vs. DVD, not little colour differences.
In addition VDub + MPEG2 plugin seems to display interlacing that isn't there and to save images you have to copy / paste into an image editor / save which is rather tedious. I think I even added a disclaimer after some of my HD comparisons about ignoring small differences in hue.
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You're right. I noticed that weird interlacing issue with VirtualDub too.

In your example, the difference in hue between BD and VDubMod is huge.
Of course sharpness is more important than hue, but we do these comparisons to see what the transfers look like.
Fact is: VirtualDubMod does not accurately represent what DVD transfers look like.

The only thing I can recommend at this time is:
-Media Player Classic.
-DScaler Mpeg-2 filter with deinterlacing set to "weave".
-Haali renderer.

...or PowerDVD with the settings that we've included in the first post of this thread.
That still works.
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For SD comparisons there is no reason to change anything. Until now not a soul has noticed this and thought that the caps didn't look accurate, and because all caps are taken using the same method it's not a problem. It's also the easiest method by far, I've done about a hundred comparisons and God knows how many discs within those; without VDuBMod's slide > Shift+1 > Enter each comparison would take five times longer and I wouldn't have done half of the comparisons I have done.

For HD stuff there's a problem, I agree. I only do such comparisons as a showcase as we all know the HD release is the one to have, but you are right, we should try to make things as even as possible.
There's an easier method to use though Tom. Forget DScaler5, use the MPC-HC internal MPEG2 decoder set to Weave.
I think I'll start to do this for any new HD comparisons, it will mean I include fewer discs and take less caps but hey.
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Don't thank me too then :( ;).
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Too many tech terms. Are my SD caps correct? They are 100% identical to Lourdes' SD caps.
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https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=4496
Not on the list.

@Hung,
No you have to go and redo them all.
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Yeah, thought so. I guess I have to take a few day off from work now to correct them all. Damn.
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Yeah, I need to re-do 200 comparisons myself.
That'll be fun. :D

@Lourdes:
Ah, I knew I had missed one or two of your anime comparisons.
Thanks.
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HungFist wrote:Too many tech terms. Are my SD caps correct?
My thoughts too :D.

I won't be doing mine again, sorry. It takes way too long.
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tom2681 wrote:@Lourdes:
Ah, I knew I had missed one or two of your anime comparisons.
Thanks.
I was looking for it because I couldn't find my script for the R3K and I remembered that the R1 might not be so bad.
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Patlabor Blu-Ray goes to the comparisons cemetary.
I was hoping to break the 400 barrier this month, but I keep running into dead comparisons. :x
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Can you add Il Mare to the list pleas. It's now a comparison and I always use Lourdes procedure, so it's accurate.
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400 comparisons. We made it!
Not bad for a small forum that has less than 20 regular members, eh? :D
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Old Paprika comparison is dead now.
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As promised, I'll do a Terminator 2 HD comparison over the weekend.
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What comparison method / software are we using now?
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I'm not sure what Salty or Captainjoe use (something else I think) but everyone else uses:

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=2428

It's the third quotation set in the first post. AKA Lourdes's instructions.
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I think I should have just ignored Tom and kept with VDubMod for HD stuff as there's still a difference in colours when using MPC-HC and its internal decoders + Haali. But mostly because it's a right bloody pain!
I'll be doing the GitS: SAC 'movie' trilogy sometime, that will be fun with the quirky navigation and tap-tap-tap-bloody-tapping of the frame step key.
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MPEG2 HD stuff I presume?
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