ThomasTheSpider | 37 points
I have been working through a number of animated tv shows which are not available in HD using Waifu2x to upscale to 1080p from the original VOB files. Here is Season 1 of The Boondocks.
https://mega.nz/#F!hEpwUTZK
Key: !z1SCo_KeEQk-wdvd2f3eSA
Gfycat example: https://gfycat.com/ShallowUnknownChuckwalla
[-] Red__Rain77 | 2 points
Thank you :)
What other series are you working on?
[-] WaifuKenny | 3 points
He mentioned he was doing Futurama too.
[-] PricelessPersuader | 2 points
Now how do you go about doing this? You should make a tutorial and release your scripts because there are a ton of shows I would like to do this to.
[-] ThomasTheSpider | 2 points
I'll work on getting a guide written up.
[-] ThomasTheSpider | 2 points
https://www.reddit.com/r/megalinks/comments/5yjiid/tv_samuraijacks011080pdvdripwaifu2xx265kfv/df194gg/
[-] IsaiasSkywalker | 2 points
Wow, for the file size I thought they would look even worse than my 4GB Season 1 which looks terrible and the best one I can find that's uncensored, Your work is magical, and for anyone wondering this link contains both S1 and S2 both uncensored. Thank you Thomas!
Do you by any chance take requests?
[-] ThomasTheSpider | 1 points
No sorry, I've got enough backlog of shows I want done currently but I have written a guide for anyone else wanting to do it https://www.reddit.com/r/megalinks/comments/5yjiid/tv_samuraijacks011080pdvdripwaifu2xx265kfv/df194gg/
Awesome, thanks. I've got a show I like that's a bit obscure, and was cancelled, called Ugly Americans, It's pretty great, closest thing is probably futurama, but this is more crude.
Thanks for the info!
[-] ThomasTheSpider | 1 points
Ugly Americans is already available in HD, I can upload my copies if you like
It is? The version I have is kinda old and bad, that'd be much appreciated, thanks.
[-] ThomasTheSpider | 1 points
[-] AlucardXza | 1 points
Any chance of us getting season 2? :)
[-] ThomasTheSpider | 2 points
It's already up, check the same link
[-] Xx3liteSnip3rxX | 4 points | Mar 15 2017 07:08:56
I'm very glad you're doing this, but I have 1 suggestion...
I downloaded the first episode and noticed that the framerate has been changed from the original DVD retail release which was 29.976 -> 23.976. I only noticed this because there is alot of stutter especially with alot of movement in frames. I also know that the source is interlaced, so changing the framerate is usually a bad idea with interlaced content (removing pulldown blah blah all that stuff).
Other than that, the quality is superb and it looks like a real WEB-DL release, I have never seen this show in better quality. I can't get ahold of the newer DVD retail otherwise I'd make my own x265 encodes. Please do Season 2 of The Boondocks if you have it at its original framerate if I may request lol.
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[-] rednight39 | 2 points | Mar 16 2017 00:39:58
24fps is the correct framerate for animated content, not 30, it just needs to be converted properly from the DVD source.
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[-] ThomasTheSpider | 1 points | Mar 17 2017 03:03:59
As above 23.976fps is the original framerate for this content.
I've tried my best to remove the dupe and interlaced frames but the method I'm using is not perfect.
If anyone has a perfect IVTC method which could be implemented while exporting to PNG then I would love to hear about it.
Also doing 29.97fps wouldn't look better as all the dupe and interlaced frames would still be there, plus it increases the upscaling time from around 40 hours for 7 episodes to over 50 hours.
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[-] rednight39 | 1 points | Mar 17 2017 03:42:21
Are you familiar with avisynth? I haven't used it in about ten years (I used to make these files from my own TV recordings), but it's a very, very flexible tool.
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[-] ThomasTheSpider | 1 points | Mar 17 2017 03:52:23
Yes I am familiar with AviSynth, if you can show me a better IVTC plugin for it then I will feed ffmpeg with avs files which do the IVTC.
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