2008-02-22, 21:09 | Link #22 | |
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The good news is after running share for 5 days, I got all the raws I needed anyway. On the other hand, I have an idea to do easy transport stream capture: Buy a HD blu-ray recorder (they've come down to around $500)... They record the mpeg streams directly to internal hard drive, but you can also copy to BD-R's... Then it's just a matter of extracting mpeg transport streams from Blu-ray discs you've burnt yourself, which I believe should be relatively simple...
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2008-02-23, 05:37 | Link #25 |
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Don't the recorders transcode to AVCHD on the fly though? Thus not preserving the original stream.
EDIT: Hm, guess they don't. Son of EDIT: Or I guess they do. Must depend on the model. Last edited by Eeknay; 2008-02-23 at 06:00. |
2008-02-23, 08:30 | Link #26 | |
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At least judging by the printed times, it says a standard BD-R 1 layer can hold 2.5 hours of HD tv broadcasts. So doing the math, that 150 minutes being 25 GB, which works out to be around 22 Mb/s... The max over the air bitrate is 24 Mb/s so I can only assume that the player simply records the transport streams directly.
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2008-02-24, 13:57 | Link #27 |
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Quarkboy,
There are quite a few ways of capturing and decrypting TS streams. Depending on your knowledge and time you have to mess with it, you may be able to do this at a fairly low cost ( ~15-30$ ) or more expensive if you do not have the needed knowledge or time ( some companies sell devices ~270$ for the whole TS capture/decryption package ). This is somewhat well documented, but It's a bit too much to discuss on a public forum, so I'll PM you where you can contact me on IRC to discuss about it. As for your current capture device which captures to encrypted streams, I'm not aware of its internal workings, but it would be possible to find out ( is there any software which you can use to play it on a pc? if not, possiblities of dumping the flash? software updates? what processor the code is running on? all of this can be reverse engineered and tools can be made, but i don't know the exact amount of work that this could take without actually knowing more about your system ) . |
2008-02-28, 21:09 | Link #28 |
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In answer to the closed captions question; capper pointed me towards this, which I just tested with a TS from NHK-E, and it works perfectly. The bare basic setup will just output to a TXT with no spacing or timestamps or anything, but after fiddling for five minutes you can get it to output to HTML with colours for differnet lines/sound effects, proper spacing, etc, probably a multitude of other options I haven't discovered yet.
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2008-03-01, 19:39 | Link #30 | |
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I know that one piece, pretty cure, sugo chara, and probably any other sunday or saturday morning anime gets captions. Gundam 00 and other prime time anime also has them, if I recall. But I've never seen captions on any late night anime, EXCEPT for Noitamina shows.
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2008-03-01, 20:53 | Link #32 | |
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Yeah, it seems like those two that air on TBS have closed captions, but their airings on BS-i doesn't have them. I couldn't find any other currently airing late night show with CC other than those two and Hakaba no Kitaro. I'm sure it depends on when and where the show airs, but CC are rare on late night animes in my experience so far. (I kind of care about them because watching the shows raw with CC on is a lot easier than just audio listening... Yay for living in Japan )
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2008-03-02, 08:59 | Link #33 |
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Okay, I've found a way to get raw transport streams, at least. And it might even be legal.
If I buy one of these newish blu-ray recorders that are out there with built in tuners, they record the transport stream directly without reencoding, INCLUDING the captions and other digital television features. And since it's recorded to a blu-ray, I can then just open up the disc on my PC with anydvd or maybe even just normal software (since discs I record myself wouldn't be copy protected, probably?) to get the .m2ts files. Then us tsmuxer to convert the m2ts to ts, open up in the previous linked caption extraction program, and extract away. I realize there are probably cheaper black market devices like the frillo that would enable direct ripping, but I think a blu-ray recorder might be nice to have anyway. Am I missing something here that would foil my plans?
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2008-03-02, 11:28 | Link #35 |
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If it's going to BD, then it's probably going to have to convert the subs to BDN/SUP format... so CCats will probably have no idea what to make of them. You'll have to use SUPread and OCR the subs, which will slow things down a lot.
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I saw a blog entry about an HD-DVD recorder that played back the captions perfectly as they originally are, so I assumed the blu-rays just store remuxed ts files.
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