Hoshi no Koe (Voices of a Distant Star)
Created/Updated 2002-07-04
- Catalog Number : MZDV-0001
- Manufacturer : Manga Zoo
- Series : Hoshi no Koe
- Printing Date : 2002-04-19
- Region : 2
- Price : Y5,800
- Play Time : 25 minutes plus other stuff
- Number of Discs : 1
- Number of Sides per Disc : 1
- Number of Layers (side1) : 1
- Number of Layers (side2) : N/A
- Audio1 : Japanese Linear PCM 2ch (professional)
- Audio2 : Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1ch (professional)
- Audio3 : Japanese Linear PCM 2ch (original)
- Audio4 : Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1ch (original)
- Subtitle1 : English for a version of Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko
Animephile Rating: B (8.0)
- Video Scan Type : progressive (-0.0) -
It is animated/rendered at 15 frames per second. See main comments.
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -2.0 -
Doh!
- Video Separation : -0.0
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.0
Comments:
It is, without a doubt, animated at 15 frames per second. As far as I
can tell, MPEG stream is marked as 30-frames per second progressive
with every frame being repeated twice (literally, not as flags, since
I don't think double-repeat flags are allowed for DVD encoding).
Using WinDVD (either auto or force-weave) will give you correct 30
frames per second with changes occuring every other frame only.
That's all good and all. Unfortunately, it appears that the fields
are offset by one. That means, if you use dScaler or other
line-doubler, unless it knows to match up fields between current and
previous frame, it will never know that the original video was from
progressive material. I do not know how or why this happened on this
DVD, but either way, I highly recommend you use WinDVD-type
flag-reading DVD player to view this title. It is quite gorgeous that
way. Too bad compression is kind of horrible.
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| 1/15 | 1/15 | Original
| Frame B | Frame C | Frames
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| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| What I'd have expected
| B1 B2 | B1 B2 | C1 C2 | C1 C2 | on DVD
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| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| 1/60| What's on
| A1 B2 | B1 B2 | B1 C2 | C1 C2 | C1 D2 | the DVD
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Image1: Yikes! Blocks!
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