1080p HD Demo Disc – Design and Build - Page 2

XBMC (and most other systems like NMT) can read most formats - direct rips/copies of the discs are fine. However, I know that XBMC has trouble with native ACVHD files. So a conversion would be necessary. I think NMT can handle the files though.

Perhaps another perspective would be to have the "raw" source authored as Blu Ray, with the DVD disc bound media offering being the "scaled" down version. As I understand it, this would complicate the authoring process (especially menus) a little. But, I think a fair number of folks these days would prefer to have the demo material at full force - especially if they have the same material already in their media server and could pull it up fairly easily using bookmarks, etc.

Either way, I'm happy to do my part.

Yes - and I even think some user input during the design phase would be welcomed. I'm happy to focus on this.

Kung Fu Panda
"Skadoosh" scene near the end of the movie
Great mid-20s Hz bass and reference Video

Serenity
Federation vs. Reavers battle near the end of the movie
Great Video with good 5.1 surround activity

Incredible Hulk
"Sound Cannon" scene

Transporter 3
"ambulance exploding" near the beginning of the movie
Great deep bass and near reference Video

The Dark Knight
2 scenes: batmobile flipover scene on highway and then the 18-wheeler flip over scene
Both great bass, great surround use, and of course good video

Ratatouille
Shotgun blast scene
Great deep bass

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Fight near the end between the "army" and Hellboy et. all
Outstanding 7.1 surround

Evidence that your wife is no longer at the wheel...

I'm hoping to spend some time this weekend to be able and get some clips of material and let you know chapters and scenes.

Gonna hopefully look at Watchmen, Fast and Furious, TDK, Defiance and whatever else I can get my hands on.

The official 2009 Universal Blu Ray demo disc lists these...don't know that I would agree, but since I found them I thought I would share. Unfortunately they don't include the Chapter and time stamps.

The Bourne Identity (2:13) DD 5.1
The Bourne Supremacy (2:07) DD 5.1
The Bourne Ultimatum (2:26) DD 5.1
Death Race (2:34) DD 5.1
The Express (2:35) DD 5.1
The Tale Of Despereaux (2:18) DD 5.1
Role Models (2:29) DD 5.1
The Fast And The Furious (1:41) DD 5.1
2 Fast 2 Furious (1:21) DD 5.1
The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2:06) DD 5.1

More food for thought...again, not my choices but found on other demo discs elsewhere.

Concorde Promo Blu-Ray Disc 2009

12 Monkeys (1:36) DTS-HD MA 5.1
30 Days Of Night (2:14) DTS 5.1
Alone In The Dark (1:40) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Alpha Dog (2:31) DTS-HD MA 5.1
American Psycho (1:27) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Black Christmas (0:50) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Brothers Grimm (2:38) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Death Sentence (1:27) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Doomsday (1:37) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Iron Man (1:38) DTS-HD MA 5.1
The Italian Job (1:39) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Mr. Brooks (2:34) DTS-HD MA 5.1
The Phantom Of The Opera (1:38) DTS-HD MA 5.1
The Jackal (2:04) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Silent Hill (1:31) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Death At A Funeral (2:14) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Tideland (0:52) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Tomb Raider - Lara Croft (1:33) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Tomb Raider - The Cradle Of Life (2:33) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Underworld (1:37) DTS-HD MA 5.1
The Incredible Hulk (2:26) DTS-HD MA 5.1
We Were Soldiers (1:25) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Asterix And Obelix vs Caesar (1:29) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Babylon A.D. (1:07) DTS-HD MA 5.1
The Big Blue (1:34) DTS-HD MA 5.1
The Fighters (1:33) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar (1:31) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Pathology (0:46) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Twilight (1:31) DTS-HD MA 5.1
Vicky Christina Barcelona (2:33) DTS 5.1
Knowing (1:50) DTS-HD MA 5.1
The Hurt Locker (0:39) DTS-HD MA 5.1

Is there a good way to do Blu-ray integration in XBMC yet? Can you point me to a tutorial for that?

Here are some 1080P trailers that might be handy as source material for someone wanting to test out authoring a hi-def demo disc. Some are also in TrueHD.

http://www.demo-world.eu/trailers/hi...n-trailers.php

There are also some THX trailers here, not Hi Def though.

http://www.demo-world.eu/trailers/thx-captcha.php

Does anyone have a link to a place I can learn about free DVD authoring tools? Or even low cost tools. I'd like to see if I can make some of these THX trailers into a disc but I'm a noob at this.

Race to Witch Mountain

Chapter1 at 3mins. to 4mins.
Ship crash landing and helicopters
surround

Chapter 3 at 13mins. and 58sec.to 17 mins.
Chase scene
surround effects and some LFE

Chapter 4 at 23 mins. to 27 mins. and 30 secs.
Alien fight, Explosions and getting away
Surround & LFE

Chapter 5 at 30 mins. & 35 secs. to 32 mins.
Alien Chase & Train Crash
Surround & LFE

Chapter 11 at 1 hr & 24 mins to 1hr 28mins and 26secs.
Escape in ship
Surround & LFE

A lot from the same movie but it had good effects and family friendly.

Fast & Furious

Chapter 1 at 35 secs. to 7 mins. & 30 secs.
Opening Scene
Surround and LFE

Chapter 8 at 37 mins. & 30 secs. to 44 mins.
Race for driver spot
Surround some LFE

Chapter 11 at 58 mins. & 15 secs. to 1hr 1 min. & 21 secs.
Desert smuggle run thru tunnel
Surround effects

Chapter 11 at 1hr 3 mins & 46 secs to 1 hr 4mins. 30 secs.
"I'm gonna enjoy what happens next"
LFE

Chapter 15 1hr 18 mins. & 26 secs. to 1hr 19 mins. 12 secs.
FBI
Effects

Chapter 17 1hr 28 mins. & 33 secs. to 1hr 35mins. 50 secs.(stopping at 50 secs. avoids swear)
Getting Braga
Effects and LFE

I have a Bluray drive, and I backup all my Blurays. also, I could seed or try to host a FTP site too. if there's anything that I could do, please do let me know!!

have blu-ray writer here i would like to make these on blu-ray if possible ?

A full Blu-Ray version is being considered. It does require extra effort in the authoring and design phase as opposed to the original project charter. But, if enough people chime in with similar wishes I think it will get bumped up the priority list.

Always LOVED your theater! Since you seem to have a collection...how about posting some clips that you think should be included?

I'm still waiting to get my hands on Akira (anime) so can't give you exact timestamps yet, but there are apparently some scenes that go down to 18Hz.

As soon as amazon deliver i'll update you with times!

Cheers,
Simon

Great project guys!

"Children of Men" has some great combat scenes. Definitely the plane crash in "Knowing" - 0:38:55... and the subway scene - 1:00:57

If someone has the BR disc of "The Flight of Phoenix", can you post the chapter and time of plane crash scene?

I just started reading this thread - great project !!!

I'll be lining up to buy (beg or steal) the finished product.

Those are great links!

"Children of Men" & "Knowing" both have good LFE and surround use. Knowing's video quality is pretty good too.


"Knowing" DTS-HD MSTR (Good LFE & Surround)

The plane crash in "Knowing" - 00:38:55 - 00:41:11

The subway crash scene - 01:00:52 - 01:02:26


"Rise of the Lycans" TrueHD (Good LFE & Surround)

Werewolf chase scene - 00:04:19 - 00:06:22


"Children of Men" LPCM (? Not sure if I changed it when ripping) (Great combat scene LFE, surround)

Rebels vs Army - 01:26:13 - 01:31:07


"Ironman" TrueHD (Good LFE and surround)

Taken Hostage - 00:02:19 - 00:03:53

Jericho (crazy LFE) - 00:15:11 - 00:15:48

Sounds like this is going to be more of an audio than a video demo disc, am I right?

I look at it more from a user's choice point of view. Once a comprehensive list of clips are submitted, they'll get organized and then folks will "vote" - just with comments in this thread. I think it is fair to say that swithey has the final say on what gets included, but this effort really should be all about what people want.

I think hi rez Audio is more exciting then visual. But, really there are movies with both great video and audio. Those are what we'd like to have on our disc.

Maybe something from "Planet Earth" ?