[REL] Black Jack (1979) Director's Cut DVDRip x264

[meeno]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078870/

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This is told from the perspective of the boy.
And I would say it is only the beginning of a love story.

The story has to do with a young girl named Belle Carter (played with a keen intensity by Louise Cooper), whose parents consider her insane.
The occasion of an older sister's prestigious marriage induces the parents to pack Belle off to an asylum, because they fear their new in-laws
may think the child's problem is hereditary. In fact, she has been violent and uncommunicative since she suffered a severe fever at age 5.

But Belle escapes in midjourney, aided by Tolly (Stephen Hirst), a boy her own age, and Black Jack (Jean Franval), a surly, mysterious Frenchman
who has miraculously survived his own hanging as the film begins. These three refugees fall in with an itinerant circus of sorts.

Key figures in the circus are three dwarves, a shyster doctor who sells youth serum (Packy Byrne), and a small boy (Andrew Bennett),
who is growing into quite a large thief. This boy quickly solves the mystery of Belle's origins and sets to work cheerfully blackmailing
both her parents and the asylum proprietors who've lost her.

Info: 98min MKV 1,07GiB
Video: 672x560 1:1.75 25fps x264
Audio: aac 48kHz two tracks: English and French
Subtitles: English sub/idx, You will need them!

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[FLL]

Thanks meeno!

Well done release post (and file naming of the rip)!

This is completely unknown to me (and I suspect most here) and looks interesting!

One question about the tech specs though: I assume the 672x560 resolution is a typo? The screenshots are 978x560 (which matches the aspect ratio).

[loverboy]

I'm vaguely aware of this (although I've not seen it), probably because it's directed by Ken Loach, one of our more controversial & celebrated directors/writers. Ken Loach is testimony to the fact that censorship is alive & well in the UK..........at least two of his movies were initially banned & some have remained dormant & unreleased for years. I've watched many of his offerings including Kes (released here), Poor Cow, Up The Junction & Cathy Come Home & look forward to this release. This will be well worth watching & should provoke interesting responses.
Good release meeno......Thank You!

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[meeno]

One question about the tech specs though: I assume the 672x560 resolution is a typo? The screenshots are 978x560 (which matches the aspect ratio).

XviD/DivX encodings are usually done with square pixels to be compatible with stand alone players. Also Windows Media Player is too dumb to show anamorph encodings in an AVI container correctly.

Now with MKV and H.264 it is possible to use anamorph encodings or rectangular pixels as every player should be able to show this properly.

So the video has a resolution of 672x560 but the encoded display ascpect ratio will force the player to show it with about 978x560 square pixels. ( VLC and KMPlayer come to slighty different results sometimes )

[FLL]

XviD/DivX encodings are usually done with square pixels to be compatible with stand alone players. Also Windows Media Player is too dumb to show anamorph encodings in an AVI container correctly.

Now with MKV and H.264 it is possible to use anamorph encodings or rectangular pixels as every player should be able to show this properly.

So the video has a resolution of 672x560 but the encoded display ascpect ratio will force the player to show it with about 978x560 square pixels. ( VLC and KMPlayer come to slighty different results sometimes )

Ah. I am used to seeing anamorphic rips having separate listings for pixel resolution and display resolution so I didn't immediately suspect that. I also am used to seeing such a cropped anamorphic PAL rip having a display resolution of 672x384 not 978x560, though now that I think about it that's probably more just a choice by rippers or default settings of the ripping software or just what I've noticed, and not really material. I have only done a couple of anamorphic rips to experiment with Handbrake, never posted them.

I am one of those who rarely watch movies on the computer, and in my opinion external hardware to view MKVs is still not quite mature yet. I liken it to the situation a few years ago where quite often a DivX/XviD rip wouldn't play on the most common DVD players because of QPEL. My only way to view MKVs usually ignores the encoded display aspect ratio, so I sometimes reencode them. That will obviously change over time but for now such rips are less common so it's not enough to make me go out and buy something else. I have seen statements by x264/MKV fans that in 18 months it will be ubiquitous and effectively replace DivX but I don't think it will be that quick, eventually they will be right but the timeline is too aggressive. Too much of an installed DivX base. HD rips are the exception and the driving force.

[meeno]

Hmm, interesting, your MKV viewer does not honor the DAR?
What is it called?
Does it also in this case? The DAR here is in the H.264 stream. This should never be ignored.
I could understand if special conversion factors in the MKV container are ignored.

To achieve the best quality I use full resolution without resizing. So in this case I got 672x560 after cropping.
The picture is bouncing a bit vertically so I had to crop more vertically and could not get closer to the intended 1:1.66 aspect ratio.
If you don't do resizing there is not much choice left.

As for external hardware players: I have mine nearly three years now. But you are right they still appear immature.
I'm hoping for DVD-Players with upscalers and DivX Plus HD. So I'm already encoding to this hardware profile.

The picture quality on this DVD is not so great. A 800MB DivX/Xvid rip might have been adequate.
I'm just used to this way now.

Maybe someone reencodes this.

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Thanks to all who have helped to distribute this! I'm impressed.