Improve DVD video quality Seinfeld

would be interesting project also for other content, because sometimes DVD have missing or better german audio than some new 4k discs. Sometimes they do german AC3 on 4k disc or just Atmos 2.0 while DVD has 5.1 German DTS.

first step find out fps of the DVD, then fps of the Blu-Ray (ok you don’t have it yet but check on web) Then check film duration, must be the same.

Check if it’s PAL DVD or NTSC. When it is PAL, maybe you must slow down audio track by factor 0.95904 (23.976 fps / 25 fps). But i’m not sure, just try, or maybe some else can tell you

short; yes should be possible and it seems to be not very hard, but sure you must try around a little bit. You can do it with Dolby Surround [AC3], DTS or Atmos not, then you have to convert this into AC3 first.

Copy/paste text below or your own text into ChatGPT. Before you start, compare DVD and blu-ray video is the exactly same content, otherwise you cant adapt audio from DVD to blu-ray.

example ChatGPT ask

 I have the *Seinfeld* series on PAL DVDs with German audio, and the *Seinfeld* 4K UHD Blu-ray without a German track. How can I sync the German audio from the DVDs with the 4K Blu-ray video so that I can mux them together? 

Edit:Sorry I was wrong, it also works works with DTS and Atmos by using free eac3to (command line tool), it can handle TrueHD, E-AC3, AC-3, DTS Core, DTS-HD MA and DTS:X

If you’re OK with command lines, you can use ffmpeg. Something like:

ffmpeg -i “blu-ray.mp4” -itsoffset 1.3 -i “DVD with audio.mkv” -acodec copy -vcodec copy -scodec copy -map 0:v -map 1:a -map 1:s -max_interleave_delta 0 “New Blu-Ray.mkv”

-i represents the input file(s), here you would use 2 of them
-ccodec copy indicates ffmpeg should copy the video purely verbatim
-acodec copy indicates ffmpeg should copy the audio verbatim
-scodec copy for subtitles
-map 0:v means the video should be taken from the first file (#0)
-map 1:a means the video should be taken from the 2nd file (#1)
-map 1:s will collect subtitles from the 2nd file (not sure which one you want)

if you have a lot of files, you can write a little shell script with a for command, depends on your operating system. I have written a few for Windows and macOS a while ago, will be happy to share examples.

Hope this helps!

Edit: I haven’t experienced slowing down the audio, there should be a way by adding something like: -filter:a “atempo=0.95904” (based on Mayday’s math above). It could also be that you need 1/0.95904 as a factor.

I just discovered that there are also older models :rofl: that you can unlock in the new version 1.0… Can someone briefly explain this to me, and are these perhaps better?

I always had such a soft look, like the faces and jacket, etc. And the text in the background was weird, I don’t know how else to describe it.

Now I’ve seen that there are Proteus V1, V2, V3, V4, etc. I haven’t looked at the other models yet; I’m currently testing V2.