ANNOUNCE: EARL'S COURT 6.6.77 PAL Snivlle Remastered Disc 1

Announce on the Queenzone torrent tracker as mentioned by a few people in the next topic:
http://www.queenzone.com/queenzone/forumnew/forum_topic_view.aspx?Q=1037938

This is depending on disc 1 and quality is amazing good.

I copy/paste all the technical information from the original thread here below.
Thanks to the original poster/creator (snivlle) of these DVD-set.
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Artist:
QUEEN

Show or Bootleg Title:
Earl's Evening Races :: Disc 2 (Snivlle Remastered Edition) Dolby 5.1
Disc 1 or 2 DVD set.

Show Venue:
Earl's Court, London, UK

Source:
Video - Pro Shot DVD

Video Quality/Production Info:
(8.75/10) "A-"

Format:
PAL

Set List/Chapters:
[DISC 1]
Procession
Tie Your Mother Down
Ogre Battle
White Queen (As It Began)
Somebody To Love
Killer Queen
Good Old Fashioned Loverboy
The Millionaire Waltz
You're My Best Friend
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Death On Two Legs
Doing All Right
Brighton Rock

[DISC 2]
'39
You Take My Breath Away
White Man
The Prophet's Song
Bohemian Rhapsody
Keep Yourself Alive
Stone Cold Crazy
In The Lap Of The Gods
Now I'm Here
Liar
Rock n' Roll Medley
Lucille
Jailhouse Rock
Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting
Stupid Cupid
Be Bop A Lula

Checksums or Fingerprints:
0592048fb22045159d193ad969f69cdd *VIDEO_TS.BUP
0592048fb22045159d193ad969f69cdd *VIDEO_TS.IFO
774703b2abe6f493cce1fe86ab9555c3 *VIDEO_TS.VOB
e636f08d2a9b9ee68d95faf93912293f *VTS_01_0.BUP
e636f08d2a9b9ee68d95faf93912293f *VTS_01_0.IFO
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97a0eec21161973a8929239dd80473af *VTS_01_1.VOB
31217562871ec2334c4a34d82159761d *VTS_01_2.VOB
db96beeacb48385620d9d61943d4d356 *VTS_01_3.VOB
c798b84e43fd516ea17b362bbf12d2e9 *VTS_01_4.VOB
f75a6b46b734e725b81f14f20568382d *VTS_01_5.VOB

DISC 1 of 2

ARTIST: QUEEN
TITLE: Earl's Evening Races (A Snivlle Remastered Edition)
VENUE: Earl's Court Arena
LOCATION: London, England
DATE: June 6, 1977
FORMAT: PAL 25 fps

VIDEO QUALITY: (8.75/10) Digitally remastered picture. Clear imagery and greatly improved color, contrast, black levels, and white-balance. Analog VHS video noise has been significantly reduced without losing picture clarity.

AUDIO QUALTIY: (8.65/10) Greatly improved dual MONO soundtrack. Fidelity and dynamics have been increased by no less than 40 percent. Volume is increased and normalised to -1.5 db. Analog VHS hiss & noise have been significantly reduced while leaving the wanted audio signal intact.

VIDEO BITRATE: 8000 KB/s Top Field First (Encoded with CCE SP2)

AUDIO BITRATE: 448 kbps Dolby 2.0 (Encoded with Surcode Pro Encoder)
448 kbps (Pseudo) Dolby 5.1 (Encoded with Surcode Pro Encoder)

MENU: Yes (Pro-style motion menus w/ audio)
CHAPTERS: Yes, by song

LINEAGE: 2st Gen (PAL) VHS -> SA DVDR -> DVD Decrypter -> Elementary Streams -> Professional NLE and Video Editing/Remastering software -> Frame-served to CCE SP2 -> DVD Chaptered/Authored (DVD Lab Pro 2.x)

SNIVLLE'S PRODUCTION NOTES:

I received a copy of this show from a great trading pal from the UK. As he'd told me before we traded, it was indeed one of the best versions of the show to have ever circulated. To find high quality copies of classic 70s QUEEN shows is very, very rare. After carefully watching the disc a few times, I decided that there was enough picture quality remaining, underneath all the video noise, to facilitate a decent remastering attempt. It took close to 3 weeks of processing, remastering, revising, testing, and finally compiling, to come up with the finished product.

Snivlle is proud to take his remastering work from out of the Dino den and share it with the trading community. I hope you enjoy this new version. Included on the discs are 'Before & After' samples of both the audio and video.

It is an unfortunate fact of "video-geek" life that there are only 240 lines of resolution inherent in VHS recordings. This number can obviously not compare to the more the 540 lines of resolution seen in commercial DVDs. The motivation behind all "Snivlle Remastered Edition" DVDs is not to compete with commercial DVD quality; rather, it is to get older VHS footage as close as possible to the quality of SVHS or Laser Disc.

[Video Noise Reduction]
The original VOB files were extracted from the source disc using DVD Decrypter. The VOBs were then frame-served with AVIsynth into Pro-grade NLE (Non Linear Editing) Video/DVD production software. AVIsynth frame-serving was used so that a few very powerful AVIsynth filters could be used on the footage without having to re-encode at this stage, or without having to create 100 GB uncompressed AVI files. In particular, the AVIsynth filters used were UnDot, CNR2, and Guavacomb. In combination, these filters eliminate multi-gen VHS anamolies such as 'dotcrawl', chromiance shifting, and over all chromiance noise. The nasty chroma disturbances are removed WITHOUT affecting the actual picture details. Please note as well, that the aforementioned filters operate as *true* 32 bit floating point software. In other words, no math rounding occurs which would result in less accurate frame-serving.

Various video noise samples were captured and analyzed from the original footage. Careful video temporal de-noising was applied to remove a substantial amount of analog VHS noise and mpeg-2 artifacts. This portion of the video processing was carefully calculated to ensure that maximum results would be achieved WITHOUT disturbing the integrity of the original picture. I use the "NeatVideo" noise reduction plug-in in Highest quality/High resolution mode.

[Video Encoding]
Snivlle Remastered Editions are never mpeg-2 transcoded! All of my DVD projects are frame-served and encoded with Cinema Craft Encoder SP. The Cinema Craft Encoder is recognized within the DVD Production industry as the leader in high quality mpeg encoding. In order to maintai

Thank you very much for this and to all those seeding :-)
Also thank you for the very detailed info.
also thank you to snivlle

People, get this!!!! Picture Quality even reaches the class of the recent Houston Share!!!

Wow! 40 + seeders!?!?!
Many many thanks to all involved in this! Really looking forward to watching it. :-)

It's weird....
All seeders from http://www.jamtothis.com are also seeding the queenzone-torrent now.
The weird thing is the fact that I have made a new torrent for queenzone (because the jamtothis.com one is connected to my upload/download account-info there.

Anyway....have a good download

Thank you very much!

I can't connect :(. Any idea?

Cheers

Thanks a lot to all the people who made this possible! Can't wait to see it! C'mon guys 'n'n girls, seed it!

How is the audio on this copy, compared to the one available at www.queenhouse.de ?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]How is the audio on this copy, compared to the one available at www.queenhouse.de ?
[/QUOTE]

I have checked the most bad part of the concert (procession) between this DVD and the flac file from Queenhouse.de and I can say that the source is from the same tape, but also that the audio on this DVD is better remastered than the file on Queenhouse.de

It's almost unbelievable that the irritating noise in the beginning of procession, on the DVD, completely is removed !!!

Greetings

Bokkepoot

Thanks.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]bokkepoot wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]How is the audio on this copy, compared to the one available at www.queenhouse.de ?
[/QUOTE]

I have checked the most bad part of the concert (procession) between this DVD and the flac file from Queenhouse.de and I can say that the source is from the same tape, but also that the audio on this DVD is better remastered than the file on Queenhouse.de

It's almost unbelievable that the irritating noise in the beginning of procession, on the DVD, completely is removed !!!

Greetings

Bokkepoot[/QUOTE]

Beautiful... thanks!

A la Wayne's World: it shall be mine!

Many, many thanks to Snivlle for all the hard work!

Thank you very much Marco!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]bokkepoot wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]How is the audio on this copy, compared to the one available at www.queenhouse.de ?
[/QUOTE]

I have checked the most bad part of the concert (procession) between this DVD and the flac file from Queenhouse.de and I can say that the source is from the same tape, but also that the audio on this DVD is better remastered than the file on Queenhouse.de

It's almost unbelievable that the irritating noise in the beginning of procession, on the DVD, completely is removed !!!

Greetings

Bokkepoot[/QUOTE]

Yeah Bokki, its infact almost unbelievable, how the disturbing noise at Procession is completely removed.
A lossy version though! HeHe!!!
But what a god loss in this special case...
Audio quality is in fact just like mine.

This is def. the very best Earls Court version, until now, maybe a little bit to dark???
BTW. where´s the long awaited Boxset??
I always hoped, it will contain things like Houston and Earls Court, but I´m afraid it will never be released.