ChuckDV wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:12 pmHello,
I've just ripped Westworld S01 UHDs and have several questions about it.
Judging by DV EL bitrate (120 kb/s) it looks like a P7 MEL release, but seems to be encoded as a P7 FEL (reported by MakeMKV and DoVi Scripts_1.4.7/dovitool). I'm not an expert in the DV metadata info and just demuxed the S01E01 track into BL+RPU+EL. RPU is 18mb and EL is 58mb. When converted to MKV and played back, the EL-only track seems to look like a standard MEL - just plain grey image for the whole duration of the file. I've uploaded EL and RPU https://www.dropbox.com/sh/154396onvqld ... mG1Ja?dl=0. Would appreciate it very much, if somebody more knowledgeable could take a look what's really going on in these DV layers and if it's safe to just convert it to P8 without loosing anything (for archival purposes). Thanks a lot!
Westworld is MEL
Extract only the EL HEVC stream off any p7 UHD and put it into an mkv container and play it, if it's all green on playback it's MEL, if it's grey/white and you see motion artifacts (usually reddish and greenish squares here and there) it's FEL, as you did.
All p7 is FEL technically IIRC, it's the UHD DV delivery profile/package, MEL is a sub type of FEL between 'real' FEL and MEL, so to speak