Led Zeppelin: Earl's Court Arena (5/24/1975) BIV Edition, v2
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Description: British rock titans Led Zeppelin served a residency at Earl's Court in London, England in May of 1975, performing on the 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th and 25th of that month. This presentation offers a front row seat to the 3 and a half-hour performance given on May 24th, 1975. The BIV Edition, v2 is superior to and replaces the "In the Court Of King James" BIV Edition, my previous upscale of this show.
Led Zeppelin
May 24, 1975
Earl's Court Arena
London, England
Source
=======
LedZepFilm's 4-source merge referred to as
"EARLS COURT 40th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE EDITION"
Supplied on 2 DVD-9 Discs.
Source Audio: PCM 2.0
Set List
========
01.Introduction By Nicky Horne
02.Rock And Roll
03.Sick Again
04.Over The Hills And Far Away
05.In My Time Of Dying
06.The Song Remains The Same
07.The Rain Song
08.Kashmir
09.No Quarter
10.Tangerine
11.Going To California
12.That's The Way
13.Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
14.Trampled Underfoot
15.Moby Dick
16.Dazed And Confused (inc. Woodstock)
17.Stairway To Heaven
18.encore break
19.Whole Lotta Love (inc. The Crunge)
20.Black Dog
Processing: Vapoursynth QTGMC de-interlace and PAR conversion to 1:1. Proper upscale to 1080p, with noise and compression artifact removal. All intermediate video processing was carried out in lossless (FFV1, 10-bit) processing. After upscaling, a final compression using H.265 10-bit was done, with appropriate cropping. No audio processing done. The source PCM 2.0 was converted to a FLAC 2.0 track, an Opus 192kbps 2.0 track and an EAC3 640kbps 2.0 track. These 3 conversion tracks were re-muxed with the final, compressed file, and the FLAC 2.0 track was set as default. Chapter points were manually entered and named for song selection. Cover art was designed and added. This consisted of a reworking of the artwork from the 1975 Earl's Court Arena concert program.
Notes: I previously released a proper upscale of the 5/24/1975 Earl's Court performance using an EVSD source. This was plagued by a problem common to all of the EVSD sources: audio dropouts following Stairway To Heaven. This released, based on LedZepFilm's 4-source merge, in my opinion, is visually and sonically superior to my previous upscale. There are no audio dropouts in this version, and the lossy audio track provided by EVSD on their releases is now replaced with lossless audio. I would like to give thanks and acknowledgement to LedZepFilm, for providing his 4-source merge; to zoso_ledzep4_yy, for alerting me to the existence of LedZepFilm's merge and for providing me with various sources to compare; and to dragon155, for providing me with LedZepFilm's merge on 2 DVD-9 discs.
What is a BIV Edition?
======================
This isn't tooting my own horn. This refers to the process that I use to upscale video. As the PROCESSING section above indicates, there are a sequence of tasks that I undertake to complete a "proper" upscale.
Why FLAC?
=========
It's a free, open format, lossless compression codec with wide software and device support. Question is, why wouldn't you use it?
Why Opus?
=========
I almost never use lossy audio compression. Opus is the exception. It's a royalty-free, open-format lossy compression codec that generally achieves transparency at 128kbps. I encode to 192kbps for stereo tracks, just because I can.
Why PAR files?
==============
I don't know why PAR files never caught on with the boot community. PAR archives have the ability to compare checksums and to repair files when those checksums don't match. I pair PAR files with anything of importance. You never know when bit rot will strike, and setting a redundancy of 5% sound like cheap insurance. Depending on how high you set the redundancy, you can even re-create missing files.
Not to be purchased or sold!
Enjoy!
-BiginV3gas
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
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Description: British rock titans Led Zeppelin served a residency at Earl's Court in London, England in May of 1975, performing on the 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th and 25th of that month. This presentation offers a front row seat to the 3 and a half-hour performance given on May 24th, 1975. The BIV Edition, v2 is superior to and replaces the "In the Court Of King James" BIV Edition, my previous upscale of this show.
Led Zeppelin
May 24, 1975
Earl's Court Arena
London, England
Source
=======
LedZepFilm's 4-source merge referred to as
"EARLS COURT 40th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE EDITION"
Supplied on 2 DVD-9 Discs.
Source Audio: PCM 2.0
Set List
========
01.Introduction By Nicky Horne
02.Rock And Roll
03.Sick Again
04.Over The Hills And Far Away
05.In My Time Of Dying
06.The Song Remains The Same
07.The Rain Song
08.Kashmir
09.No Quarter
10.Tangerine
11.Going To California
12.That's The Way
13.Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
14.Trampled Underfoot
15.Moby Dick
16.Dazed And Confused (inc. Woodstock)
17.Stairway To Heaven
18.encore break
19.Whole Lotta Love (inc. The Crunge)
20.Black Dog
Processing: Vapoursynth QTGMC de-interlace and PAR conversion to 1:1. Proper upscale to 1080p, with noise and compression artifact removal. All intermediate video processing was carried out in lossless (FFV1, 10-bit) processing. After upscaling, a final compression using H.265 10-bit was done, with appropriate cropping. No audio processing done. The source PCM 2.0 was converted to a FLAC 2.0 track, an Opus 192kbps 2.0 track and an EAC3 640kbps 2.0 track. These 3 conversion tracks were re-muxed with the final, compressed file, and the FLAC 2.0 track was set as default. Chapter points were manually entered and named for song selection. Cover art was designed and added. This consisted of a reworking of the artwork from the 1975 Earl's Court Arena concert program.
Notes: I previously released a proper upscale of the 5/24/1975 Earl's Court performance using an EVSD source. This was plagued by a problem common to all of the EVSD sources: audio dropouts following Stairway To Heaven. This released, based on LedZepFilm's 4-source merge, in my opinion, is visually and sonically superior to my previous upscale. There are no audio dropouts in this version, and the lossy audio track provided by EVSD on their releases is now replaced with lossless audio. I would like to give thanks and acknowledgement to LedZepFilm, for providing his 4-source merge; to zoso_ledzep4_yy, for alerting me to the existence of LedZepFilm's merge and for providing me with various sources to compare; and to dragon155, for providing me with LedZepFilm's merge on 2 DVD-9 discs.
What is a BIV Edition?
======================
This isn't tooting my own horn. This refers to the process that I use to upscale video. As the PROCESSING section above indicates, there are a sequence of tasks that I undertake to complete a "proper" upscale.
Why FLAC?
=========
It's a free, open format, lossless compression codec with wide software and device support. Question is, why wouldn't you use it?
Why Opus?
=========
I almost never use lossy audio compression. Opus is the exception. It's a royalty-free, open-format lossy compression codec that generally achieves transparency at 128kbps. I encode to 192kbps for stereo tracks, just because I can.
Why PAR files?
==============
I don't know why PAR files never caught on with the boot community. PAR archives have the ability to compare checksums and to repair files when those checksums don't match. I pair PAR files with anything of importance. You never know when bit rot will strike, and setting a redundancy of 5% sound like cheap insurance. Depending on how high you set the redundancy, you can even re-create missing files.
Not to be purchased or sold!
Enjoy!
-BiginV3gas
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
