Originally Posted by troski

I am trying to find the UK / R2 DVD collection of Stargate SG-1, it consists of about 70 DVDs, the first nine seasons are 63 DVDs.

In the R2 collection each disc holds 2-3 episodes, I own the physical discs R1 collection, but it is only 50 DVDs, and they cram 4-5 episodes per disk.

I am hoping to find the UK / R2 collection because it is less compressed, I think it may even be a little higher resolution.

It is unlikely Stargate SG1 will ever make its way to bluray from what I have read. (millions $$ per episode!)

I am trying to find the DVD image/isos so that I can use Vapoursynth+Filters to encode it myself (so that I can get it looking a little bit better on my HD tv)

I really appreciate any help I can get finding these.

Stargate SG1 S01-S10 and Movies H265-d3g

Source: DVDRip, WEB-DL, BR REMUX

Format : Matroska at 734 kb/s
Length : 232 MiB for 44 min 12 s 928 ms

Video #0 : HEVC at 540 kb/s
Aspect : 828 x 468 (1.769) at 23.976 fps

Audio #0 : AC-3 at 192 kb/s
Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 kHz

Converting DVDRips to HEVC doesn't do anything but reduce the file size. After placing this rip on my PLEX server, "fate385" and I agreed the quality had only marginal, if any, difference.

Seasons 8,9, and 10 were converted from 1080p WEB-DL's.

Source: IPT

Originally Posted by SpiderCrawler

Converting DVDRips to HEVC doesn't do anything but reduce the file size. After placing this rip on my PLEX server, "fate385" and I agreed the quality had only marginal, if any, difference.

I appreciate the reply SpiderCrawler, I am actually planning on doing quite a bit more than just converting the source material to h264/h265. I plan to use Vapoursynth (Similar to Avisynth) to filter the content PRIOR to encoding it. One such Filter is MDegrain, which is used to remove excessive grain, but there are MANY more filters that can be used to clean up and remaster the material as well (such as or V-BM3D, Avisynth has 100's of filters.). The more filters you use the longer the encoding takes, but it can often make a significant difference in quality for SD material that is likely never to be brought to HD by an actual studio.

Ideally you would use the raw film when doing a remaster, but since that is not available the next best thing I can get my hands on is the R2 DVD images.

I would not want to use already encoded material with vaporsynth, technically you could but too much of the information would have already been discarded by the h264/h265 encoder, information that is needed to let the filters do the best job that they can.