Post Description

Drunken Master 1978 720p HDTV DD5.1 x264-PerfectionHD

Technical Specs:
RUNTIME...........: 1h:51m:12s
RELEASE SIZE......: 5.8 GB
VIDEO CODEC.......: x264, L4.1
VIDEO BITRATE.....: 6800 Kbps
RESOLUTION........: 1280x546
FRAMERATE.........: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1............: Cantonese AC3 5.1 @ 384kbps (from remastered DVD, see notes)
AUDIO2............: Cantonese AC3 2.0 @ 192kbps (from DVD)
AUDIO3............: English Commentary AC3 2.0 @ 192kbps with martial arts columnist Ric Meyers and Jackie Chan biographer Jeff Yang
SUBTITLES.........: English (subtitles+dubtitles) srt
SOURCE............: HDTV H264 720p50 DD2.0 (thx sammie95OO)
ENCODER...........: oh01 @ 30/09/2011

Notes:
There are mainly 2 versions of the movie, one with dual mono Cantonese audio with several English dubbed lines and the other with 5.1 Cantonese audio with trimed scenes, where there was only English dubbing.
Since the HDTV is the first version (you can say uncut), I went through all the trouble of syncing the 5.1 audio. It needed about 30 cuts where I had to add parts from 2.0 audio and you will recognize these places by hearing English and not Cantonese. The whole process was done lossless, apart from inserted English parts, where there was no way, but to re-encode them. But the rest was done in mkvmerge (cutting and merging via timecodes which I found out in Audacity), so no unnecessary encoding was done. The result is not perfect (especially the first fight with Chan, that was a bitch), but I am pretty sure that better audio won't turn up, because the original soundtrack in these parts has been lost or destroyed.
The whole process with the audio took about 20 hours to complete (5 minutes missing in total), so I don't want to hear any bitching about it being useless and not genuine :P

Anyway I still also included the original 2.0 track with no alterations from my side. I also compared the audio from DVD and HDTV and DVD sounded better at less bitrate (I guess HDTV didn't have any remastered audio)
Regarding the video, I fixed 1 dirty pixel on each side with Fillmargins()

included..
Drunken Master 1978 English 2.0 - 192kbps.ac3
Drunken Master 1978 English Commentary 2.0 - 192kbps.ac3