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Re: Dragon’s Lair Update
01/14/20 05:03 PM


> I am no expert here, but this sounds way too much GB, for a a PAL format as maximum
> resolution. Any lossless or uncompressed codec would produce much less than 90GB for
> 30minutes.

LASERDISCS. ARE. NOT. DIGITAL. They encode an analog NTSC or PAL composite signal plus separate audio (which *can* be digital on later discs but likely isn't on any of the arcade games).

The captures are large because they're sampling the analog RF signal that's encoded on the disc, and they want to make sure they're not missing any data. It's like an AppleSauce or Kryoflux capture of a floppy, where a 143K disc generates a multi-megabyte capture.







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* Dragon’s Lair Update anoid 01/06/20 05:06 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Doosh  02/23/20 09:29 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Doosh  03/16/20 01:26 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update MooglyGuy  03/16/20 06:00 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Doosh  05/09/20 01:09 AM
. * Re: Audio cassettes ICEknight  05/09/20 10:52 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Doosh  03/16/20 08:38 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update The Nate  01/18/20 12:18 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update MooglyGuy  01/20/20 07:24 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Master O  01/26/20 06:47 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update gregf  01/30/20 09:33 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Bullishunderdog  08/22/20 07:32 AM
. * Bega's Battle, decoded MooglyGuy  01/13/20 02:31 PM
. * Re: Bega's Battle, decoded casm  01/13/20 05:36 PM
. * Re: Bega's Battle, decoded MooglyGuy  01/13/20 06:03 PM
. * Re: Bega's Battle, decoded DomesdayCollector  01/13/20 10:55 PM
. * Re: Bega's Battle, decoded DomesdayCollector  01/14/20 12:38 AM
. * Re: Bega's Battle, decoded Haze  01/14/20 02:23 PM
. * Re: Bega's Battle, decoded agard  01/14/20 12:46 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update agard  01/06/20 05:18 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update gregf  01/06/20 05:52 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update pablopelos  01/08/20 04:41 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update agard  01/07/20 12:53 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update gregf  01/06/20 05:26 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Antny  01/07/20 06:28 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update WarrenO  01/08/20 01:55 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update uman  01/09/20 05:10 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update R. Belmont  01/14/20 05:03 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update DomesdayCollector  01/15/20 12:25 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update Olivier Galibert  01/15/20 12:04 AM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update ICEknight  01/10/20 09:18 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update VirtuaIceMan  01/11/20 04:27 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update smf  01/10/20 08:47 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update MooglyGuy  01/09/20 07:02 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update jonwil  01/09/20 01:36 PM
. * Re: Dragon’s Lair Update gregf  01/07/20 10:33 AM

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