Babylon 5 1080p 10bit H444 60fps 5.1 DTS
Season 5: The Wheel of Fire (1998)

Season 5 processing is now completly done in 32bit and a 16bit pipeline, then downscaled to 10bit by the x264 encoder to what you see now. The visual quality is outstanding when compared to the DVD, if I do say so myself. Yes, I even considered going back to redo the others, but I won't. Maybe in a few years. This new method gets rid of several things that have been bugging me about the older way. You should notice a large improvement within the first few minutes.

Remember these will need a good CPU and graphics card to play properly!! If they are skipping/freeze framing and audio is out of sync, you need a better CPU and/or graphics card.

Another personal project I have been working on. Since we may never see a studio remaster of this great old series, I thought I would try to improve it slightly. Have you tried watching the DVD's on a highend TV? I have upscaled and brought out the colours to be watched on UHDTV's or similar; converted the audio to DTS and also took the 5.1 track and downmixed it to 2.0 (2.1) stereo for those that want it. With a possible new movie - a reboot - coming out in a few years (announced at one of the comic-cons), there is a slight chance we will see proper remasters based off of the original sources with, hopefully, new CG added. Someone suggested I call these "Enhanced" versions, which is true I suppose, but I will just keep posting as I have been doing. Best viewed with Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) with the EVR renderer enabled. Use MadVR renderer if you have a graphics card and TV/Monitor that it will allow you to view these on. New** MediaPlayerDOTNet (MPDN). Very nice up and coming (10/16bit supported) GPU-based player. 

VLC 3.0 beta does a decent job of rendering, but it's still not perfect. VLC 2.x should be deleted from your system. ;) Of course, what ever you watch them on, the episodes will look better than they do now. You just may not be able to see the beautiful deep blacks of space as they should be seen, if you view on standard monitors and TV's.

Hope some of you enjoy these.

Dead^Man NWA
Feb, 2015