AP Starz Watermark

[sycor]

The dropped Starz because of the watermark. Most times I don't notice it... but when I do, it completely ruins the experience and I'm distracted looking for it for the rest of the movie. Plus Starz quality is not that great either. I'd rather wait for the movie to rotate to another service.

 

[RedFox 1]

The dropped Starz because of the watermark. Most times I don't notice it... but when I do, it completely ruins the experience and I'm distracted looking for it for the rest of the movie. Plus Starz quality is not that great either. I'd rather wait for the movie to rotate to another service.

To be honest I didn't notice it until someone brought it up in this forum, now if I really try to see it , I can but I can hardly see the darn movie, my eyes are so bad, and the watermark means nothing to me. But to each his own, I can absolutely see it as being a distraction to some.

 

[whatever_gong82]

To be honest I didn't notice it until someone brought it up in this forum, now if I really try to see it , I can but I can hardly see the darn movie, my eyes are so bad, and the watermark means nothing to me. But to each his own, I can absolutely see it as being a distraction to some.

That's why I still rip movies and TV shows with AnyDVD if they're available on either 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD @RedFox 1.

 

[Shadeau]

In case anyone is still interested in this: I was also annoyed by the logo so I found that ffmpeg has a "delogo" function that will take surrounding pixels and attempt to patch the watermark. This can look perfectly normal or absolutely terrible. The steps I used are:

1. I removed the first 13 seconds of each movie (MKVMerge/MKVToolNix)
   
2. placed all of the ones I wanted to "fix" in a directory
3. held shift and right clicked in the directory
4. selected "open powershell window here"
5. ran the following in the powershell window:

$items=Get-ChildItem | ForEach-Object -Process {[System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_)}; $items | ForEach-Object {ffmpeg -i ('.\' + $_ + '.mp4') -vf "delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,2*60+30,4*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,12*60+30,14*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,22*60+30,24*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,32*60+30,34*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,42*60+30,44*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,52*60+30,54*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,62*60+30,64*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,72*60+30,74*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,82*60+30,84*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,92*60+30,94*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,102*60+30,104*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,112*60+30,114*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,122*60+30,124*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,132*60+30,134*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,142*60+30,144*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,152*60+30,154*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,162*60+30,164*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,172*60+30,174*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,182*60+30,184*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,192*60+30,194*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,202*60+30,204*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,212*60+30,214*60+30)'" -c:a copy ('OutputDirectory\' + $_ + ' [noWM].mp4')}

You'll need to replace OutputDirectory with the desired directory. This will process the entire file so the quality may be reduced. I hardly noticed, but your mileage may vary. It seems to affect darker scenes the most. This script should work on anything less than 3 hours long and assumes the watermark appears every 10 minutes. It starts processing at the 2.5 minute mark and ends at the 4.5 minute mark. Hopefully someone finds this useful.

 

[cartman0208]

In case anyone is still interested in this: I was also annoyed by the logo so I found that ffmpeg has a "delogo" function that will take surrounding pixels and attempt to patch the watermark. This can look perfectly normal or absolutely terrible. The steps I used are:

1. I removed the first 13 seconds of each movie (MKVMerge/MKVToolNix)
   
2. placed all of the ones I wanted to "fix" in a directory
3. held shift and right clicked in the directory
4. selected "open powershell window here"
5. ran the following in the powershell window:

$items=Get-ChildItem | ForEach-Object -Process {[System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_)}; $items | ForEach-Object {ffmpeg -i ('.\' + $_ + '.mp4') -vf "delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,2*60+30,4*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,12*60+30,14*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,22*60+30,24*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,32*60+30,34*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,42*60+30,44*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,52*60+30,54*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,62*60+30,64*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,72*60+30,74*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,82*60+30,84*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,92*60+30,94*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,102*60+30,104*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,112*60+30,114*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,122*60+30,124*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,132*60+30,134*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,142*60+30,144*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,152*60+30,154*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,162*60+30,164*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,172*60+30,174*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,182*60+30,184*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,192*60+30,194*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,202*60+30,204*60+30)',delogo=x=1629:y=960:w=142:h=37:enable='between(t,212*60+30,214*60+30)'" -c:a copy ('OutputDirectory\' + $_ + ' [noWM].mp4')}

You'll need to replace OutputDirectory with the desired directory. This will process the entire file so the quality may be reduced. I hardly noticed, but your mileage may vary. It seems to affect darker scenes the most. This script should work on anything less than 3 hours long and assumes the watermark appears every 10 minutes. It starts processing at the 2.5 minute mark and ends at the 4.5 minute mark. Hopefully someone finds this useful.

Plus: you need ffmpeg installed and the path set correctly
And you might want to set the output directory variable at the start, so it's easier to find

$output="Enter Output directory here";$items=Get-Childitem....

 

[NacreousPuma855]

I noticed that they changed how long and how often they show the watermark. It used to be 30 seconds every 15 minutes, but last month, they changed it to 5 seconds every half hour. Might be good for some of you because fewer distractions.