"The Amazing Mantis Tiller" (Mantis, 1997)

A 16-minute long cassette tape containing an informational video on the Mantis Tiller.
Full label on the VHS tape reads the following:
"Mantis®
THE AMAZING MANTIS TILLER
1028 Street Road • Southampton, PA 18966
(215) 355-9700 • FAX (215) 364-1409
P/N 8050HFV-T"

Upscaled to 4K for YouTube using Lanczos4Resize, deinterlaced with QTGMC, and denoised using MCTemporalDenoise, all within StaxRip. I do not claim to be well versed in the artform of analog media encoding, so I encourage anyone who knows better to give it a try themselves using the RF samples on the archive.org page: https://archive.org/details/theamazin... (not yet available)

Rest of description is a direct paste from archive.org page:

The MKV included is an FFV1 interlaced copy with one audio track:
1. VHS Hi-Fi demodulated from VCR
(hifi-decode demodulation not included as it did not play nice with this tape at all)

This archive includes the FM RF copies of the analogue format (VHS). The media was captured with two modified VTImage capture cards (CXADC) at 40MSPS for the video signal, and 10MSPS for the VHS Hi-Fi audio.
This is the original signal off of the medium before processing past initial signal tracking and pre-amplification - a raw master digital copy or medium transfer.

Capture hardware used: 2x VTImage capture cards (CXADC) sampling at 40MSPS, overclocked via https://github.com/namazso/cxadc-cloc...
VCR & Tap setup used: Sony SLV-677HF, PB RF pin 2 on CN261 for video FM RF, CN341 pin 3 for VHS Hi-Fi FM RF
TV System & Tape Format: NTSC, VHS SP
Commands used to decode the FFV1 archive provided:
vhs-decode --debug --ntsc --threads 8 --tape_format VHS --recheck_phase

Version of decode used at the time: 8b9a53b

Runtime: 00:16:00:000

Audio: Yes

Included in this archive is the RF information, exported FFV1 video file, and commands used with vhs-decode as well as hifi-decode.

A de-interlaced 59.94p x264 MKV is included for streaming purposes, and was done so using QTGMC via StaxRip.

Please visit the vhs-decode GitHub page if you wish to obtain newer versions of the decoders, other tools and more information past what is presented here.

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decod...