Guide: Perfect playback & Display calibration (1 Viewer)

[red5goahead]

Thank for the guide.

Let me show my configuration after basic calibration (Black Clipping, APL Clipping, White Clipping)

TV: Plasma Panasonic 42ST60
Video Card: Asus Amd Radeon R7 260x
Sound Card: Asus Xonar DX (Dolby digital live encoding + SPD/IF)

Dynamic refresh rate section:

CINEMA --> 23.976 --> 23
CINEMA24 -->24 -> 24
PAL --> 25 --> 50
PALHD --> 50 --> 50
NTSC --> 29.97 --> 59 (or 23 if you have interlaced content and check the pulldown detection in the Catalyst)
NTSCHD --> 59.94 --> 59
ATSC --> 30 --> 60
ATSCHD --> 60 --> 60
TV --> 25 --> 50

Panasonic 60 series support refresh rate:

23 (23.976), 24, 25, 59 (59.94), 60 for 1080p
also 25, 29 (29.97) and 30 for 1080p but without no IFC avaiable
25,29 (29.97) and 30 for 1080i
25,29 (29.97) and 30 for 720p

Catalyst : 1^ Profile (RGB 4:4:4 Full) calibrated to 16-235 daily used

Lav codec video: thread default

Lav video audio: thread default, +130/140 ms audio delay to compensate tv lag (with IFC set to 'MIN')

Panasonic 42ST60:

Viewing mode: True Cinema (default)

Contrast --> 70
Brightness-->0
Colour-->0
Tint-->0
Sharpness-->40
Colour temperature-->Warm
Vivid color->off
Ambient sensor-->off
Noise reduction-->off
MPEG Noise reduction-->off
Intelligent frame creation-->Min (also min for 24 smooth play)
Advanced setting-->Panel luminance Setting-->med
Advanced setting-->White balance-->default
option settings-->game mode-->off
option settings-->1080p pixel direct -->on
Hdmi RGB Range-->Auto, or ´Full´ for the 1^ profile
screen settings-->16:9 overscan --> Off
screen settings-->Hsize --> Hsize-1
screen settings-->Pixel orbiter --> On

 

[Syrel]

Thanks for the guide, I really love how detailed it is, and 99% of the things work perfectly as they should.

However, I'm struggling with playing videos containing DTS audio track.
These files simply don't play (upon playing, MP screen goes black for a sec, than returns as if the movie ended).
I'm on a new install of Win7 x64, with no additional codec packs, except a manual install of ffdshow. I'm using the exact setup as outlined in the thread, LAV decoder for audio, no pass through enabled, and MPAR for renderer. I'm using SPDIF optical connection to my Onkyo receiver (not HDMI as my receiver is rather old and doesn't have HDMI support...), but this never caused any issue so far.
I tried to debug as much as I could, and did the below steps:

• Reinstalled LAV, also upgrading to a newer version (59.1)
• If I change back to standard DirectSound renderer and leave LAV settings the same (no passthrough), videos play correctly with audio recognized as Dolby ProLogic II (not DTS, as I believe DTS is being decoded by LAV into standard 6 channel PCM stream).
• If, in next step, I enable pass-through of DTS in LAV, both video and DTS audio plays correctly.
• I also checked in GraphStudio, manually building a graph with LAV audio decoder and MPAR, the connection seems to be OK, with 6ch 32bit PCM data coming out of LAV and recognized correctly as input of MPAR. However, the video does not play also in graphstudio, or if it starts, there is no sound at all.

I also attach a debug log from MP. I tried to dig some of the files myself, but I'm afraid my knowledge of MP internals does not allow me to come to any conclusions...
I'd be extremely grateful if some of you might try to help me fixing this.

 

[corcy]

It's a limitation of your optical connection. If your AV-Receiver can decode DTS I would just use DirectSound and activate DTS passthrough. If you really need to use MPAR then you either downmix you decoded DTS sound to Dolby Prologic in LAV audio or re-encode your 6 channel PCM to DolbyDigital in MPAR.

 

[Syrel]

It's a limitation of your optical connection. If your AV-Receiver can decode DTS I would just use DirectSound and activate DTS passthrough. If you really need to use MPAR then you either downmix you decoded DTS sound to Dolby Prologic in LAV audio or re-encode your 6 channel PCM to DolbyDigital in MPAR.

Ok, thanks, makes sense. However, I'm not sure I fully understand the second part about MPAR re-encoding to 6 channel DD. This is what I'm trying to do, but it seems that MPAR practically refuses to do anything with the decoded stream coming from LAV decoder. (If we assume the problem lies somewhere in audio decoding/rendering.)

I also made some progress myself, by installing the dtsdecoder.dll from Arcsoft TMT into LAV x86 folder. Now in GraphStudio I get correct DD sound, as I should. The only difference I noted was that now LAV sends 16bit PCM data to MPAR, whereas without the TMT decoder it sent 32bit. However, video still doesn't play at all from MP.

 

[corcy]

You need to set AC3 Encoding Mode to forced in MPAR properties and of course to disable mixing in LAV Audio. Dtsdecoder.dll is only needed if you plan to decode dts-hd streams.

 

[Syrel]

Ok, after much testing, it seems the only way I can use this is to forget MPAR and use DirectSound renderer. I'm not sure how this will affect my drift / dropped frames in other movies, but for DTS material this is the only way to play correctly.

 

[red5goahead]

Ok, after much testing, it seems the only way I can use this is to forget MPAR and use DirectSound renderer. I'm not sure how this will affect my drift / dropped frames in other movies, but for DTS material this is the only way to play correctly.

Actually , I tried to use default directsound renderer instead MPAR with a proper new TV (Panasonic ST60) that support all refresh rates we need and, imho, MPAR is not necessary anymore, the excellent evr video renderer is enough

 

[evilgroby]

Hey, i would like to set up my LAV-settings with my internal HD2000 gpu from Intel i3.
In your guide is said: Intel - Choose Intel QuickSync + adaptive HW deinterlacing, output: 50p/60p

But it is not possible to select adaptive HW deinterlacing !
As your screen shows, it seems only available for Nvidia cards (CUVID).

Which settings i have to make for a better picture with my Intel HD2000?

 

[yoavain]

Hi,

I have a question about DRR. Is it possible to configure MP to switch back to the original refresh rate when playback stops?
When I play a movie at 24 fps and then stop it, display stays at 24, and not returning to 60fps.

Thanks,
Yoav

 

[legnod]

@yoavain you just need to set a "default refreshrate" inside the MP config...