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<blockquote data-quote="petsa" data-source="post: 343903" data-attributes="member: 29962">Hi zorg,I was pretty disappointed with the quality of TV, read interlaced material, and I have spent quite some time to find the best (for me) combination of codec and deinterlacing. What works best for me is to use ATI MPEG codec (no you don't need a ATI gfx card to use it, I have an Nvidia) together with ffdshow for post-processing. I have disabled deinterlacing in MP and enabled it in ffdshow. I use Kernelbob in ffdshow together with some sharping. This gives me very good quality, especially when watching sports where there is a lot of horizontal panning etc.As far as I can see there is only one disadvantage with this setup and that is I can not use HW acceleration for h264 decoding. Since I have ffdshow in the flow it automatically turns off HW acceleration. I have a C2D E6600 so I can do that in the CPU instead of the gfx card but I'm not sure that would work for 1080p material. It works fine for 720p (Swedish HDTV).So this is my setup but I've understoond that this may not be the optimal combination for everyone depending on personal preference, LCD-panel, etc, etc. Hopefully it can give you a good start to continue to tune.Cheers/Peter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="petsa, post: 343903, member: 29962"] Hi zorg, I was pretty disappointed with the quality of TV, read interlaced material, and I have spent quite some time to find the best (for me) combination of codec and deinterlacing. What works best for me is to use ATI MPEG codec (no you don't need a ATI gfx card to use it, I have an Nvidia) together with ffdshow for post-processing. I have disabled deinterlacing in MP and enabled it in ffdshow. I use Kernelbob in ffdshow together with some sharping. This gives me very good quality, especially when watching sports where there is a lot of horizontal panning etc. As far as I can see there is only one disadvantage with this setup and that is I can not use HW acceleration for h264 decoding. Since I have ffdshow in the flow it automatically turns off HW acceleration. I have a C2D E6600 so I can do that in the CPU instead of the gfx card but I'm not sure that would work for 1080p material. It works fine for 720p (Swedish HDTV). So this is my setup but I've understoond that this may not be the optimal combination for everyone depending on personal preference, LCD-panel, etc, etc. Hopefully it can give you a good start to continue to tune. Cheers /Peter [/QUOTE]

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