Stuttering During Fast Motion (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

uninstall SAF4 then install SAF 5.X unlocked version instead.

 

[hoborg]

gperkinson:

Your SAF needs to be *unlocked*
Check PM.

 

[kiwijunglist]

also you mentioned you have ffdshow set for h264 tv, hoborg can answer here, but last time i remember ffdshow will not connect to HDTV, so you will be infact using a different codec here, even though you selected ffdshow. The built in microsoft h264 codec in win7 does a good job here, however PDVD8/9/10 is also good.

 

[gperkinson]

Thanks Kiwijunglist and Hoburg for all your help so far.

So far all the HD 1080 content is looking good!! Did Shift ! and frames dropped have dropping right down to around 4 straight away and never seem to increase much - perhaps the intial ones are just the startup. I'm using PDVD9 for TV.

Also managed to get Graphstudio working if I select Run As Administrator and Codecs all as per SAF and MP.

My only blurring now seems to be 720 size picture, especially if in an avi file which is how all my music videos are coverted via Handbrake - any pointers there? Hoburg, you mention coverting avi to mkv - would this help with the blurring issue?

Again guys, thanks for your help.

Regards

Graham

 

[hoborg]

Thanks Kiwijunglist and Hoburg for all your help so far.

So far all the HD 1080 content is looking good!! Did Shift ! and frames dropped have dropping right down to around 4 straight away and never seem to increase much - perhaps the intial ones are just the startup. I'm using PDVD9 for TV.

Also managed to get Graphstudio working if I select Run As Administrator and Codecs all as per SAF and MP.

My only blurring now seems to be 720 size picture, especially if in an avi file which is how all my music videos are coverted via Handbrake - any pointers there? Hoburg, you mention coverting avi to mkv - would this help with the blurring issue?

Again guys, thanks for your help.

Regards

Graham

No, AVI->MKV wont fix any blurring. Are you sure you dont have already blured picture inside video? Can you post small sample to reproduce?

 

[gperkinson]

Yeah, I might do - will convert another file that definately doesn't have blurr to start with and test first.

 

[kiwijunglist]

don't bother converting it wont help, mkv is just a "container", when you convert from mkv -> avi you don't actually convert the video it just sits inside a different container using the same video compression profile as previously.

I assume you are using a 1920x1080 TV. Play the 720 file with bluring in mediaportal. Press F9 choose zoom = 'original'. Does it still look blurred? This test will eliminiate a scaling problem. It might just be a bad encoder.

Also you havn't commented if you are using the dynamic refresh rate changer.

 

[gperkinson]

don't bother converting it wont help, mkv is just a "container", when you convert from mkv -> avi you don't actually convert the video it just sits inside a different container using the same video compression profile as previously.

I assume you are using a 1920x1080 TV. Play the 720 file with bluring in mediaportal. Press F9 choose zoom = 'original'. Does it still look blurred? This test will eliminiate a scaling problem. It might just be a bad encoder.

Also you havn't commented if you are using the dynamic refresh rate changer.

Hi,

Yep, 1920 x 1080 TV - 52 inch Samsung. Yes, still blurry on "original". Yep, got DRRC enabled.

Sample avi file attached - this snippet is from a C4 recording that I converted from ts to avi - the full music video is 100MB, so original quality.

Full HD is now looking great since installing SAF4 unlocked with PDVD9 and removing all other codecs and codec packs. A bit of blurr, but nothing to worry about ... keeping my fingers crossed and hoping I did not speak too soon!!

Graham

 

[kiwijunglist]

Did you change the overscan scaling settings for each refresh rate in the CCC, because you may find that when it changes to a certain hz to match the fps then you are using overscan, because you need to set it for each refresh rate individually. eg. you may have 50hz = 0% overscan , 60hz = 0% overscan , 24hz = 15% overscan. This would cause you to loose 1:1 mapping.

 

[gperkinson]

Did you change the overscan scaling settings for each refresh rate in the CCC, because you may find that when it changes to a certain hz to match the fps then you are using overscan, because you need to set it for each refresh rate individually. eg. you may have 50hz = 0% overscan , 60hz = 0% overscan , 24hz = 15% overscan. This would cause you to loose 1:1 mapping.

I wasn't aware that you can do that i.e. for each individual refresh rate. I'm still a little confused on actually how you do this? When I try and make the changes, my impression is that this then becomes the CCC setting i.e. it is set to the HZ setting once you hit "apply". Do I have that right?

Also, by activating the Dynamic Refresh Rate in MP Configuration, does this not convert the refresh rate to the 50HZ?

Also just wondering if you managed to view the file I attached?

Regards

Graham