Which renderer for Judderfree playback (2 Viewers)

[kenwonders]

Sorry guys, I know this doesn't solve your problems, but I don't replicate them here. Maybe someone else has some specific experience.

blobo: I make PAL mkv's of my recorded TV shows, and they're all playing back fine at 25fps with Reclock always finding a video and correctly finding its fps. The codec I'm using for these files is CoreAVC on XP with ffdshow audio.

Aurora13: I believe I had this when I was experimenting with using different resolutions for different refresh rates. When I stuck with the same resolution but only changing the pixel clock (connected via DVI-HDMI) then it was fine.

 

[putkonen]

Watching movies with reclock works pretty nice, but if I use reclock for live tv the sound is at least half a second delayed from the video. After changing the TV channel for a few times to picture start to judder massively. Is there something I could do to fix this? Changing codecs didn't help.

 

[blobo]

blobo: I make PAL mkv's of my recorded TV shows, and they're all playing back fine at 25fps with Reclock always finding a video and correctly finding its fps. The codec I'm using for these files is CoreAVC on XP with ffdshow audio.

I found one mkv file where the frame rate was found, but i couldn't really figure out how it was different from my other mkvs. For all other mkvs, it doesn't find the frame rate.

I'm also having another issue, reclock won't load with DVDs. I have tried all possible setting in reclock and nothing seems to work. Reclock icon appears for a second when i try to play a DVD and then disappears. DVDs work fine without reclock and DVDs play fine with reclock in MPC. I don't know, maybe an SVN related issue, i'm using 17890 now.

Very frustrating.


E: Doesn't seem to be SVN related.. hmmm...


E2: Got it. it only works with MPV-decoder, not with cyberlink or ffdshow.. i wonder why.

e2: And now it works with cyberlink as well.. seems like cyberlink + ac3filter + reclock don't like each other, cyberlink + ffdshow + reclock works. very interesting.


e3: I think that i nailed the mkv problem as well! It seems that it doesn't detect the frame rate of mkv files if the file name has spaces! Very odd. This problem is only relevant to mkv files. I have now tested with 5 files, none of them get detected when the file name has spaces and after renaming they work fine.

Still one problem..

I use MP both for videos and TV, but i don't use reclock with TV as it causes sync problems. Now the problem is that the script can change the refresh rate automatically when a file is played, but if the last file i've watched is 24Hz and i go to watch TV after that, the refresh rate is not correct.

The script has events "STOP" and "QUIT", but neither seem to be working in MP, or i don't know how to edit the script correctly.. Does anyone have any experiences about this? Optimally the resfresh rate would always return to 50Hz when playback ends.

 

[gibman]

Look at the script;

If eventName = "QUIT" Then

Select Case currentResolution
Case "1280x720"
'If currentRefreshRate <> "50" Then newTimings = "1280,448,40,208,720,5,5,20,74100,2304" ' 50 hz
End Select

as u can tell this line is commented out "'If currentRefreshRate <> "50" Then newTimings = "1280,448,40,208,720,5,5,20,74100,2304" ' 50 hz"

remove the single quote and it will reset refresh rate back to defaults when playback is stopped.
So insert ur own refresh/resolution combo here instead of "1280,448,40,208,720,5,5,20,74100,2304"

I'm also having audio synch issues on live TV.
U could try and lower the "sound pre buffer size" in reclock.

/gibman

 

[peely]

I had this issue with Reclock not guessing the correct framerate of my card (Intel G33), I was requesting a framerate of 60hz in Powerstrip successfully, but Reclock somehow keeps thinking it's 30FPS! So I changed the If currentRefreshRate <> "60" to If currentRefreshRate <> "60" and currentRefrechRate <> "30" then...

This solved the issue, it stopped reclock constantly calling the VBS when I played NTSC content.


Neil.

Watching movies with reclock works pretty nice, but if I use reclock for live tv the sound is at least half a second delayed from the video. After changing the TV channel for a few times to picture start to judder massively. Is there something I could do to fix this? Changing codecs didn't help.

I had this too, I found that my actual refresh rate after changing the pixel clock was just slightly over 25FPS, if reclock speeded the video up to just over 25FPS then given the fact that the broadcast is live, it would eventually run out of frames! I changed my pixel clock to be just less than 25FPS instead, which seems to work fine for me.

Not sure if this helps for you, too.

 

[damaster]

I'm using Vista with EVR and my TV is a rear projection CRT running at 1920x1080 @ 30Hz (1080i). My video card is an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, with Catalyst 8.3 drivers (latest).

For 720p/1080p MKVs, I'm using CoreAVC with ffdshow post-processing to re-scale to 1920x1080 (when applicable).

For live TV, I'm using Cyberlink MPEG2 decoder with hardware acceleration enabled.

I'm not really seeing any judder with the MKVs, but I sometimes see it with live TV. Using Reclock to change refresh rates is not really an option for me since I'm sending 1080i to my TV. Is there any other solution for my particular case?

Thanks

 

[gibman]

maybe this link is interesting
Frame Rate Test Videos

/gibman

 

[peely]

maybe this link is interesting
Frame Rate Test Videos

/gibman

Very useful for testing, however they do not contain audio and therefore I do not think Reclock can do its magic.


Neil.

 

[putkonen]

I have ATI HD 2400 with two displays. There is always tearing on the second display. I've tried VMR9, EVR, different MPEG decoders, setting the second display primary etc. but nothing has helped. Today I installZoomplayer and it was capable of playing video on the second display without any tearing whatsoever - I just installed the player and didn't do any configuring at all. Is there something I could do in MediaPortal to fix the issue, at it doesn't seem to depend on the graphics card?

 

[tourettes]

ZoomPlayer is most likely using the overlay renderer by default.