On Jan 14, 2008 7:40 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics <<a href="mailto:steve@priorityelectronics.com">steve@priorityelectronics.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of Brian Wood<br>Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 5:15 PM<br>To: Discussion about mythtv<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] am i dropping frames?<br><br><br>Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> When i watch sports, i notice that the video is not very smooth. It's<br>> pretty smooth, but noticabally not smooth when compared to watching<br>> standard tv (non mythtv). During most other shows it's not noticable,
<br>> but since sports are fast action the entire time, it's noticable,<br>> especially during basketball.<br>><br>> Watching downloaded divx videos from the stage6 divx site shows me<br>> that it's not the system, cause those hd videos play so smoothly.
<br>><br>> Anyone have any ideas for me? Am i dropping frames in my recordings,<br>> and is that why it seems this way? How do i tell?<br><br>What do you mean by "not very smooth"? Can you post a short clip somewhere?
<br><br>I often see a lot of macro-blocking on sports events, especially during<br>fancy wipes and fast action. I know this is not my Myth system as I have<br>seen the same artifacts at the local TV station.<br><br>Lots of ways to screw up digital video that do not involve dropping frames.
<br><br>beww<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br><br><br></div></div>I'm using a pvr-500, so analog to digital converting there. As far as the<br>clip, I have a 1 minute, 50mb clip that I have posted at
<br><a href="http://www.penguinframe.com/1034_20080114164028.mpg" target="_blank">http://www.penguinframe.com/1034_20080114164028.mpg</a><br><br>Hopefully you'll see what I mean. It's most noticable when the basketball is
<br>being passed through the air, or when the camera is panning from left to<br>right or right to left, also, the scrolling ticker at the bottom of the<br>screen is hard to read, whereas on normal tv, it's very clear. I have the
<br>video encoded at a very high bitrate, so I'm sure it's not that (I've tried<br>up to 9000kbps and not noticed a difference).<br><br>-Thanks<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Which de-interlacer are you using? I just played the file in VLC and it looked bad until I enabled Bob detinerlacer.<br><br>Mitchell<br>