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  1. Hey again guys,

    I'm converting Hi8 tapes to DVD, using DV interlaced video as the source capture. I then burn the DVD interlaced, and play it back on two players. First player, panasonic bluray player BDT-310 connected to plasma display. It looks pretty BAD, wavy lines appear during panning and lots of artifacts. I looked at the settings but there's nothing to tweak. Is this an example of a interlacing-unaware player?

    I played it back on my playstation 3 connected to a projector and it looked better , however i saw those black comb lines, pretty apparent actually.

    I also hooked up bluray player to a 4:3 tube tv, and no difference. Do I actually need to buy a dvd player that "knows" how to handle interlaced material? How would I know if it does. Or is the best solution to burn the dvd de-interlaced and suck up the quality loss in exchange for smoother video?
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  2. All DVD and Blu-ray players and TVs support interlaced video. You did something wrong with the editing or encoding. Maybe the wrong field order or improper resizing.
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  3. Originally Posted by jagabo View Post
    All DVD and Blu-ray players and TVs support interlaced video. You did something wrong with the editing or encoding. Maybe the wrong field order or improper resizing.
    I kept everything at 720x480 and I'm using convertXtoDVD to make the dvd. I did not enable de-interlacing. I dunno.
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    Originally Posted by Event3horizon View Post
    I kept everything at 720x480 and I'm using convertXtoDVD to make the dvd. I did not enable de-interlacing. I dunno.
    This has little to do with deinterlacing (you do not need to). I bet all your DVD players and TVs are behaving as expected, too. What jagabo meant was, somewhere between capture, editing, and burning to DVD, your field order got switched. It may be a bug, a setting, a default, that has to be changed, etc. What was top field became bottom, and vv. This is likely why you see combs. Without more excruciatingly explicit details about how you got from Hi8 to DVD, hard to say anything more.
    For the nth time, with the possible exception of certain Intel processors, I don't have/ever owned anything whose name starts with "i".
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  5. Or maybe you encoded as progressive. Did I read that ConvertXToDVD always encodes as progressive? Got a sample?
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  6. Hi8 is top field first, DV is (normally) bottom field first. As turk690 and others have said, field order has probably been mishandled in the conversions.
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  7. Hi8 is neither top field first nor bottom field first. It's just an alternating sequence of top and bottom fields. When a DV device captures analog video it starts with a bottom field then adds the next field, a top field, to fill out the frame. That creates bottom field first frames. If you don't do anything that disturbs the field structure and encode as interlaced BFF for DVD they will play back properly on TV.

    Wavy vertical edges may indicate the frame was resized vertically without interlaced handling. For example, the software may have cropped 10 lines of head switching noise off the bottom of the frame and resized what was left to the original frame size. The size of the waves will vary depending on the amount of that was cropped:

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    Download Mpg2Cut2 and extract a few seconds from one of your VOB files (Mark-in, Mark-out, File -> Save This Clip). Upload it here.
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  8. Originally Posted by jagabo View Post
    Download Mpg2Cut2 and extract a few seconds from one of your VOB files (Mark-in, Mark-out, File -> Save This Clip). Upload it here.
    A few seconds of your DV source might be helpful for comparison too.
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  9. Sure.. I'll get the samples as soon as I find time. In the meantime, i'm trying another nice freeware called dvd flick that takes lots of source video files and makes them a DVD.
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  10. Originally Posted by Event3horizon View Post
    In the meantime, i'm trying another nice freeware called dvd flick that takes lots of source video files and makes them a DVD.
    My guess is your problem will disappear. AvsToDVD is better, though.
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  11. according to media info, the source video captured is:

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    General
    Complete name                            : D:\Hi8 Project\MKD2002-Tape_1.avi
    Format                                   : AVI
    Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
    Commercial name                          : DVCPRO
    Format profile                           : OpenDML
    File size                                : 26.5 GiB
    Duration                                 : 2h 5mn
    Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
    Overall bit rate                         : 30.3 Mbps
    
    Video
    ID                                       : 0
    Format                                   : DV
    Commercial name                          : DVCPRO
    Codec ID                                 : dvsd
    Codec ID/Hint                            : Sony
    Duration                                 : 2h 5mn
    Bit rate mode                            : Constant
    Bit rate                                 : 24.4 Mbps
    Encoded bit rate                         : 28.8 Mbps
    Width                                    : 720 pixels
    Height                                   : 480 pixels
    Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
    Frame rate mode                          : Constant
    Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
    Standard                                 : NTSC
    Color space                              : YUV
    Chroma subsampling                       : 4:1:1
    Bit depth                                : 8 bits
    Scan type                                : Interlaced
    Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 2.357
    Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:00;00
    Time code source                         : Subcode time code
    Stream size                              : 25.1 GiB (95%)
    
    Audio
    ID                                       : 1
    Format                                   : PCM
    Format settings, Endianness              : Little
    Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
    Codec ID                                 : 1
    Duration                                 : 2h 5mn
    Bit rate mode                            : Constant
    Bit rate                                 : 1 411.2 Kbps
    Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
    Sampling rate                            : 44.1 KHz
    Bit depth                                : 16 bits
    Stream size                              : 1.23 GiB (5%)
    Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
    Interleave, duration                     : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
    Interleave, preload duration             : 33 ms
    and the one of the resultant VOB files using DVDflick are:

    Code:
    General
    Complete name                            : G:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
    Format                                   : MPEG-PS
    File size                                : 1 024 MiB
    Duration                                 : 28mn 48s
    Overall bit rate                         : 4 969 Kbps
    
    Video
    ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
    Format                                   : MPEG Video
    Format version                           : Version 2
    Format profile                           : Main@Main
    Format settings, BVOP                    : No
    Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
    Format settings, GOP                     : N=14
    Duration                                 : 28mn 48s
    Bit rate                                 : 4 669 Kbps
    Width                                    : 720 pixels
    Height                                   : 480 pixels
    Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
    Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
    Standard                                 : NTSC
    Color space                              : YUV
    Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
    Bit depth                                : 8 bits
    Scan type                                : Progressive
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.451
    Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:00:00
    Time code source                         : Group of pictures header
    Stream size                              : 964 MiB (94%)
    
    Audio
    ID                                       : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
    Format                                   : AC-3
    Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
    Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
    Format settings, Endianness              : Big
    Muxing mode                              : DVD-Video
    Duration                                 : 28mn 48s
    Bit rate mode                            : Constant
    Bit rate                                 : 192 Kbps
    Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
    Channel positions                        : Front: L R
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
    Bit depth                                : 16 bits
    Compression mode                         : Lossy
    Stream size                              : 39.6 MiB (4%)
    
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    I tried DVD flick but unfortunately it has the same results as convertxtodvd, and do you guys think maybe fitting 2 hours into a 4.7GB dvd is too much? I see a lot of encoding artifact.
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  12. You encoded it as progressive. You may not be able to encode as interlaced in ConvertXToDVD, but you can set DVDFlick to encode interlaced. Instead of choosing NTSC-Film, choose NTSC. Or use the better AVSToDVD.
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  13. Originally Posted by manono View Post
    You encoded it as progressive. You may not be able to encode as interlaced in ConvertXToDVD, but you can set DVDFlick to encode interlaced. Instead of choosing NTSC-Film, choose NTSC. Or use the better AVSToDVD.
    Well thats weird, I didn't choose NTSC film to begin with. I chose just NTSC. Using NTSC film wouldn't it screw up the frame rate at 24fps?
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  14. I'm going to try avstodvd.. it definitely looks like it has more options.
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  15. avstodvd looks like it's doing it right. The resultant VOBs are interlaced.. however when I play it on my blue ray player on a plasma display, it looks like it's de-interlacing it and it's almost 'movie like' on motion now. I'm guessing the player is doing it. I'll do some more testing when I get the time. Thanks!
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