Hi, I have been using tmpgenc for my encoding, and I have noticed that the contrast is very high on encodes, and edges seems to be very jaggy when played back on TV.

When I play back the encodes in Windows media player, or any other player they look fine (no contrast problems, or jaggy lines), but when I use cyberlink PowerDVD, and play the VIDEO_TS folder all these problems are noticable, and the result is identical to the result I get on my TV.

Any help is aprreciated.

Here are my Tempgenc settings:
  • MPEG-2 Video
    720x480 (for NTSC)
    16:9 aspect ratio
    23.97 frame-rate

    Rate control mode:
    2-pass VBR

    Bit-rate:
    Average - 4500
    Max - 9000
    Min - 2000

    Unchecked - Enable padding to be lower then min bit-rate
    P spoilage - 0
    B spoilage – 0

    VBV buffer size - 224

    Profile and level:
    MP@ML

    Video format
    NTSC:

    Encode mode:
    3:2 pulldown

    YUV format:
    4:2:0

    DC component precision:
    10 bits

    Motion search precision:
    Highest quality

    Video source type:
    non-interlaced

    Field order:
    Bottom

    Source aspect ratio
    16:9

    Video arrange method:
    full screen (keep aspect ratio)


    Number of I picture in GOP: 1
    Number of P picture in GOP: 7
    Number of B picture in GOP: 1

    Output Interval of sequence header: 1
    Max number of frames in GOP: 18

    Unchecked – Output bitstream for edit (Closed GOP)
    Checked – Detect scene change
    Unchecked – Force picture type setting

    Quantize:
    CG/Animation

    Checked – Output YUV data as basic YCbCr not CCIR601
    Checked – Use floating point DOC (while using SSE always on)
    Unchecked – No motion search for still picture part by half-pixel
    Unchecked – Soften block noise