newbie question.

[Myran79]

Hi all!

Just bought a tv-card and started to transfer from vhs to dvd everything works fine. I capture with VirtualVCR and encode with Tmpgenc 3 Express.
The problem is when i´m done it looks good on the tv but it looks bad on my computer, why?

Hope someone can explain why!

/Jonas

[bugster]

My thoughts on this:
Your source is interlaced. Your capture is therefor interlaced, Your TV is interlaced, your PC is not.

Play it on the PC with PowerDvd or WinDVD and it should look OK.

[Myran79]

My thoughts on this:
Your source is interlaced. Your capture is therefor interlaced, Your TV is interlaced, your PC is not.

Play it on the PC with PowerDvd or WinDVD and it should look OK.

Yeah the source is interlaced but i deinterlaced it.
And i play it in Power dvd.
For the best quality what should i use? deinterlaced or interlaced?

[bazooka]

My thoughts on this:
Your source is interlaced. Your capture is therefor interlaced, Your TV is interlaced, your PC is not.

Play it on the PC with PowerDvd or WinDVD and it should look OK.

Yeah the source is interlaced but i deinterlaced it.
And i play it in Power dvd.
For the best quality what should i use? deinterlaced or interlaced?

It depends on what you want to watch it on.

Tv needs interlaced, computer does not.

[Capmaster]

If you're playing it on the PC, then "non-interlaced". If you're playing it on a TV, then "interlaced".

[Myran79]

Ok, thax guys!

But is all dvd´s interlaced (the one´s you buy in store)?

[bugster]

Ok, thax guys!

But is all dvd´s interlaced (the one´s you buy in store)?

No. Many are, some aren't. If you play one that is not interlaced on your standalone DVD player, unless you have a progressive player and set it to output progressive, it will output it interlaced.

If your source is interlaced, and you intend to watch it on a TV, leave it interlaced. De-interlacing will only introduce artefacts and reduce quality.

If your source is progressive, leave it that way.

[Myran79]

Ok, thax guys!

But is all dvd´s interlaced (the one´s you buy in store)?

No. Many are, some aren't. If you play one that is not interlaced on your standalone DVD player, unless you have a progressive player and set it to output progressive, it will output it interlaced.

If your source is interlaced, and you intend to watch it on a TV, leave it interlaced. De-interlacing will only introduce artefacts and reduce quality.

If your source is progressive, leave it that way.

Thax very much Bugster! I will try that!

[sacajaweeda]

Quoting a passage from The Bible:

Technically, DVD-Video can only be stored in interlaced format. Signals from standard video cameras are already in interlaced format. Film, which is inherently progressive, is encoded into MPEG-2 as paired fields. Even though the encoding is field-based, the frame-based nature of the source can be preserved. This allows progressive scan players to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

HTH

[Myran79]

Hi Guys! I´m back! This is how it looks, i can´t imagen that the difference should be this bad.

This is from my avi that is captured with VirtualVCR



And this is what it looks like when i encode it



I encode with Tmpgenc 3, no filters.

What is the problem?

Hope someone can help me?

/Jonas