Pixelization of Edges of Objects in a Scene

[Gary Dillon]

I am a new user and recently purchased an analog capture card through Pinncacle. I connected my Hi8 camcorder through RCA jacks into the analog capture card and captured into DV. I then created an MPEG2 file from the edited DV and created an SVCD as a testcase with menu's (I have not purchasd a DVD burner yet). Everything went well; however, when I play the MPEG2 file on Windows media player, I get pixalization on the edges of items in the scenes which have movement (i.e. transition from one scene to another or as a result of a zoom in/out). Once the movement stops the picture edges clear up to a crisp edge. Unfortunately my DVD player is old enough that it does not support SVCDs so I have no other way of verifying the end result. My question: Is this normal. Is this perhaps something in my system which is not fast enough to represent the MPEG2. My expectation was to see a quality level at least equal to that of the Hi8 tape. When I play the DV image captured in the Pinnacle editor everyhting looks good. Any insight would be appreciated.[/img][/code]

[MaiOns]

I'm having kinda of the same problem. Except mine is in a dvd instead of a svcd.
When there's movement in the videos, the edges get rough and pictures not shown properly.
I thought it had to do with the "field position thing" (upper field or bottom field first)... I changed it through tmpgenc (from upper field to bottom field field first)... but still nothing changed. Pictures still edgy.

Please help.

[aedipuss]

dvd video you create is interlaced. fine on a tv, but computer monitors are progressive these days. what you are seeing could just be poor or no de-interlacing by the program playing the video.

you could try a software player like powerdvd that handles interlacing, or an adjustable one like vlc where you can choose what type of de-interlacing you want for each video.

[redwudz]

Does it look similar to this?:

Interlace distortion



Usually it doesn't look that bad.

[MaiOns]

Thnaks for the reply.
A bit like that.
When played on pc, its fine.
But when played on dvd player, it gets... well... you know... picture gets rough on the edges, when there's movement.
Can someone help?
PLEASE!
Thanks.

[MaiOns]

What is meant by "noise aroud the edges"?
Maybe that's what causing this.

[redwudz]

MaiOns, please don't ask the same question in multiple threads. Continue here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/318046-Noise-around-the-edges