I'm recording Comcast cable TV. It looks like there's some content that that's incorrectly flagged when playing it back via cyberlink pdvd 8 mpeg2 video decoder. I'm curious what easiest options I have to watch these recordings correctly. For example: 1- Could configure my pdvd video decoder (directshow NOT CYBERLINK PLAYER) to try different deinterlacing menthods that dont depend on flags? I know these options are available for the PowerDVD player itself. However, I dont know how to change these options of for the direct show filter only. 2- A very simple software that can read the flag attribute of a video clip and allow me to change it. I'm not sure if this can be done without re-encoding (which i dont want to do at all). Thanks! MKANET
Here's one clip... it definitely doesnt play correctly on my setup. Maybe you can find something in the flags that would cause it to playback incorrectly.
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It's 3:2 pulldown using a combination of hard and soft pulldown. I've seen a few of these lately. I would expect such streams to thoroughly confuse some players. I doubt that you can fix this by changing interlaced/progressive flagging.
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It's very common for real-time HD MPEG-2 encoders to fall in and out of inverse telecine. Here's a command line utility to dump the telecine flags of MPEG-2 video elementary streams: For example, here's the dump from a portion of mkanet's file. Code:
Below video is only 12MB's and is a perfect example of jump video and flashes of deinterlace combing artifacts. It's happening once every 3 seconds. Maybe there's some flags in the video that might have you a hint to whats wrong. Thanks!
I just found out what's wrong. It was my display adapter (8800GT). I swapped it out with my old Nvidia 8600GT, and it played everything back using the same decoders, same driver (and driver settings). I dont know how the card got damaged specifically that way without affecting anything else.