1080i to 1080p to x264.

[colyte]

Hey there folks,

I was planning on just deinterlacing the 1080i source which would give me a 1080p at 30fps if I'm not totally mistaken. And the encode this with x264 again.

In any case I was hoping for some input from people that has done this before and hopefully get some advice on what might be best practice regarding this and if there's anything relevant that I haven't thought of.

I'm on linux, using gentoo so all the appropriate tools is available atleast for that platform. And it's all recent (mostly cvs/svn builds).

thanks in advance :)

[bond]

if its a satellite capture make sure that its really interlaced, because depending on the content it often is not interlaced (eg for movies)

you can find this out by demuxing the stream to raw, run the h264_parse tool from mpeg4ip over it and check the used interlaced mode or progressiveness as described by me here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96598)

[colyte]

Neato, exactly the type of input I was looking for, thanks :)

[bob0r]

I can add:
Only BBC-HD uses MBAFF interlacing, thus both progressive and interlaced.
All other H.264 captures i have checked so far were all PAFF-progressive.