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Old 19th November 2012, 19:32   #1  |  Link
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Weird effect on interlaced 1080i HDTV AVC

The title resumes the case very well hehe. Here are the frames (already deinterlaced) as the letters go upper:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2lt3ez3hs5pdug5

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It's a HDTV capture from Spain, Europe, so it is PAL.
Is a DVB-S broadcast.
Is a 1080i AVC with MBAFF interlacing.
The show is SNL, which is american, NTSC, so maybe something went wrong in a possibly convertion to pal in order to broadcast here.

That's all the facts I can think about now. No matter which deinterlace filter I appy, the same effect always prevail.

Maybe is just the way the credits are done, but I post here just to make sure.

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Old 19th November 2012, 20:08   #2  |  Link
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Post a sample of the unprocessed source.
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Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3g0oztj9pzi2c33
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Old 20th November 2012, 00:31   #4  |  Link
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It' strange. The scrolling credits exhibit field blending that does not appear on the video itself. I can't think of anything useful you can do to this.
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Old 20th November 2012, 09:24   #5  |  Link
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Could be because of the NTSC - PAL thing? Can you explain it again slower? English is not my navite language hehe.
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When you use SeparateFields() and view the individual fields, then you see blends of multiple pictures but only for the credits, not the video behind them.
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So is it just the way it's ogirinally printed? Or a defect of something?
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It's in the source material, yes. How it got that way is hard to say, but crappy standards conversions are legion.
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Old 20th November 2012, 16:23   #9  |  Link
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OK. Two last questions, any deinterlacing recomendation? Is it worth to make a 1080p version of the source?
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As I said, I can't think of anything useful you can do to this.

Regarding your second question, it depends on what you consider worthwhile, i.e., what your goals are.
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My goal is to keep the video for myself trying to get the best compression and the best quality as possible. What I was actually asking is that if it is worth, in general, to make a 1080p out of a 1080i, or if it is always a waste of time.

With the recommentaion, I meant to ask if there is any special deinterlacing filter for MBAFF HDTV AVC sources, if not, I will just use one of the usuals.
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Personally I would leave the original untouched and deinterlace in my player. But as they say, different strokes for different folks.

There is no special deinterlacing for MBAFF AVC. Use whatever pleases you.
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Thanks for all your help.
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I would also keep it as interlaced.

You might as well let your player deinterlace it during playback. With time, processing power as well as deinterlacers will improve, so in a few years time there may even be a QTGMC like quality (or better) real time deinterlacers.

So why bother with processing it now when it may potentially improve with time.
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I know you guys have told me to keep the original interlaced file. And I probably will do that. But in the meantime, just for experimenting and gain knowledge, I'm trying to create an encode that will weight almost the same as the source (for example from a 2.5 GB ts make a 2.4 or 2.45 mkv). These are the results I am having, after investigate a lot and making at least about 20 different tests:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/160092

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/160093

My question is, is that all the quality I'm going to have? Can I improve the encode even more to leave it almost exactly like the source?

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Well, in order to give you any answers, you should at least tell what you did. What deinterlacer did you use, and did you deinterlace to 50p or 25p?

Also, the quality can only be as good as the source, so I don't really know what you expect with a question like "is that all the quality I'm going to have?"
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Doesn't matter the deinterlacer I used, I'm comparing the encode to the avs applied to the source, not the raw source. With the quality I mean, if you look to the encode, some parts are smoother than the original video. This is the avs:

DGsource("Video.dgi")
YADIFMod(edeint=nnEDI3())
crop(2,2,-2,0)
spline36resize(1920,1080)

And it is at 25.000 FPS.

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Oh, you're talking about ENCODING.
Well, information of the codec and setting would be very useful.
What codec did you use? x264? With what program? MeGUI? What encoding settings did you use?
If you used x264, then encoding settings like
"cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 blah blah blah" would be really useful.

It is kind of difficult to give pointers without these infos man.

But in a nutshell, most of the time it's the bitrate which is responsible for drop of quality. If you want better quality, crank up the bitrate.

Also, unless there are some kind of limitations, I would recommend to deinterlace to 50p. If you deinterlace to 25p, you are basically throwing away half the data.

Also, if your goal is to keep it as a personal collection, there is really no point in deinterlacing it. Keeping it unaltered will of course always be better than a processed one since the source is the source.

The only reason people deinterlace is because they may be converting to some other type of medium/format which doesn't support interlaced video very well or at all, or they need to manipulate it or put effects on it.

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Old 25th November 2012, 16:01   #19  |  Link
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You're right, I forgot some things. Sorry.

I'm using MeGUI, x264, x264_64.exe being specific (MeGUI auto-chooses that one). After a lot of modifications now these are the settings:

program --level 4.1 --preset veryslow --crf 18.5 --deblock -1:0 --keyint 25 --min-keyint 13 --ref 9 --psy-rd 1.0:0.15 --no-dct-decimate --no-fast-pskip --output "output" "input"

Although some of them doesn't show on the command line, I think. I'm using crf, I tryed with const. bitrate but the encoding time was twice the crf one, so it wasn't useful to me. On my latests tests I'm having a 8200~ bitrate and the original ts has 8500~ bitrate so I'm not going to use more than that to make the encode look the same as the source.

If you need additional info please let me know.
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This is strange. Different encoding modes shouldn't take any longer time, unless you chose 2-pass, which naturally will take about 1.5 times longer. (First pass doesn't take as long as 2nd pass)
What will take longer time are other settings such as -me and -subme.
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