Luminance level for CCE why 16-235 ??

[apfraats]

Can anybody explain me why the luminance level for CCE is FORCED to be in the range 16-235 and not 0-255 ???

Thanks.

[Video Dude]

Your TV has a range of 16-235.

But that setting does nothing since DVD-RB works in YV12 (and YUY2 for CCE) and not RGB. That setting only takes effect if you input RGB into CCE.

[apfraats]

Thanx, no matter so what it is set too.

[buzzqw]

wow!
thanks too , don't know about this !

BHH

[magic144]

yip, check out the CCE FAQ
and read the answer to Q12

note the sentence:
DVD2AVI projects frame served into CCE via AVISynth/mpeg2decX.dll do not use RGB but the YUV color space which is basically just another name for YCbCr. So no conversion takes place and you can ignore both the YUV -> RGB Scale setting in DVD2AVI and the Luminance Level setting in CCE.

Obviously, this applies equally to DVD-RB since it also frameserves to CCE using AVISynth.