flambot
20th July 2007, 03:42
Hello. I've been backing up my DVD's to a media server accessed by XBMC via AnyDVD and DVDShrink. Everything is fine and good. Then I switched to some TV shows (on DVD) and discovered an episode in Smallville (one Chapter actually) that had some strange ripples around the outline of the actors. On close-ups, there were also "venetian blind" type lines in places like over their mouths and on the tip of their nose etc. I also noticed the same thing (not always) between scene changes (ones with a blank fade) that happened really fast.
Initially, I thought this was a bad rip, but I did it again using different S/ware and it is the same. My gut feeling is that it's some type of encoding problem - probably when the video was originally encoded for the DVD (low data rate perhaps?).
The funny thing is that you cannot see this directly from the disc via a DVD player or playing it back through PowerDVD. Using VLC the ripples/lines look more square in nature. They look really bad through XBMC - almost unwatchable.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a proper name for what I am seeing. Can it be removed/minimalised? I'm disturbed the DVD player/PowerDVD doesn't see it, yet XBMC does :mad:
It's not on every episode or on any of the movies I've ripped. Not knowing what this is, or called, makes it difficult to find the right info via searching. Looking forward to some answers. Thx in advance.
Initially, I thought this was a bad rip, but I did it again using different S/ware and it is the same. My gut feeling is that it's some type of encoding problem - probably when the video was originally encoded for the DVD (low data rate perhaps?).
The funny thing is that you cannot see this directly from the disc via a DVD player or playing it back through PowerDVD. Using VLC the ripples/lines look more square in nature. They look really bad through XBMC - almost unwatchable.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a proper name for what I am seeing. Can it be removed/minimalised? I'm disturbed the DVD player/PowerDVD doesn't see it, yet XBMC does :mad:
It's not on every episode or on any of the movies I've ripped. Not knowing what this is, or called, makes it difficult to find the right info via searching. Looking forward to some answers. Thx in advance.