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Janzki
27th August 2007, 12:32
I'm trying to get screencaps from a film through PowerDVD 7.3 on Windows Vista. My video card is a 8800GTS. Latest program and driver updates are installed. This is what I get. (Look at the outline of the actress' skirt and the actor's leg.)

HW acceleration off, no deinterlacing:
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7891/noaccnodeintld3.th.png (http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=noaccnodeintld3.png)

HW acceleration off, pixel adaptive deinterlacing:
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7540/noaccpixeladaptivedeintqw0.th.png (http://img340.imageshack.us/my.php?image=noaccpixeladaptivedeintqw0.png)

HW acceleration on, no deinterlacing:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7904/accnodeintuu3.th.png (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=accnodeintuu3.png)

HW acceleration on, hardware deinterlacing (option 2 in PowerDVD):
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5523/acchardwaredeintmx9.th.png (http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=acchardwaredeintmx9.png)

When I play the file in DGIndex, Windows Media Player or Zoom Player, it looks ok. And in PowerDVD too, unless I disable hardware acceleration. I need to get the caps in this particular way for a DVD quality comparison. :(

Here's the clip I took the screenshots from:

http://www.saunalahti.fi/jnzk/VTS_01_1.demuxed.m2v

Is there anything I could do?

Janzki
27th August 2007, 18:54
Detailed PowerDVD info...


*** hw acceleration on, no deint ***

Player Information:
Player Region Code: Not Specified
Current Drive: H:
Title Region Code: Not Available

Display Information:
Video Mode: Progressive
Display Mode: DirectShow
FourCC Code: NV12
Surface Type: Hardware Video Accelerator (DxVA)

Video Attributes:
Video compression mode: MPEG-2
TV system: 525/60 (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Display Mode: Both Pan&scan and Letterbox
Source picture resolution: 720x480 (525/60)
Frame Rate: 30.00
Source picture letterboxed: Not letterboxed
Bitrate: 4.87Mbps

Audio Attributes: Not Available

Subpicture Attribute: Not Available

Hardware Information:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ running at 2399 MHz
3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
Enhanced 3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
3DNow! Professional Technology: Not Detected
IA MMX Technology: In Use
IA Streaming SIMD Extensions: In Use
IA SSE 2: In Use
Video Accelerator: DirectX VA (in use)
Multispeaker Audio Device: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) (not in use)
SPDIF Output Device: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) (not in use)


*** hw acceleration off, no deint ***

Player Information:
Player Region Code: Not Specified
Current Drive: H:
Title Region Code: Not Available

Display Information:
Video Mode: Progressive
Display Mode: DirectDraw
FourCC Code: YUY2
Surface Type: Overlay

Video Attributes:
Video compression mode: MPEG-2
TV system: 525/60 (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Display Mode: Both Pan&scan and Letterbox
Source picture resolution: 720x480 (525/60)
Frame Rate: 30.00
Source picture letterboxed: Not letterboxed
Bitrate: 4.97Mbps

Audio Attributes: Not Available

Subpicture Attribute: Not Available

Hardware Information:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ running at 2399 MHz
3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
Enhanced 3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
3DNow! Professional Technology: Not Detected
IA MMX Technology: In Use
IA Streaming SIMD Extensions: In Use
IA SSE 2: In Use
Video Accelerator: DirectX VA (not in use)
Multispeaker Audio Device: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) (not in use)
SPDIF Output Device: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) (not in use)