Brassplyer
29th December 2016, 20:59
A particular video I'm working on doesn't look the same when played off Blu-Ray to a 1080p HDTV as it does played on a 1080p computer monitor. It's upscaled SD but I don't think the difference can be explained just due to being viewed at a larger size. Using an LG Blu-Ray player going to the tv via HDMI.
Where it's really noticeable is on longer shots - when viewed on the TV off Blu-Ray it takes on a sort of "Impressionist" blotchiness. On the computer monitor while obviously there's no more detail there's at least a smoothness to the image even when zoomed in - which is why I think the issue is something other than just being viewed larger on the tv. It's not a high-dollar tv but commercial Blu-Ray, homemade HD video Blu-Ray, OTA HD broadcasts, retro-TV channels that broadcast SD shows, commercial DVD that's been encoded with enough bitrate, video games all look fine on the tv.
Playing the raw m2t file through the Blu-Ray player has the same issue. Progressive or interlaced no difference. Upscaled to 720 or 1080 same. Using what I'm sure is an overkill bitrate - 20mbps. The file started as a VHS capture to DVD I got from someone else. De-noised with Neat Video, deinterlaced with QTGMC, upscaled with Avisynth Lanczos4resize, rendered as m2t in Vegas Pro 9.
Since I can't screen shot what it looks like on the TV on my end, I'm including a link to a short 29 meg sample m2t you can burn to disk and see if you get the same results. Both a distant and closeup shot. The closeup shot of the trumpet player looks decent, the more distant shot of the band is where the problem is really obvious.
960 x 720 m2t file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zvAZXgfLgiOFhPcUotVDZmakk/view?usp=sharing
Is there some fundamental difference in how the Blu-Ray player and/or TV handles the file vs. the computer? What if anything can I do to make it look the same on the TV as it does on the monitor?
Thanks for all input.
Where it's really noticeable is on longer shots - when viewed on the TV off Blu-Ray it takes on a sort of "Impressionist" blotchiness. On the computer monitor while obviously there's no more detail there's at least a smoothness to the image even when zoomed in - which is why I think the issue is something other than just being viewed larger on the tv. It's not a high-dollar tv but commercial Blu-Ray, homemade HD video Blu-Ray, OTA HD broadcasts, retro-TV channels that broadcast SD shows, commercial DVD that's been encoded with enough bitrate, video games all look fine on the tv.
Playing the raw m2t file through the Blu-Ray player has the same issue. Progressive or interlaced no difference. Upscaled to 720 or 1080 same. Using what I'm sure is an overkill bitrate - 20mbps. The file started as a VHS capture to DVD I got from someone else. De-noised with Neat Video, deinterlaced with QTGMC, upscaled with Avisynth Lanczos4resize, rendered as m2t in Vegas Pro 9.
Since I can't screen shot what it looks like on the TV on my end, I'm including a link to a short 29 meg sample m2t you can burn to disk and see if you get the same results. Both a distant and closeup shot. The closeup shot of the trumpet player looks decent, the more distant shot of the band is where the problem is really obvious.
960 x 720 m2t file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0zvAZXgfLgiOFhPcUotVDZmakk/view?usp=sharing
Is there some fundamental difference in how the Blu-Ray player and/or TV handles the file vs. the computer? What if anything can I do to make it look the same on the TV as it does on the monitor?
Thanks for all input.