Quick Encoding Question

[Master Yoda]

OK, gonning back to something RB said in another post.With pal stuff if i see no interlacing lines in dvd2avi or in virtual dub i encode the footage progressive even though dvd2avi and bitrate viewer say interlaced.
Now what i would like to clear up is what RB said, that if bitrate viewer says its interlaced, even though theres no combing to leave converttoyuy2=true even though im encoding progressive because BV said its interlaced.

Is this correct.... ??

[dazzle]

Bitrate viewer is off sometimes, so you can't trust it.
If you don't see any "combing" artifacts in dvd2avi (or you could play your demuxed file in Media Player), it's progressive.

Hmmm, think I misunderstood your question a bit...

[jel]

@ Master Yoda

i was going to give you the link to thread that discussed this issue, but i noticed that you started the thread :rolleyes:
heres the relevant quote from RB from that thread
I think it comes down to this:

If original stream is DCT Type: Field and Frame Type: Interlaced, use interlaced=true.

Then to decide whether to reencode as interlaced or progressive, check the video for combing artifacts. If it really looks progressive, we can happily encode as such (Progressive Frames: on, Scan Order: ZigZag). This is because we are reencoding in YUY2 colorspace where chroma samples are stored the same way for both interlaced and progressive video. If CCE supported YV12 so we could leave out the ConvertToYUY2() in the AVS, we indeed should replicate the original stream settings in CCE because chroma is stored differently for interlaced video in YV12.

i hope that answers your question .... again.

[Master Yoda]

Yep, i can say that did answer my question.