idbirch2
23rd May 2004, 01:25
I've been using DVD-RB for some time now and it's coming on brilliantly - every bug I have come across has been swiftly stamped out and I haven't had a problem with it for ages - thanks jdobbs!
The thing I can't get my head around is how DVD Rebuilder detects progressive/interlaced material. Previously I used the Big3 to do my backups and that was a royal pain in the ass for this. I'm in PAL land so with 99% of DVDs the main movie is progressive and extras are interlaced (and normally 4:3 aswell). It wasn't that difficult but basically they had to be manually set - even if DoItFast4U detected them right, BatchCCEws wouldn't apply the settings it had detected meaning manually configuring P/I sources.
I can't see it being something simple otherwise surely the Big3 would be able to do it properly plus I've seen plenty of discussions mentioning how hard it is to make software that can correctly identify PAL interlaced/progressive material. Also I know that the header flags in PAL stream are almost always full of crap and have everything down as interlaced. So how does DVD-RB do it??
The thing I can't get my head around is how DVD Rebuilder detects progressive/interlaced material. Previously I used the Big3 to do my backups and that was a royal pain in the ass for this. I'm in PAL land so with 99% of DVDs the main movie is progressive and extras are interlaced (and normally 4:3 aswell). It wasn't that difficult but basically they had to be manually set - even if DoItFast4U detected them right, BatchCCEws wouldn't apply the settings it had detected meaning manually configuring P/I sources.
I can't see it being something simple otherwise surely the Big3 would be able to do it properly plus I've seen plenty of discussions mentioning how hard it is to make software that can correctly identify PAL interlaced/progressive material. Also I know that the header flags in PAL stream are almost always full of crap and have everything down as interlaced. So how does DVD-RB do it??