Well... no :D

RE: the last post with the quotes from the doc...
A lot of folks go through these threads both to fix prob & learn -- know I have & do, and often we tell people to search through them looking for a prior post &/or cure. In that sense it was directed to everyone. :)

I wanted to show, in Microsoft's words, that the purpose of the moire-like pattern you posted (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...371#post703371) was to dance on an interlaced screen - if you saw dancing on your hi-res progressive monitor, your setup was possibly (probably?) screwed up. :) I frankly hope to stop readers from running this test pattern and posting all over that they have a problem when they don't. And I posted the actual quotes because I wanted to make sure it was very clear: this pattern will cause interlace flicker.

There are others that are standard, go higher in terms of measuring Horiz lines of resolution, and available online. There's even a couple in the Windows Media Resource kit that most have already I think, and they do color. Perhaps a good solution for you might be to cut and paste a portion of these over the moire in your pattern? Serves no purpose on interlaced...

Anyway, thanks for the monitor info :) -- I've got someone keeping their eyes open. I also want to go through my software and see what supports the Amiga colorspace & pixel aspect (that was unique too) and if it applies. :D

Travlac: Here is a link to a still image from the MPEG2 that I captured using copy to clipboard in VirtualDub-MPEG2. I then pasted that into Paint and saved it as a bitmap. Then I compressed it to a JPEG at 95% Quality setting using Ulead iphoto express so the image file size would match yours for a fair comparison. The MPEG2 itself was made with ProShow Gold with the default settings checked for “Desaturate image to 80%” and “Apply anti-flicker filter to video” the video bitrate was 9000kbps VBR. As you all can see my still has higher resolution visible with less artifacting on the black material, but the color is not near as good as travlac’s still photo. The DVD’s color is marginally better when viewed on the TV sets but the green color on the “5%” lettering is still very bad and blurry. I did another one leaving the Desaturate image checkbox unchecked but the color was even worse. Let me reiterate that the DVD’s I make from ProShow do not flicker on the TV’s (or computer using WinDVD) playback using a Norcent DVD player to the 5 TV’s (47 inch, to 19 inch) throughout my home, some connected with S-video, & some with composite connectors.
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1...eencapt.th.jpg]bobcats capture JPEG from the MPEG2 [/URL]

Is this sample any better?


Cheers

SeeMoreDigital: Very Good! Yours is the best MPEG2 so far. It reinforces what I’ve been saying all along, that it can be done in MPEG2 (DVD). The real challenge though is doing it as a DV AVI that looks as good as your MPEG2, as I stated in my original post was the objective. Please share how you achieved such a good MPEG2 with everyone in great detail, so we can learn from it, and replicate your method.