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14th December 2015, 18:39 | #1 | Link |
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BD-Rebuilder: To upscale or not to upscale, that is the question.
I have a 720p HD MP4 file. Since it is in a non Blu-ray compliant aspect ratio (1280 x 544), it will have have to be re-encoded in the process of converting it to Blu-ray format with BD-Rebuilder.
My question is this: would it be better to author the Blu-ray in 720p resolution, or to upscale it to 1080p (using BD-RB's "Resize - 1280 x 720 to 1920 x 1080" option)? Also, the file has a 320 kbps AAC audio track, which BD-Rebuilder has automatically converted to a 192 kbps AC3 file (during the preliminary pseudo-BD conversion process). I tried checking the "Use 448 Kbs for AC3 encoding" option, but it still converts the file into 192 kbps. Will this result in a significant loss in audio quality? Last edited by hbenthow; 14th December 2015 at 22:05. |
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In most cases upscaling is going to happen either way. So the choice is: 1) Do I leave it at 720p and let my hardware device (playback unit) do the upscaling during playback or 2) Let BD Rebuilder do the upscaling during the encoding.
My experience has been that the upscaling available via AVISYNTH (used in BD Rebuilder) is better in most cases. So I do it during encoding (at the expense of a little more storage space). If you have a high-end playback unit, though, the difference in upscaling may not even be noticable. My Sony BD Player does a really good job of converting 720p to 1080p. But you never know what kind of unit it may be played upon in the future (I've seen some that are terrible) -- so why not just do it right from the start? Last edited by jdobbs; 5th January 2016 at 16:48. |
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That's easy enough. There are already hidden options to change the resize method (UPRESIZE and DOWNRESIZE, see HIDDENOPTS.TXT). I'll just add more to the list of accepted parameters.
[Edit] Ok, I've added every resize method from AVISYNTH to the list (see here). They'll be available in the next release. Last edited by jdobbs; 8th January 2016 at 15:37. |
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AssumeTFF() Bob(0,0) LanczosResize() AssumeTFF() SeparateFields() SelectEvery(4,0,3) Weave() to that one: SeparateFields() Lanczosresize() Weave() I would really appreciate your expertise. There are a lot of various explanations in the internet. It seems people prefer the first way (bobbing) to the second (without deinterlacing). Thank you very much in advance. Last edited by mparade; 9th January 2016 at 01:25. |
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- I would want BD-RB to use it's upresize option; - Before the upresize filter I would use (using the avs filter editor) an other filter, e.g. for noise reduction; -After the noise reduction and upresizing occured I would want to use an other filter, e.g. for adding a little grain back to the video or sharpening it a bit more. I think, having the option to be able to determine the order of the filters would be useful if there would be any mean of using a certain order of filters. As far as I know, it is currently not possible in BD-RB. Do you see any good of it? [Edit] the best methode here is to use the avs filter editor to write the complete filter-chain with upresize to HD unchecked in the settings window. But, in this case --sar parameter should be overwritten due to the different sample aspect ration between the source and output. Thank you very much! Last edited by mparade; 16th January 2016 at 12:48. |
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