<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It is good the way you have it. Before the patch, when progressive media was input and the Deinterlace box was NOT checked, "mediainfo" always displayed "Interlaced, Top Field First". Mediainfo is not always 100%.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 8:12 AM Andrew Randrianasulu <<a href="mailto:randrianasulu@gmail.com">randrianasulu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">пт, 9 июн. 2023 г., 15:43 Andrew Randrianasulu <<a href="mailto:randrianasulu@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">randrianasulu@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">чт, 8 июн. 2023 г., 21:43 Phyllis Smith <<a href="mailto:phylsmith2017@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">phylsmith2017@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Andrew, after many, many runs and actual DVD media creation with these patches in, I am almost certain that all is working well and now there is the choice of creating BFF media. So answer to question of "do you still get interlaced" is "YES" as far as I can tell. Here are some of the results / differences seen when use "mediainfo":</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">1) GOP, Open/Closed : Open -------------------> Before<br> GOP, Open/Closed of first frame : Closed -------------------> Before</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> GOP, Open/Closed : Closed -------------------> After is just this 1 line which makes sense</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">2) Scan type is a little confusing though:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> Before -----> it always read Interlaced for all, whether or not the Deinterlace box was checked or not</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> After ------> if Deinterlace box is checked, it reads Interlace</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think it should be set to Progressive if deinterlace checked ....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sorry, back to double-checking my logic ..</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It seems with m2ts source and deinterlace on I get this mpeg2enc line:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Running /data/data/com.termux/files/home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/bin//mpeg2enc -v 0 -b 8000 -q 1 -a 2 -F 3 -H -c -I 0 -M 8 -f 8 -g 15 -G 15 -R 0 -o '/data/data/com.termux/files/home/tmp/dvd_20230609-161131/dvd.m2v'<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">no "-z" , also "I" equals zero</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">but mediainfo still says:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Scan type : Progressive Scan order : Top Field First<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">yet ffprobe says</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Input #0, mpegvideo, from '/data/data/com.termux/files/home/tmp/dvd_20230609-161131/dvd.m2v': Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv, bt470bg, progressive), 720x576 [SAR 16:15 DAR 4:3], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1200k tbn Side data: cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 8000000/0/0 buffer size: 1835008 vbv_delay: N/A<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I was dumb I selected pal 4:3 instead of pal 16:9 in dvd master ....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, may be this is bug (o-feature) in mediainfo?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyway, those parameters can be changed if you click on wrench icon on video (mpeg) stream in second-stage window where batch files already set up.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> After ------> if Deinterlace box is NOT checked, it reads Interlace IF input is interlaced BUT Progressive if input media is not interlaced.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Does the above make sense? (I think I stated it correctly).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the DVD media I tested on a really old non-digital TV with a DVD player, the BFF media looked about the same as the TFF media, even when original media was BFF or TFF. But the old TV was so bad looking, that I am not sure it was a good test.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Playing Interlaced DVD media on a new digital TV with a DVD player, looked decent but that is probably due to the software in the digital TV.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Playing DVD media on a new digital TV where the original input was interlaced and CinGG had the Deinterlace box checked, did result in some small jagged areas but mostly visible only when stop or step.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">RECOMMENDATION: if not editing the input media so you do not need an NLE, i.e. CinGG, probably should refer to ffmpeg, dvdauthor, or those forums that apply direct copies of media exclusively for creating DVDs.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 5:49 PM Phyllis Smith <<a href="mailto:phylsmith2017@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">phylsmith2017@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">Can you clarify even with my patches AND deinterlacing checkbox set in dvd creation window and "use ffmpeg" unchecked you still get interlaced?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Confusing results that I did not consider. I will thoroughly investigate "before and after" tomorrow and let you know what is happening. (I should have done this earlier).</span> </div></div></div>
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