HAY GUYS

Render · 03:19 PM

I ripped my movies to my hard drive using DVD Decrypter. They ended up as .VOB and .IFO files and are just of the main movie itself, which is what I wanted. However, I noticed when I played the .VOB files in MPC, they got "scanliney". This happened when there was some amount of motion.

This is a screen cap from the movie, The Wild. I know for a fact that the DVD doesn't have this problem. What's going on here? I just ripped the main .VOB file from the disc and that was that. I didn't change anything.

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Also, is there a definitive way of discovering a DVD movie's framerate and resolution? GSpot won't accept DVDs or .VOBs as acceptable formats. MPC reports two statistics:

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Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (16:9) 29.97fps 8000Kbps [Video]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384Kbps [Audio]
Subtitle: DVD Subpicture [Subtitle]

And then a resolution of 853 x 480. I assume this one is right, but I still don't know it's true framerate. MPC's statistics window says 24.XX. Some of the other videos do say 29.XX FPS.

HALP?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Kaiten · Local time: Dec 12, 2006, 05:17 PM

Looks like your rip is from an interlaced DVD. You can use a filter from a media player (or encoding program) to deinterlace it.

Wikipedia article for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlace

There's nowhere I can't reach.

killmoms · Local time: Dec 12, 2006, 07:07 PM

It is not interlaced. The reason MPC says 23.976 is because it's actually progressive, but flagged to be automatically telecined for output to SD interlaced TVs. For whatever reason, your playback app is seeing that and doing that process. I'm pretty sure that any transcoder worth its salt will detect the correct thing and keep things progressive if you encode it to some other format, though it sounds like you don't want to do that.

How ya doing, buddy?

Render · Local time: Dec 12, 2006, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by killmoms

It is not interlaced. The reason MPC says 23.976 is because it's actually progressive, but flagged to be automatically telecined for output to SD interlaced TVs. For whatever reason, your playback app is seeing that and doing that process. I'm pretty sure that any transcoder worth its salt will detect the correct thing and keep things progressive if you encode it to some other format, though it sounds like you don't want to do that.

I've actually tried encoding the video files to a Matroska h.264 format and they still end up looking interlaced. It seems like DVD Decrypter has converted my movie to interlaced or something.

I don't know if this has anything to do with anything, but in my Decrypter settings, I'm breaking the CSS protection, and removing Macrovision protection.

How ya doing, buddy?