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High Definition Playback Guide

This means your player is interpreting the pixels as squares, but they actually are not square.
In fact every pixel is 1.333... times as wide as it is tall. It's written somewhere in the TS file, and your player must interpret it as that.

Same thing with DVDs, their resolution is 720x576 (or 720x480 if you're weird), no matter if it is a 4:3 or 16:9 image. All that is changed is the shape of a pixel.
 
I thought that was odd with episode 3 as well. The first two episodes had a widescreen format and did not default to 4:3 like the third episode TS rip.
 
The First 720p rip of this season was 5.1, the 2nd,3rd,and 4th have all been 2 channel... Any chance of getting more 5.1 channel rips?

Dr.
 
Dr_EluSivE said:
The First 720p rip of this season was 5.1, the 2nd,3rd,and 4th have all been 2 channel... Any chance of getting more 5.1 channel rips?

Dr.
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The show is recorded in stereo AFAIK, so I don't see the point.
 
Dr_EluSivE said:
The First 720p rip of this season was 5.1, the 2nd,3rd,and 4th have all been 2 channel... Any chance of getting more 5.1 channel rips?

Dr.
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The only 5.1 bit in the episodes is the BBC lady at the end telling you what's on next. She's talking to you from FL,FR,C,LFE... the boys only use FR and FL, so there really is no point in having the extra four channels for the entire time only to have a better BBC lady experience :lmao:
 
narf said:
The only 5.1 bit in the episodes is the BBC lady at the end telling you what's on next. She's talking to you from FL,FR,C,LFE... the boys only use FR and FL, so there really is no point in having the extra four channels for the entire time only to have a better BBC lady experience :lmao:
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According to Rule 34, there are people out there who would give everything for a better BBC Lady experience.
 
narf said:
The only 5.1 bit in the episodes is the BBC lady at the end telling you what's on next. She's talking to you from FL,FR,C,LFE... the boys only use FR and FL, so there really is no point in having the extra four channels for the entire time only to have a better BBC lady experience :lmao:
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Ah, No Worries then, Just thought if it was good we should have it, but if its only 2 channel anyway no point in wasting the bits..

Dr.
 
I've got a question. I've searched the entire thread for some hints to my situation but haven't found anything that's heading down what i think is the right road yet. I don't know if anyone else has tried/done this already, but if so, maybe they can help me ;)

Setup:
Windows 7 MCE
Xbox 360 with MCE attached to main PC

What I'm trying to do is get the 1080i TS file to stream through to the Xbox over MCE. Just can't get it to work though.

I've tried remuxing the file to m2ts, which doesn't seem to work. I think I've found the reason to be that the 1080i video is coded in H.264? If that's true, I think thats why this isn't working. MCE doesn't like H.264 yet.

If that's the case, how would you recomend transcoding the TS file to mpeg2 for playback in my setup?

(I'm not really looking to use a live transcode SW like TVersity)

(Thanks in advance for help/advice!!!)
 
Malice said:
Want to make the 1080i look even better? The deinterlacing to use with VLC is ... LINEAR. As it says, new frame material is being generated in a "smarter" way than Bob.
http://wiki.videolan.org/Deinterlacing#Linear

Finally, a question from a Canadian... Why is BBCHD only in interlaced format?
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1. ATI HD series video cards should support Motion Adaptive and Vector Adaptive de-interlacing which should be even better. (My HD3850 has that option; however, a HP-Compaq laptop with HD4200 doesn't). Can not comment whether the green party (nVidia, I mean :mrgreen:) has this option
2. 1080p (progressive) would hog too much bandwidth- this is the reason why 1080p is only used on BR and on some shows on the Interwebs.

Oh, and why are people still using VLC? MPC-HC should be a lot better and supports DXVA (that is, you can use your nVidia GF8+/ATI HD-series/Intel HD GMA's to decode the video instead of the CPU). It also has the ability to use the shaders to add/calculate filters to improve image quality.

einzack said:
i've had a quick look at my TV's manual and it's got a few bits of info, but this seems to be the one i want right?
Max. display resolution (for PC connection)
4:3 - 1,440 x 1,080 pixels
16:9 - 1,920 x 1,080 pixels

that seems to be good news right...
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That seems ok, but no info is provided if that is on the HDMI or VGA input of your TV- it might support those resolutions only on HDMI
 
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So I installed CCCP and am using MPC-HC, but I need hardware acceleration because lil' Atom is having a bit of a rough time. I did some looking around, but it seems like I'd have to buy CareAVC to be able to use CUDA for HA. Is there a free player or plugin that will do this?
 
Free players (mpchc for instance) will do DXVA as long as your GPU supports it (yay for acronyms).
 
Does it do that automatically or is there some setting I'm not seeing? Also, are nVidia cards compatible with DXVA?
 
There may be settings, dunno because my GPU fails at it. There was an entire thread (and fg.com news post) dedicated to hardware accelerated h264.
 
It was a setting, I had to enable the DXVA-assisted transform filters under Internal Filters.
 
im not getting dts or dolby digital. were they recorded in hd video and not hd sound? other wise it looks awsome just wish it sounded awsome.
 
Well, I've found the answer to my sistuation if anyone else likes to stream the 1080i version to their xbox using media center. All you have to do is convert the full video file with VLC and change the "container" to "MPEG-PS". Make sure to check the boxes for keeping the original video and audio tracks. Rename the outputed file to a .mp4 file and that's it!

Basically what you are doing is remuxing the file instead of transcoding it which will not loose any video quality.

:D
 
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