I recently purchased the mpeg2 plugin but to my dismay, quicktime wont deinterlace my files. Is there a plugin that will help me to do this?

Like with your other post about Front Row asking if there are:

any plugins for quicktime that will give post processing abilities to front row? I am coming from using Vista MCE and ffdshow to sharpen videos and watching the same movies on front row is almost depressing in terms of how 'smooth' and unsharpened the images are.

Please anyone with any info reply and let me know. I'm using perian to decode the different formats btw

and being new to Macs, if you plan to stay with OS X, you should realize that there's usually no video card tweaking, no direct equivalent to MCE and no ffdshow type tweaking. There's no third party post-processing of, say, Apple dvd player output in Leopard.

What is it you're trying to play back with Quicktime?

Trying to playback some high def mpeg2 files I have. They play fine but there is no deinterlacing taking place so it looks like crap :( I have some 720p mpeg2 that plays and looks fine but its a shame that quicktime is so limited. Why charge customers for mpeg2 support when its not being played back properly? I dont get it.

You are right, I m new to Mac and there are many pluses but some really dumb minuses (just like the iphone, no copy and paste).

Anyhow, thanks for responding and if you have anything that can help me let me know.

I recently purchased the mpeg2 plugin but to my dismay, quicktime wont deinterlace my files. Is there a plugin that will help me to do this?

Have you tried VLC? It offers a couple of deinterlacing methods.

Yup, i've tried VLC and its great, but I wanted to be able to watch these files in front row :( Well, technically I can watch em in front row, but they look like ass

prototype, the one other thing I'd share is the people that seem to have the most problems are those who download and share all sorts of BT stuff--and end up with a kitchen sink of codecs and containers--but content that they themselves haven't recorded or transcoded. Those of us who are the most happy tend to start with high def content that we've recorded. I'm probably in the minority but I don't even try to get FR to play it--I don't compress or convert anything to make it "fit"--and the most that I'll ever do is convert some of our high def recordings to iPod format so my wife can watch shows while she works out.

A lot of folks here agree with you, by the way, that Apple hasn't handled Quicktime development and its add-ons as well as they could have.

...the most that I'll ever do is convert some of our high def recordings to iPod format so my wife can watch shows while she works out.Not to go tangential here, but how do watch an iPod and work out at the same time? I can't quite get a picture of that in my mind...:rolleyes: Makes the case for me getting a new iPod, if I could do likewise. Couch-dwelling, video watching does take its toll on one's "bottom" line.

I wondered that as well, but TV sets have been in gyms forever, and my wife loves catching up with TV shows on the iPod that don't make the cut for our bigscreen viewing, working out at the gym and commuting, about half and half in her case. Girls work out differently than us wildrock--we work out by playing hoops or squash or whatever--my wife does the Stairmaster, rides the exercise bikes, does the treadmill--all fairly amenable to video iPods.

prototype, the one other thing I'd share is the people that seem to have the most problems are those who download and share all sorts of BT stuff--and end up with a kitchen sink of codecs and containers--but content that they themselves haven't recorded or transcoded. Those of us who are the most happy tend to start with high def content that we've recorded. I'm probably in the minority but I don't even try to get FR to play it--I don't compress or convert anything to make it "fit"--and the most that I'll ever do is convert some of our high def recordings to iPod format so my wife can watch shows while she works out.

A lot of folks here agree with you, by the way, that Apple hasn't handled Quicktime development and its add-ons as well as they could have.

The material of which i speak is stuff I recorded myself on my PC via firewire from my STB. Apple makes you buy an mpeg2 codec to be able to watch mpeg movies with quicktime and front row but get this DUMB part, NO deinterlacing is provided and any mpeg with ac3 audio will play but you will hear NO audio. How is that mpeg support?

I have found a way to use VLC to transcode the audio to mpa while keeping the video untouched (no reencoding), it takes seconds as well so its pretty nifty I think :)

Anyhow, so with the VLC method I have converted all my stuff but only the progressive material makes sense as the interlaced stuff looks like ass.

I am VERY happy having made the move to Leopard, but these little things really urk me if you know what I mean.

I really prefer front row to media center, mainly because of its simplicity but these kinds of problems really get to me. I know I can transcode my stuff but that means I will have to transcode any interlaced material I record from my STB.

Anyhow, thanks again for your help guys.