I am interested others experience of playback quality of 24p media.
I have noticed that the codec used for h.264 decoding seems to have a big impact on the 'smoothness' of playback. I'm not talking about dropped frames but the way motion is resolved.
I have an overclocked Core2Duo, 4GB ram, nVidia GT520, Win7 Pro, Mediaportal running off SSD drives, hooked up to an LG 47LE8900 LCD via HDMI.
Mediaportal is set to dynamic refresh rate control, so switches to the correct rate when a movie is played.
I have the pdvd11 and ffdshow codecs installed at the moment, but have found that I get better playback using the Microsoft DVD/DTV codec, I have tried the pdvd11 and ffdshow codecs and while they decode fine and don't seem to drop frames, it is hard to explain the effect, but it's almost as though the picture isn't as 'solid' when there's motion, as though there's 2 frames overlaid.
I've been happy with the picture quality using any of these codecs, but the Microsoft one definitely seems to resolve motion better.
Has anyones else come across this problem and found out what causes it?
I have noticed that the codec used for h.264 decoding seems to have a big impact on the 'smoothness' of playback. I'm not talking about dropped frames but the way motion is resolved.
I have an overclocked Core2Duo, 4GB ram, nVidia GT520, Win7 Pro, Mediaportal running off SSD drives, hooked up to an LG 47LE8900 LCD via HDMI.
Mediaportal is set to dynamic refresh rate control, so switches to the correct rate when a movie is played.
I have the pdvd11 and ffdshow codecs installed at the moment, but have found that I get better playback using the Microsoft DVD/DTV codec, I have tried the pdvd11 and ffdshow codecs and while they decode fine and don't seem to drop frames, it is hard to explain the effect, but it's almost as though the picture isn't as 'solid' when there's motion, as though there's 2 frames overlaid.
I've been happy with the picture quality using any of these codecs, but the Microsoft one definitely seems to resolve motion better.
Has anyones else come across this problem and found out what causes it?