2007-01-15, 12:02
ultrabrutal Wrote:3. Not sure if this is a bug but I noticed that the image is very jacked. Lines do not appear straight. Considering resolution being equal to DVD (704x576) on a 768 line resolution display they should appear similar. Is something else used for rendering or what's going on?I bet the video is interlaced (480i NTSC, 576i PAL, or 1080i HDTV), if you have a progressive-scan television (480p or 720p) then try enable deinterlace bob or weave under interlaced handling XBMC OSD video settings while playing the video, or if you have a interlace television (480i NTSC, 576i PAL, or 1080i HDTV) then try enable "Sync Odd" or "Sync Even" under interlaced handling XBMC OSD video settings (test both to see which looks best). Note that XBMC's Auto-Select option for interlaced handling does not work that well last I checked so probebely not a good idea to even try that(?)
ultrabrutal Wrote:Ok tested streaming via DreamView on PC.DreamView on PC probebely have a built-in interlaced handling with a deinterlace filter that either auto-detects interlaced video and activates itself when needed(?), or it is active all the time(?) and that is why you do not see this 'issue' on your PC in that program. Note though that having a deinterlace filter (like bob or weave) activated on progressive video will decrease the precieved video quality, which is why it should only be active when needed.
3. Image looks much much better here than via XBMC. Lines are straights and not jacked
ultrabrutal Wrote:I think that the 16:9 signaling is embedded in the stream somewhere, mplayer or whatever is used could look at this for every frame and if it changes call an event handler which then renders frame at correct aspect or changes resolutionhmm, I guess MPlayer and the DVDPlayer cores should do that to do that but I don't think they already do, by design, so that is probebebly falls under feature request/suggestion?