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I have a bunch of HD movies, but I don't know which ones are 720p and which ones are 1080p. What's the quickest and easiest way to tell? I'd like to add a 720p or 1080p suffix to each file name. Thanks.
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uhhhhhhhhhh, from their resolution?
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So if a movie is 1920x1080, then it is definitely 1080p?
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what did you think 1080p and 720p meant?
720/1080 = the number of horizontal lines.
p = progressive.
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2009-05-05, 18:42
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-05, 18:44 by wildonrio.)
Well I guess I was a little confused.
Does Windowed Mode downgrade 1080p movies to 720p? Because if I play a movie in Windowed Mode that I could have sworn was 1080p, and I hit the O button, it says that it is in 720p. This was what confused me I think.
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that's the screen/window resolution. yes, we scale to whatever resolution the screen/window has.
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Gathering info from everyone who posted here as well as my own personal research, I have discovered a watertight method of determining if a movie is 1080p or 720p. It's not as simple as just looking at the pixel height of a movie since, as noted, sometimes the author will remove the black bars to keep the file size lower. BUT one thing I have noticed, as noted as well, that 1080p movies are always 1920 pixels high, while 720p are always 1280 pixels high.
So here is the method, for whoever runs into the same confusion I had:
1. Start the movie and press "o" on the keyboard.
2. On the second line, it will show the pixel height and width indicated by ####x####.
3. Look at the first number. If it's 1920 then you have a 1080p movie. If it's 1280 then you have a 720p movie.
I have yet to find an exception to this rule. It would be nice if XBMC simply said the quality when you push "o" instead of having to this math, albeit simple math.
It would also be nice if the Library automatically tagged each HD movie with either 1080p or 720p so we quickly know which movies are in HD. Currently I have to switch to file mode and then organize by size to get all the HD movies to the top, as well as personally tag each movie with (1080p) or (720p) at the end of the filename, which also only shows up in file mode.