This will be a short post on my continuing EyeTV 2 HD content to h.264 for the Apple TV. Either the Apple TV was using a cached version of the CSI episode I'm testing or moving the transcoding to multi-pass did not help one bit. The character and object edging is simply horrible. It is definitely not worthy of displaying on an HDTV (or even EDTV, for that matter). I just decided to start over with a batch of episodes of CSI and Numbers and see what type of transcoding actually looks good. What is confusing me at this point is the fact that I have a transcoded version of X-Men 3 encoded in h.264 at only 1000kbps (with multi-pass) from Handbrake and it looks much, much better than the HDTV-to-h.264 content. I'm not sure what the reason could be and why there is such a markable difference between the two. Unfortunately, if I want to really test, I need hours and hours (if not, days) to re-transcode material for testing. We'll see where it takes me now. If anyone has advice, please drop me an email.
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OK, from my experience with video codecs so far, I've been encoding my DVDs to H.264 using handbrake. I've noticed that if you de-interlace the video, the jaggies should go away. Try that. Some DVDs had more jaggies on high motion scenes then others did... I'm sure that was just the quality of the studio's equipment or settings. I should say MOST DVDs i own do not need the de-interlace turned on. But some def do. And if its network TV, and its in 1080i or 480i then they prob didn't use great equipment. Let me know.
Posted by JK | April 10, 2007 6:13 AM
Posted on April 10, 2007 06:13