[MPlayer-users] Why do rental/bought DVDs look so bad?

[James Rowlett]

Wow, yes adding -vf hqdn3d certainly looks better. Thankyou.
So it is worth me keeping the VOBS I have copied from these DVDs.
Interesting to me, some DVDs look good, and some very bad.
The bad ones seem to be PAL which are reported as progressive. May
be a coincidence. I would have thought progressive ones would look
better than interlaced ones. And, I am not sure I trust the application
which tells me if it is interlaced or not.
Anyway, It seems that they can be made to look reasonable. Interesting that
a hardware DVD player connected to my TV plays them badly, when adding
-vf hqdn3d (under Linux) makes them look pretty acceptable.
Thanks again.


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

>On Saturday, 03 March 2007 at 00:15, James Rowlett wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>I hope you guys don't mind that this is not really a mplayer question,
>>but I don't know where else to ask.
>>There is no point in transcoding using mencoder if source is no good.
>>I live in the UK.
>>All DVD's I have rented recently, the discs look fine (no scratches), 
>>when I play them I can clearly see snow (not white, but scatrerd pixels
>>of an off color). It is very visible to my eye.
>>If I pause the picture, the picture is steady, with a scattering of 
>>'snow' pixels.
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>Try -vf hqdn3d with various parameters to get rid of the noise.
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>Regards,
>R.
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