Running Man Ep 102 Eng Sub 720p Or 1080i
Phyllis Sterlin
Lately I've been working on getting migrated from WMC to Emby for live TV. WMC worked wonderfully for me but now that Win 7 is done, MS has quit providing guide services. My tuner is an HDHR Prime with a cablecard installed.
I've done a few hours of digging through the forums here trying to find a tweak to live TV transcoding that wil make 1080i deinterlacing look decent. Currently when transcoding, 1080i channels get transcoded to 1080p 29.97 which halves the temporal resolution making motion look jerky. 720p channels get transcoded to 59.94 which preserves fluid motion.
I recall reading that config files can be tweaked to achieve this. What do I need to add or change in the encoding.xml file (or elsewhere) to get ffmpeg to output a 1080p 59.94 stream? I'm trying to get this to stream to a Chromecast 3, which supports 1080p60.
Let's make one thing clear, my intention with this post was not to point out things WMC can do that Emby can't. If it came off like that, I apologize. My posts were only to ask if field rate deinterlacing was currently possible for transcoding. Emby does so many things better than WMC that I really want it to work out for me. I know WMC didn't ever support Chromecast. I currently run my WMC machine headless, using WMC extenders like the Ceton Echo, Xbox 360 or Linksys box at my displays. My goal is to have Emby replace WMC in this situation with equal video performance.
Perhaps the best question to ask at this point is, which client devices support direct-play MPEG2 1080i (so the display does the deinterlacing)? I've found some data that says the Amazon Fire Stick 4K can do this after a firmware update last summer.
The deinterlace performace looks good on both hardware and software encoding, but the output is still 1080p 29.97. I'm looking for a 1080p 59.94 output that will look as if I was running a 1080i source to my TV, letting it do the deinterlacing.
Can I chime in here? I'd really, really like to have Emby be able to play 1080i videos. We download sports events from Europe players and sometimes get 1080i videos. I've learned how to reencode them with Handbrake to play on our system, but it's a hassle. 1080i videos play fine on my laptop with VLC but not on Emby.
My system: I run Emby Server on a Mac Mini and play NAS-stored videos with an AppleTV or maybe a Roku device. My main NAS is a Western Digital My Cloud EX2 Ultra, for which there's no available Emby server app - that would be great too!
Hi to you, Luke. Thank you for your reply. Unless something has changed in the past 2 days, Emby cannot play 1080i. I found that I can make playable files by using Handbrake set to the Decomb deinterlace setting to convert 1080i to 720p, keeping the original frame rate. -Dee
There are two ways the video can be deinterlaced. The server can do it, or the player (app) can do it. The best option is the player does it, then it won't be transcoded by the server. So in your case we're talking about Apple TV and Roku. I don't use either of those, but I believe both should be able to achieve this. When you play these videos, what exactly, happens?
The AppleTV app can't play the 1080i video because its "format is not compatible with Apple TV". We've started using our AppleTV devices instead of Roku because of the AppleTV+ content and because its MotoGP app will load on the "no spoiler" view on the AppleTV and the Roku's MotoGP defaults to the News; eg, it gtells you who won the race!
Thank you again! This solves the problem for me. We'll just watch Emby on the Roku device because it has the better Emby app. Or is it the device not the app? The AppleTV says *it* can't play the video... maybe AppleTV is the problem, not the Emby app. In either case, problem solved! Thank you!
Hi Luke. Turns out that the Emby app on my Roku Ultra plays the 1080i (50 fps) file just fine. Its the app on my 4th generation Apple TV or, rather, the device itself. The error I get is "format is not compatible with Apple TV", so I think it's a device hardware/firmware deficiency on the Apple TV device, not the Emby app, that is unable to deinterlace 1080i files. The Apple TV is able to play the re-encoded 1080i 50 fps file 720p at its original frame rate, so it's not the frame rate that's the problem. I also tried running a 1080i video on the Apple TV with the PLEX app. PLEX didn't give me an error message, just a rotating "I'm trying" wheel and never loaded it.
Emby can handle interlaced video perfectly fine on all the apps I have (no apple however) and if the app can't de-interlace properly will have the server do it.
So chances are it's a client issue/setting but we don't know this yet.
Already did that, I thought. What else do you need? I found 1080i plays great on VLC and Roku's Emby app but won't play on the AppleTV's Emby app. It's an AppleTV limitation, I'm sure, not its Emby app. My media server is a Western Digital EX2 Ultra, which I've found has limited file transcoding ability. So the problems seem to be the Apple TV and the WD server. Roku and VLC rock!
Same thing here. I got mine set up over the weekend, and actually watched some NASCAR (Gasp!) to see how it handled motion. I was a bit disappointed. It got me thinking about running some coax straight to the tv for watching similar events.
(No offense to NASCAR fans. I really did like that road course.)
On display settings > Advanced on Windows itself, I found the refresh rate was 60hz interlaced. I changed to 60hz , display is now at 1080p but it's clearly not being able to display at 60fps, as the below site shows.
Still scratching my head over this.
Ok, I've found out why I wasn't able to output at 60fps. I was using HDMI scaling at 4%. But without it the screen is larger than my display and I lose borders.
And no, there's no option to turn off overscan on this TV, and I never needed it on any other device running at 1080p.
That's a freaking nightmare, Jesus Christ.
Then this episodes are recognized by Sonarr as SD. I configured this series to download any quality then episodes are downloaded but fail import because Sonarr expect SD but episode its recognized as 1080p.
Release name: Presunto culpable 1x01 Vrtigo [HDTV 1080i AVC MP2 2.0 Sub][GrupoHDS] [spanish]
File name: Presunto culpable 1x01 Vertigo [HDTV 1080i AVC MP2 2.0 Sub][GrupoHDS].mkv
Release name: Presunto culpable 1x02 Culpabilidad [HDTV 1080i AVC MP2 2.0 Sub][GrupoHDS] [spanish]
File name: Presunto culpable 1x02 Culpabilidad [HDTV 1080i AVC MP2 2.0 Sub][GrupoHDS].mkv
I think the problem could be down to the fact the series has had several different iterations, some was broadcast online only and some with a different name; senior vs junior. Therefore depending how you count the latest season is 7 or 11.
I noticed that many PS2 games that don't support Progressive Scan or 480p resolution, don't look too hot on the PS3. In order to play them on the PS3, they need to be upscaled and smoothed. Which gives them a blurry look. However, PS2 games that do support progressive scan and can run at 480p, look amazing on the PS3.
Now, over at the NeoGaf forums, there is a thread that has become very famous because it shows you how good Wii games would look in HD (mostly in 720p). And since most Wii games support Progressive Scan and run at 480p, it is very likely that when they get to run on the Wii U, that they will look better than ever. Amazing, even. But only if Nintendo makes it possible.
Do you think its possible? And if that's possible, will you upgrade to the Wii U just to play Wii games like Super Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros. Brawl, Goldeneye, Xenoblade (PAL only), Metroid Prime 3, etc. in HD?
I honestly have no idea what the hell you're talking about then, but it sounds like it would require work, and if they're not gonna go through the tiny effort to upscale, why do you think they'd go through more work to do what you're talking about?
Check these images from PS2 games that can run in 480p on the PS3. Compare how the games look with upscaled graphics and then running at 480p. The icons and other HUD stuff look crystal clear running at 480p.
Ah, my bad. Well, what Mickeymac says: if it requires any effort - which it does - Nintendo won't do it. (If it's so easy, why don't they do it on emulators like Dolphin btw? Icons always look messed up on that)
So for some reason on a pi4 kodi isn't giving me the ability to set the display to 1080i. The display I'm using is really flaky and doesn't like any resolutions other than 480p or 1080i - if I set it to 720p the colours go all wrong (it seems to be a hardware issue with the display, I've tried everything with the pi's config.txt and nothing seems to make a difference)
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