|
|
|
|
|
July 14th, 2006, 09:22 AM
|
#16 | |
|
Trustee
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,214
|
Quote:
Smet, try for yourself on your Liquid system. Create a DVD profile that is progressive and burn a DVD. Now pull the VOB back off the DVD you created and import it into the system. The file properties will ready 29.97 non interlaced. Component connected DVD players will push it out as progressive to flat panel TV's. No DVD authoring program will allow you to create a non standard DVD. Have fun reading this Page S.Noe
__________________
Advanced Avid Liquid Training found Here |
|
|
|
|
July 14th, 2006, 11:57 AM
|
#17 | |
|
Trustee
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 1,719
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
July 14th, 2006, 12:00 PM
|
#18 |
|
Trustee
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 1,719
|
according to that link 60p is not supported.
|
|
|
|
|
July 14th, 2006, 12:54 PM
|
#19 | |
|
Trustee
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,214
|
Quote:
I may just post an ISO so people can dissect it. Anyway, all DVD's are interlaced and it's the DVD player that reinterlaces the image to provide progressive if the TV will accept it.
__________________
Advanced Avid Liquid Training found Here |
|
|
|
|
|
July 16th, 2006, 06:06 PM
|
#20 |
|
Jubal 28
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Wilmington, NC
Posts: 872
|
OK, folks . . .
With enough people on here saying that all DVDs are interlaced and that all material on DVD is 59.94i, I pulled a VOB file directly from a DVD and screen-capped the file properties: http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/9031/propsuf0.jpg This is the data file taken directly from the DVD. It's a 24p file.
__________________
www.wrightsvillebeachstudios.com |
|
|
|
|
July 16th, 2006, 11:37 PM
|
#21 | |
|
Regular Crew
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 25
|
Quote:
First, MPEG audio can't be the only audio on an NTSC DVD, so this doesn't look like a compliant NTSC DVD in the first place. See http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.6 . Also, progressive_sequence isn't allowed either (http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.4), so I think you maybe are getting misled by your authoring or analysis tools. Could you please send me a slice of the VOB file (2 megabytes is fine) so I can take a look at the sequence header? keithw@mit.edu. I would appreciate it. Is this from a major studio or something you made? As I said before, it's not that all material on a DVD is interlaced. It's that the MPEG sequence header indicates an interlaced sequence with a frame rate of 29.97 Hz. If you don't know what this means, then we probably are not disagreeing. As I said in my post, those 60 fields can be coded with 24 progressive frames (and the "repeat flags"), 30 progressive frames, 30 interlaced frames, etc. The DVD FAQ link (section 3.4) explains this pretty well, I think. None of this should be foreign, though -- it is exactly what the JVC HD100 does. That is, when you have the JVC in 24p mode or 30p mode, it produces an MPEG-2 progressive sequence at a frame-rate of 59.94 Hz, with the "repeat flags" set to tell the decoder how to perform the pulldown. The subject of how a "24p" recording from the HD100 can be stored within a 60p MPEG-2 file has been discussed to death on this forum! :-) Also, just to be clear, the single-step feature on a DVD is not indicative of the output of the MPEG decoding process. It probably just steps ahead by one coded MPEG picture. But in MPEG, by use of the "repeat flags," a coded picture can last for 1 field, 2 fields, 3 fields, etc. This is how the 3:2 pulldown is indicated by the encoder without having to code redundant information. Just because you don't see that when single-stepping doesn't mean it isn't there! -Keith Last edited by Keith Winstein; July 17th, 2006 at 12:30 AM. |
|
|
|
|
|
July 17th, 2006, 08:43 AM
|
#22 |
|
Jubal 28
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Wilmington, NC
Posts: 872
|
If it wasn't compliant . . . it wouldn't play.
Or, alternatively, if it's not compliant, yet it still plays (which it does), then you can do what I say you can do, right? But that's not the case. It's compliant. I think you're getting so caught up in the technical minutiae that you've completely lost the forest for the trees in what I'm saying. (I mean, seriously -- my software's LYING to me? Would Occam's Razor really lead you to that conclusion?)
__________________
www.wrightsvillebeachstudios.com |
|
|
|
|
July 17th, 2006, 08:48 AM
|
#23 |
|
Regular Crew
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Naples FLA
Posts: 89
|
...In the red corner, wearing red trunks with white trim...
|
|
|
|
|
July 17th, 2006, 01:45 PM
|
#24 |
|
Regular Crew
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 25
|
David,
I think this subject (of "repeat flags" and how 24 coded progressive frames can be stored inside a 29.97 Hz interlaced MPEG-2 sequence) has already been talked to death on this forum, and I'm sorry we didn't successfully communicate. It's not that your software is lying to you; it's that "24p" can mean two different things, as I struggled to explain above and repeatedly. The links I gave to the DVD FAQ explain, far better than I can, the questions of compliance (and whether you can have only MPEG audio on an NTSC DVD) with a confidential specification neither of us has read. If you really want to continue this, the best way would be for you to name ANY commercial NTSC DVD release that you believe to be a true 24p MPEG-2 video with no 3:2 cadence, and I will go out and buy it and look at the MPEG. Alternately, you're still welcome to e-mail me the VOB file ripped from the DVD you made, or post it on the Web and send us the URL. -Keith |
|
|
|
|
July 17th, 2006, 02:54 PM
|
#25 | |
|
Wrangler
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Posts: 3,637
|
Quote:
I know where you are coming from and the DVD FAQ is a great resource (even though some of the stuff is a little out of date.) However, when I export a NTSC-DV 23.98fps file from FCP (not a 24P project with 3:2 pulldown in a 29.97 file, but true 24P) and then encode it with compressor as 23.98fps, the file I get is a 23.98fps MPEG2. This is how I've authored my DVDs for the past three years and as far as I can tell 23.98 is a valid Mpeg2 frame rate. When I play the DVDs I create in a non-progressive DVD player connected to a NTSC monitor, the DVD player adds the 3:2 pulldown for me. Yes, most "progressive" DVD players have the ability to detect 24P within a 3:2 pulldown 29.97 mpeg2 and ignore the pulldown fields, but I'm quite certain that is not what's happening here. If it were, then in my scenario Compressor would have to add the pulldown frames. I don't think it does. I really want to find the truth of the matter. Attached is one chapter I ripped and checked "info" with Quicktime 7.1
__________________
Tim Dashwood |
|
|
|
|
|
July 17th, 2006, 04:25 PM
|
#26 |
|
Regular Crew
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 25
|
Hi Tim,
I have great respect for your cinematography, and I very much appreciate your stewardship of the HD100 forum, so just wanted to say thank you. In this case, it looks like Quicktime has been making things too "nice" and obscuring the details of the MPEG-2 files. I agree with you that 23.98 fps progressive sequences are legal in MPEG-2 (in fact, they're legal on ATSC broadcasts, even though nobody uses them). But everything we know about the confidential DVD specification suggests that they're not legal on DVDs. I went and got "Fight Club" out from Blockbuster, and it, too, is a 29.97 Hz interlaced MPEG-2 movie. Fox/deluxe have economically only used 24 coded pictures per second to make those 59.94 fields, and they've used the "repeat flags" to signal to the MPEG decoder that some pictures should last for 3 fields, and some should last for 2 fields. So a smart DVD player or editing tool can certainly extract the original 24 coded pictures, and in that sense it is a "24p" MPEG-2 file (just like the JVC HD100 makes). In another sense, a formal MPEG-2 decoder will produce 59.94 interlaced fields per second, and in that sense it's a "60i" MPEG-2 file. A consumer "progressive-scan" DVD player will produce 59.94 progressive frames per second, retaining the 3:2 cadence but not the interlacing. Here's the output of running mpeg2dec -v on the beginning of chapter 32 of "Fight Club". The "SEQUENCE" line tells us the resolution of the luma and chroma (720x480 and 360x240, since it's 4:2:0) and the frame-rate (29.97). If this were a progressive sequence, it would say "PROG" in the sequence header. In the "PICTURE" lines, the number after "fields" tells us how many fields the picture is supposed to be repeated for. Remember that the pictures are sent out-of-order -- you can look at the "time_ref" field to see the position of the frame in display order. And, of course, the sequence is coded entirely with progressive pictures even though it's an interlaced sequence. I'm curious what Quicktime has to say about this file. I posted the beginning (after decrypting it) at http://web.mit.edu/keithw/www/fight_club.mpeg2ps if you want to run it through your tools. Regards, Keith a8 SEQUENCE MPEG2 MP@ML 720x480 chroma 360x240 fps 29.97 maxBps 1225000 vbv 229376 picture 720x480 display 720x480 pixel 32x27 113 GOP DROP CLOSED 2:56:34:27 127 PICTURE I PROG fields 3 TFF pts 013bcdd9 dts 013bc21e time_ref 0 offset 0/0 0/0 0/0 16127 SLICE 1613f PICTURE P PROG fields 2 TFF time_ref 3 offset 0/0 0/0 2225f SLICE 22277 PICTURE B PROG fields 2 time_ref 1 offset 0/0 0/0 273bf SLICE 273d7 PICTURE B PROG fields 3 time_ref 2 offset 0/0 0/0 0/0 2c25f SLICE 2c277 PICTURE P PROG fields 3 time_ref 6 offset 0/0 0/0 0/0 324db SLICE 324f3 PICTURE B PROG fields 3 TFF time_ref 4 offset 0/0 0/0 0/0 377d3 SLICE 377eb PICTURE B PROG fields 2 time_ref 5 offset 0/0 0/0 3caf7 SLICE 3cb0f PICTURE P PROG fields 2 time_ref 9 offset 0/0 0/0 43067 SLICE 4307f PICTURE B PROG fields 2 TFF time_ref 7 offset 0/0 0/0 48adf SLICE 48af7 PICTURE B PROG fields 3 TFF time_ref 8 offset 0/0 0/0 0/0 4e847 SLICE 4e85f PICTURE P PROG fields 3 time_ref 10 offset 0/0 0/0 0/0 5abfb SLICE 5ac13 PICTURE P PROG fields 2 TFF time_ref 11 offset 0/0 0/0 66123 SLICE |
|
|
|
|
July 17th, 2006, 08:23 PM
|
#27 | |
|
Wrangler
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Posts: 3,637
|
Quote:
So I'm still a little confused from your explanation. My simple question is: Is the original file physically 23.98fps and your decoder is adding the 3:2 pulldown while it plays, or are all Mpeg2 files encoded for NTSC DVD always 29.97fps, regardless of flags? Curiously, when I look at a 720P24 HD100 m2t in Mpegstreamclip it only displays the 24 flagged frames when stepping through frame-by-frame (you can tell by the TC readout,) but the frame rate still shows 59.94 when I look at the stream info. When I looked at your mpeg2 from Fight Club it didn't skip any frames and showed 23.98, which once again leads me to believe that the physical mpeg2 has 23.98 frames, and the decoder adds 3:2 pulldown when necessary. Agree? Disagree?
__________________
Tim Dashwood |
|
|
|
|
|
July 17th, 2006, 09:04 PM
|
#28 | |
|
Regular Crew
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 25
|
Quote:
(1) An MPEG-2 sequence header telling the decoder that the output is 59.94 interlaced fields per second. (2) A sequence of 24 progressive pictures per second (the same pictures that were recorded on the film and shown in theaters). (3) For each picture in the file, a number ("2" or "3", aka the "repeat flags") instructing the MPEG decoder (the DVD player) for how many fields the picture should last. For example, "2" for the first picture, then "3" for the second picture, etc. A normal DVD player will read the file, decode the 24 progressive pictures per second, and then obey the number in the MPEG-2 file that tells us how many fields to repeat each picture. So, the DVD player *is* the one adding in the pulldown, but it's not doing so "automatically" -- it's doing so because the MPEG-2 file instructs it on exactly how many fields it's supposed to repeat each picture, and it's just doing what the MPEG decoding process requires. So, if you're asking how many separate pictures were actually included per second, the answer is 24. If you're asking what the MPEG-2 file produces when decoded, the answer is 60 interlaced fields per second. The "pulldown" and 3:2 cadence *are* physically on the DVD, but they're not in #2 (above), they're in #3 (the numbers that tell the DVD player how many times to repeat each picture). I hope this clears it up... does it? As for Mpegstreamclip, I agree that those results seem inconsistent. I don't know why it gives 23.98 for the Fight Club MPEG-2, but 59.94 for the JVC's MPEG-2. It seems like maybe Mpegstreamclip is too smart for its own good (trying to detect whether it's a "24-within-60" file) and ends up giving confusing results? Not sure, sorry. Last edited by Keith Winstein; July 17th, 2006 at 10:14 PM. |
|
|
|
|
|
August 11th, 2006, 06:03 AM
|
#29 |
|
Regular Crew
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Sitka Alaska
Posts: 128
|
HI David Jamerson
Have you worked out a work flow for starting wit 25iPal, and creating a 24p dvd in Vegas? Can US dvd players play a 24p pal dvd Will you have to just take the 25i slow it down to 24p, and then standards convert? Are there any options to up convert the pal to a HD level using software ( so you don't loose the 100 extra lines of vert res) Sharyn |
|
|
|
 |
| ||||||
|
||||||
|
|
