eclPro amp; Alwaysframe=? question, playing, problem, setting, seeing

andy

I got a question about setting the Alwaysframe value in eclPro.ini . Most of the source DVD's I have are PAL interlaced, so I thought setting the value to 0 (using field base encoing), but when I preview the reauthored ones in PowerDVD and set the playing speed to 8x or higher, the video freezes, seeing the quot;interlacedquot; symptoms,along with other kinds of picture degradation; when I resume the speed to 1x the movie plays normaly.I havent got a problem playing the movies on standalone DVD player.So how much difference does field base encoding make on the overall result, comparing to frame mode, and which value would you use?I personally don't think there is any advantage at all to field based encoding as opposed to frame based interlaced encoding.   It's more-or-less just the way it's organized in the stream.

I haven't had much luck with field based encoding, but I didn't really notice much of a quality increase so it's not too bad a lose. First I had a menu problem, there's a thread on that, then I started noticing PowerDVD has the occational glitchy playback. I'm not sure if it's the decoder, or possibly it's deinterlacer. VLC played them back fine, regardless of the deinterlace setting, as did my standalone, though I didn't test extensively on it because of the menu issue.

Btw, are you 100% sure you really have interlaced sources? Most movies are progressive even if they are flagged as interlaced.

@Boulder

On those that I see the interlacing symptoms (seeing the lines during playback), I'm 100% sure, on the others I check the VOB files in DGIndex-preview mode. BTW, the ones I've encoded with Alwaysframe=0 show quite lower overall bitrate in PowerDVD (values are usualy 1000kbps lower than they supposed to be)