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by bobrosswins
Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes
Replies: 6
Views: 4388

Re: Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes

In order to satisfy my own curiosity, I used ffmpeg to extract the mpeg2 video stream to a ts container for both the original MKV and a copy where I changed the header to "interlaced." I then compared SHA-256 hashes of the two ts files and they were identical. So it appears that changing h...
by bobrosswins
Mon Feb 06, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes
Replies: 6
Views: 4388

Re: Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes

I really went down the rabbit hole on this one. Learned about detelecining vs deinterlacing. The core issue for me is Plex/mpv isn't deinterlacing/detelecining content that should be because the MKV headers are either missing a Scan Type or it's set to Progressive with 2:3 pulldown. If I change the ...
by bobrosswins
Fri Jan 27, 2023 4:03 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes
Replies: 6
Views: 4388

Re: Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes

Thanks! For my own edification how can I locate the header field names that mkvpropedit will take? Man page doesn't list.
by bobrosswins
Fri Jan 27, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes
Replies: 6
Views: 4388

Star Trek TNG DVDs - Scan Type is missing from certain episodes

I am ripping an old collection of Star Trek The Next Generation DVDs. I noticed that certain episodes were displaying combing artifacts and so I checked Mediainfo. On most episodes the scan type is as follows: Scan type : Interlaced Scan type, store method : Separated fields (2 fields per block) Sca...