Grid effect during movements on things during playback...

[goldentiger]

Anyone have this problem? My recordings and live tv viewing have an issue where anything moving looks kind of like it's being looked at through a moving screen-door, kind of a grid effect. Can this be codec related/interlacing related, or is it just a normal thing? I use a pretty high bitrate using a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 tuner that I just set up today. I am using a nero decoder for the video, and the Hauppauge's decoder for the audio. My deinterlacer is "encoder pass-through". Any ideas?

[sub]

No, it doesnt sounds like a normal thing.

Can you post a screenshot?

[goldentiger]

I will go grab one right now.

[goldentiger]

Here we go... it's in a bitmap form so JPEG compression doesn't mess anything up in the image, about 1mb in size (zip is 500kb). Basically, anything moving looks blocky as though it were seen through a screen door while it moved, not like normal compression artifacts. I've never seen something like it . I zipped it since the max attachment size isn't big enough for the filetype. This is during a slight camera pan with the audience clapping. The main subject of the shot is the contestant, who is lowering his head.

[sub]

Its a little hard to tell from the screen shot, but it looks like in might be interlaced. Does it look like these screenshots to you?http://www.dscaler.org/screenshots/index.htm

I've never see 'encoder pass through' not deinterlace the picture, but its possible your Nero decoder is not doing this. It might be an option with this decoder. I dont have any first hand experience with this decoder so I dont know for sure.

[goldentiger]

Yeah, it looks a lot like that shot while in movement. I will try Dscaler.

[sub]

Yes, dscaler should do the job. Any other MPEG2 decoder (other than Nero) should also fix it.

[goldentiger]

Yep, installed Dscaler5 and things work perfectly now. Thanks again sub!