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<blockquote data-quote="knots4309" data-source="post: 408864" data-attributes="member: 55928">The episodes on Plex are very badly encoded. For one, the aspect ratio is wrong. The image is being squeezed sideways.&nbsp; It should be 720x480 with .9091 or 640x480 with a square pixel aspect ratio. We are getting 654x480, which might be a derivative of PAL 720x576.The next problem is that they have been encoded progressively without any deinterlacing. So we are seeing the interlacing lines on all the motion. The serrated lines around the moving images is what I am referring. This is an absolute no no in professional video editing. In Knots Landing&#039;s case, it was all shot on film so an IVTC (inverse telecine) approach would likely be best to recover the 24p cadence. From what I can tell, interlacing follows the 3:2 pattern (three progressive frames, 2 interlaced frames). However, if that isn&#039;t possible then deinterlacing with a frame blend would be the next best thing, though this would result in jerkier motion, especially on the intro that has the scrolling pictures.Here is to hoping that if Amazon gets the rest of the series to actually buy the episodes, they will be properly encoded with correct aspect ratio and deinterlaced or IVTC for correct progressive playback.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="knots4309, post: 408864, member: 55928"] The episodes on Plex are very badly encoded. For one, the aspect ratio is wrong. The image is being squeezed sideways. It should be 720x480 with .9091 or 640x480 with a square pixel aspect ratio. We are getting 654x480, which might be a derivative of PAL 720x576. The next problem is that they have been encoded progressively without any deinterlacing. So we are seeing the interlacing lines on all the motion. The serrated lines around the moving images is what I am referring. This is an absolute no no in professional video editing. In Knots Landing's case, it was all shot on film so an IVTC (inverse telecine) approach would likely be best to recover the 24p cadence. From what I can tell, interlacing follows the 3:2 pattern (three progressive frames, 2 interlaced frames). However, if that isn't possible then deinterlacing with a frame blend would be the next best thing, though this would result in jerkier motion, especially on the intro that has the scrolling pictures. Here is to hoping that if Amazon gets the rest of the series to actually buy the episodes, they will be properly encoded with correct aspect ratio and deinterlaced or IVTC for correct progressive playback. [/QUOTE]

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