Pull down, inverse telecine, film mode in WMC

[Paul Anderegg]

I am wondering if anyone knows how Media Center and Windows handles 24p cable TV content within Media Center 60i/60p playback. My PC can spit out 60hz as well as 120hz, and my Intel Graphics card has an option for "film mode", but my TV has a film mode as well. I am wondering how best to get the proper pulldown removal or inversing telecinema motion from my recordings to my screen. I am not sure if MC has it's own corrections, or how I should setup my HTCP. I was thinking that if I ran my Intel iGPU with film mode on at 120hz (24x5=120) that maybe that would work well, but that would be assuming film mode options work on anything over 60Hz.

There are certain channels, like National Geographic and PBS, and lesser but still problematic NBC shows, that really stutter and seem to basically frame skip almost. NGC and NBC are 60i, but local PBS for me is 720p60.

Paul

[jachin99]

I have a nvidea gt1030 GPU and I see an option for inverse telecline in my nvidea control panel. Aside from that your beat bet might be to look into media control and ffdshow but then changing your live TV codecs is a real pain or just impossible.

[Paul Anderegg]

I just installed a GT 1030 this afternoon, it seems to have improved the weird stuttering I was getting with the iGPU. Inverse telecine checked off, and turned on what i think is pull down on my TV settings. The iGPU seems perfectly happy to deal with things that are not interlaced, pulled won and telecined all together.

Paul

[jachin99]

Did you notice any improvements to your parents otherwise? The gt1030 seems to look a little better than a rx580 I had installed before

[Paul Anderegg]

I think that other than "film mode" options, there isn't really anything in an HDMI output that various from device to device, assuming you are using HDMI to send the signal, and not to send a reprocessed signal, such as upscaling or such. I mainly got the GT 1030 because of the artifacts my iGPU has with motion, and the GTX 1050 I had before had two somewhat noisy fans...the GT 1030 is passively cooled.

Paul