I have a home movie made from predominantly 1080i, 29.97 footage off a consumer Sony camcorder that stores the video in .mts files; see MediaInfo screen shot below. One of my targets is a single file for playback on a PC and PS3; after some discussions with the forum H.264 / .mp4 looked to be the best choice. I noticed upon playback of the .mp4 shots with motion took on that interlaced look or whatever it is called where you see lots of lines and blur - see screen shot below. The original clip does not have this issue. I was just doing some trial and error hacking and noticed that MediaInfo was reporting level 4.0. When I switched the export to 4.0 the .mp4 then looked ok.
When one is encoding to .mp4 do they need to pay close attention to the level along the lines of matching resolution, frame rate, etc.? Or is what I'm observing just a PC playback issue and I need not worry other than PC playback? What would you recommend in this case for export format?
Other details:
- H.264 Level 4.1 as well as DNxHD and Matrox I-Frame HD exhibit the issue
- H.264 Level 4.0 is ok
- H.264 Blu-ray multiplexed .m2t with either level 4.0 or 4.1 is ok - I was suprised here
- MPEG2 doesn't have the issue, although I don't think it looks quite as good
- Sony PS3 doesn't have any of these issues although I can't play the DNxHD .mov file
- I did most of my testing in WMP here. I also tried VLC - same results for the .mp4, but VLC has other issues with .m2t, etc.
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