Progressive-mode DVD player - Help please!

asafb wrote on 2/25/2002, 8:18 PM

Dear folks:

Okay let me get this straight

You're telling me if encode in mainconcept mpeg2 for dvd, but select PROGRESSIVE not interlaced, then buy a PROGRESSIVE-video-output dvd player, the quality will be much better than interlaced?

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pelvis wrote on 2/25/2002, 10:32 PM

"You're telling me if [I] encode in mainconcept mpeg2 for dvd, but select PROGRESSIVE not interlaced, then buy a PROGRESSIVE-video-output dvd player, the quality will be much better than interlaced?"

where did you read this?

MHampton wrote on 2/26/2002, 7:42 AM

Here's my experience with encoding in PROGRESSIVE mode and trying to play on a PROGRESSIVE dvd player.

I bought the Toshiba 3750 progressive DVD Player. I had tested it with DVD-R and DVD-RW media and they both worked. Then, when I got home, I tried it, and it stuttered when trying to play the DVD I made in my Pioneer A03 burner. I began trying different setting in TMPEGENC (latest version) and finally found that if I encoded the video in INTERLACED mode, the player would play it just fine.

Now, that said. My Pioneer 525 NON-PROGRESSIVE player didn't seem to care one way or the other. It just played either disc just fine.

I had also tried the JVC ...65GD progressive player and it wouldn't even recogize the DVD-RW disc, so I went back to the toshiba.

Bottom line, even though I have a progressive scan camera, and a progressive scan dvd player, and a digital tv that supports progressive scan modes, I make my dvds in interlaced mode. I'm sure something ain't right somewhere. :)

Michael