"Jagged flicker" in playback. Interlacing?

browncoat_gater · Post by **browncoat_gater** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:56 pm

I am in dire need of help here. I have tried everything I know of to get rid of this problem (which, admittedly, isn't a whole lot) and nothing is working. I've ripped straight from DVD, indexed with DGIndex and opened in VDM (through an avs file, but the problem is there even if I open just the vob) and I have these jagged, flickery lines going through my footage. If I then export as an avi in VDM and play in VLC they are present there too. It's not something that happens continuously, but it's really obnoxious when it does. It is NOT present on the DVD itself or the .vob file just after ripping when played through VLC . It also doesn't appear to be present when I play the exported avi file in WMP.

I was told elsewhere that it was an interlacing issue. Doesn't look like interlacing to me, but, that person knows a lot more than me so that's what I'm going with. I've tried every method to deinterlace that I can find and it's still there. My question is if anyone has encountered this before and, if so, do you know how to get rid of it.

I'm unable to take a screencap as the problem doesn't stick around when I advance frame by frame, but I uploaded a small avi (682 kb) that shows what I'm talking about here.

It is LA, but I figure this is the best place to try to get help. I'll be eternally grateful if anyone can help with this.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:20 pm

Hmm, are you sure it's not just a hardware issue? I'm kind of thinking it might just be video tearing because your computer can't keep up.

I played the file in VLC on my Mac and it played perfectly. I took it over to my PC, and it started tearing quite a bit in MPC. And there was some very minor tearing in VLC. So I think it's hardware related. (My PC has lower specs than my Mac.)

Of course, the XviD format probably doesn't help it any. Does it do the same thing in every format?

browncoat_gater · Post by **browncoat_gater** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:54 pm

Hmmm I thought I'd ruled that out by playing in on several computers. Maybe all of our computers blow. This one's fairly new (like...six months), but it IS a cheap laptop. Heh. I'll try it out later on today on my brother's far superior one. That'd be great if that was the issue (well, except for where my computer sucks...)

I just know I've seen vids with much better quality than anything I can produce and they play fine on all of my computers...

And yeah, it happens in all kinds of formats. wmv, mpg, huffy avi... I just compressed with xvid to make it smaller for you guys. =)

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:07 pm

I played it on my 5 year old laptop in MPC and had no problems at all. I watched the clip several times and even went frame-by-frame and didn't see any obvious flaw.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:14 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:I played it on my 5 year old laptop in MPC and had no problems at all. I watched the clip several times and even went frame-by-frame and didn't see any obvious flaw.

Then perhaps a video driver issue?

I dunno. I just know it isn't inherent to the file.

browncoat_gater · Post by **browncoat_gater** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:30 pm

Thank you SO much for taking the time to do that guys.

I had no trouble in MPC either. I'll try updating my drivers and see if that fixes the problem in VLC and VDM. Thanks!