About "evil frames" again

[Patrick]

Interlaced frame mode is "normal".

Ok, we've got one more important bit of information...

Now what??!!!

mad99, getting information from you is like pulling teeth! I appreciate that you've volunteered to have a look at a clip to see what you can do, but this shouldn't be necessary. All we need to know is what steps you actually follow when you are looking at a clip in VirtualDub (to find evil frames). Come on now, out with it!

[Marijn]

mits,

if you're trying to find the evil frames, in you're files, maybe you can try 'videoscope' from Dynapel (yes, they make MotionPerfect as well). It will indicate where in you're file there is something wrong. It's free to use and download.

Marijn

[mad99]

Sorry, I don't want to make you loosing your teeth. But there isn't anything I do than the steps I told you before... While viewing the file, there are no more "evil frames". I think Virtual Dub is filtering them...

Of course, from time to time I have avi's which don't work at all, but then they are completely unwatchable...

If you like, we can try to use ICQ for a more direct conversation (my ICQ# is: 95800489)

Right now, I am online, local time is 14:16 (GMT+1)

[Patrick]

mad99, I've never used ICQ, so you're stuck dealing with me here.

I'm looking for an efficient method of finding the evil frames so that I can use the blank title overlay trick to correct the A/B field inversion problem. From what you just said, do I understand correctly that you simply use VirtualDub to view your videos? If that's the case, then I was mistaken to be thinking that you use VirtualDub to remove (or locate) the evil frames.

[Marijn]

Patrick,

are these evil frames reported as dropped frames? Or can a 'zero frame dropped' file also have these frames? If not, have you tried recording with AVI-IO, it has a feature where it fills dropped frames with a copy of the frame before.

Maybe this helps...

[mad99]

PATRICK:

I convert my AVI's to DivX ;-) to put them on CD. I haven't tried to put them on video tape, if you talking about this. But in the converted AVI's I don't have any defective frames...

I hope I didn't confuse you guys here too much. ;-)

[Patrick]

Marijn, when I capture using MSP5.2 I do not normally get any dropped frames reported. However, during playback I do see the occasional jump, especially during a pan, which indicates to me that dropped frames have indeed occurred. As I stated earlier though, dropped frames I can live with. Evil frames are much worse because they screw up the rest of the playback on the TV output.

To answer your question (which was a good one!), evil frames are NOT reported as dropped frames. They are much too sneaky...

mad99, as far as I know the problem with evil frames only involves playback through the TV output. I think you and I have been discussing different things. Thanks anyway.