Quality Test - Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PS2)

2014-08-04 02:10:28 am

Final Encode
Windows 7
I-O Data GV-USB 2
Amarec
640x480
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time PS2
NTSC
Video produced with yua

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SO3 Final Encode Yua_HQ.mp4

TheThrillness

2014-08-04 03:44:22 am

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I'm not personally a fan of cropping to get a 5:4 ratio but it's up to you I guess.

I frame advanced through the video and something looks weird (although not anything serious really). The static text and even the avatars seems to move up and down on each frame (almost as if the mouths of them are talking). I looked at the old run on here and that looks fine. Everything is solid and stays in place. It did occur to me that maybe the GV-USB2 is actually BFF but that is ridiculously rare. Just for curiosity could you tell me what codec you used and also post an encode of the same area with BFF selected?

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2014-08-04 01:51:30 pm

I see what you're talking about. I had aspect ratio: standard selected which forced 4:3. I didn't choose anything since it captures at 720x480 hoping that would help. I did another TFF encode and it does the same thing. It almost looks like when you go frame by frame the character portraits are opening and closing their mouths. On the interlaced original recording it doesn't look like this at all.

I did a BFF encode and the image is stuttering all over the place.

After messing around a bit more I selected F2 for framerate. I think that fixed it but I'm not 100% sure. Here's the video with F2 selected and also no aspect ratio selected. Would it be preferred that I still choose standard aspect ratio?
As for cropping, when I don't crop the very bottom of the video when viewed in full screen has this weird red dotted line.

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SO3 Final Encode Yua F2 HQ.mp4

Pitted

2014-08-04 02:42:28 pm

I apologize for another post. I couldn't figure out how to attach additional files with an edit.

I don't think F2 is the solution. It severely destroys the quality of text. Here is another video of a different part that's text heavy so you can see what I mean. Attachment "Menuing F1_HQ.mp4" is the same settings as my original post. The quality is good but it flickers up and down when you go frame by frame. Attachment "Menuing F2_HQ.mp4" is the same video but with F2. The text becomes really blurry. As soon as I get a chance I'll just upload a small raw video and maybe someone can see if I did something wrong with my recording.

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Menuing F1_HQ.mp4

Menuing F2_HQ.mp4

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nate: 2014-08-04 02:55:50 pm

2014-08-04 02:54:47 pm

it's probably yua's d1 deinterlacer. worst results on thin horizontal lines (as in text). if you upload the original i can confirm it. no way around it except to use a different deinterlacer such as mvbob which is included with anri-chan. if you haven't used it, anri is like a more primitive (mostly non-graphical), windows-only version of yua.

edit: to clarify though, what you attached in the first post is totally acceptable for sda. at least imo you only really notice the interlacing flicker when you go frame by frame.

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2014-08-04 03:52:29 pm

Final Encode
Windows 7
I-O Data GV-USB 2
Amarec
640x480
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time PS2
NTSC
Videos produced with anri-chan

Alright here's a couple different parts (high motion action part and heavy text menu part) using Anri chan. It doesn't do the flickering thing nearly as severely but when looking frame by frame it's still there a little bit. Especially in the second video when looking at the health bars. D1, F1, 3D, Interlaced, Top Field First, 4/3 ratio.

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SO3 Final Encode 2 Anri_HQ.mp4

SO3 Final Encode Anri_HQ.mp4

nate

2014-08-04 05:03:50 pm

yeah, that looks better.

TheThrillness

2014-08-04 10:19:25 pm

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Yeah sorry for my lack of rereading in the challenges section of yua before I posted. It's a shame QTGMC is such a pain. Maybe it becomes easier in the future.