Lookin’ good; hey whilst you’re still fiddling with the new version, why not also give it a shot with the ‘CrowdRun’ HD sequence from:
ftp://vqeg.its.bldrdoc.gov/HDTV/SVT_MultiFormat/
Plenty of moving detail there plus some conspicuous bob-shimmer (e.g. the tree tops)
I’ve put up matched (1 second) 1080/50i, 1080/50p and 720/50p HuffYuv-YV12 samples:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12322283..._YV12.avi.html Note: Top Field First
http://rapidshare.com/files/12322665..._YV12.avi.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/12323093...p_YV12.avi.htm
Intrigued by the 'new question' posed in Terka’s last post, I was in the middle of doing a little comparison (purely subjective) of bob-deinterlacing 1080/50i (TempGauss_alpha3, MCBob, YadifMod-NNEDI) versus upsizing 720/50p (NNEDIResize_YV12/LimitedSharpen) to 1080/50p, but if you’re nearly there with alpha4 or a beta, it seems it bit redundant now. Suffice it say that encoding time for TempGaussMC_alpha3 at default (Tr0=2, Tr1=2, Tr2=1, edimode="NNEDI") tipped one hour (for 50 output frames) on my AMD XP2800+, 1GB DDR RAM; that would be more 60 hours for processing 1 minute of 1080/50i footage. Imagine if the source was AVCHD. For HD sources at least, the faster Yadif edi mode (with say Tr0=1, Tr1=1, Tr2=1) would seem a more practical proposition (encoding time 9 min 51 sec). MCBob 0.3u ran at 28 min 47sec and YadifMod-NNEDI 3 min 2 sec (....plus the bob-shimmer). On the upscaling side, NNEDIResize_YV12 plus a simple LanczosResize took 7 min 42 sec; not bad quality but more blurred than the bob-deinterlaced outputs. Hadnt got around to LimitedSharpen (Edit: NNEDIResize_YV12 plus LimitedSharpen (dest_x=1920, dest_y=1080, Smode=1, strength=40) took 8 min 43 sec)
Edit: Ooops, noticed that I'd labelled the uploaded samples ParkRun instead of CrowdRun. Ah well, what's in a name.
Edit2:If anyone’s interested , here are sample outputs (first 5 frames) from the comparative tests:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12369150...tests.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/12362834...tests.zip.html
Since TempGaussMC incorporates MVDegrain (limited to Tr2=1 in these tests), I also tested the other methods with and without MVDegrain1. Maybe folks more experienced with Limited Sharpen, or maybe See-Saw, could improve on the up-scaled outputs.
Edit3: Here also is a small (file size) direct (cropped) comparison of:
Reference 1080 50p
TempGaussMC_alpha3 (221 NNEDI)
MCBob 0.3u
NNEDIResize_YV12 + LimitedSharpen
http://rapidshare.com/files/12370236...izeLS.avi.html
Perhaps not the best example to demonstrate shimmer/flicker supression but it highlights relative preservation of definition.