DV500 MPEG2 support issue

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:44 am

OK, strange to see me asking a question here in the forum eh?

How many people here have a DV500 and have tried using the MP2 import in the v4.0 drivers with real DVD source? I talked to Quu and he said with the new drivers should be able to do the same thing the DC1000/2000 do, just not in realtime.
I ran the ValidTC program on a demuxed M2V stream to add the timecode, and then I opened the file in Premiere. While I could scan around the file, there were bad frames every 5 frames or so where the macroblocks were totally visible and messed up and I don't know why.
Has anyone done this successfully? If so what did you do? Otherwise I'll just stick to AVISynth, but the seek times on the pinnacle plugin were great but the video quality in general was lacking but I suspect it has to do with the same thing that's causing the screwed up frames.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 7:32 am

Yep it's time to kill yourself ^_^:

That sounds like a bitch >_<. I'd try to help if only I had a DV500, er wait your DV500 is malfunctioning and you should send it to me.....yeahhhhh send it to klinky....

~klinky

Quu · Post by **Quu** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 11:43 am

hum.... I will have to look at this when i get my machine back...

I know that on the dc1000 there was not wierd frames...

the m2v file... was it a 19.97 mpeg-2 or was it a progressive one that had the pulldown flag enabled?

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 2:04 pm

DVD2AVI reported it as 80% NTSC so I would just say it's almost definately a 29.97fps stream. No pulldown flags as far as I can tell.

Sinime · Post by **Sinime** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 10:14 pm

Sorry I can't help, but I have a DC1000 and have the same problem. I finally started using AVISynth to get it into premiere and the export clipped frames to a pinnacle AVI. On second thought maybe this will help.