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Neil Jones
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Not sure if this is something that this particular forum can help with but I figure what the hell.
I've gone down the route of digitising all my DVDs and Blu-Rays recently and I've been using Handbrake (or MakeMKV where necessary and Handbrake later) to do the ripping and get it into a compressed format that doesn't take up an obscene amount of room on my NAS drive, this is fed to Kodi through a Raspberry Pi that I can control from Kore, an Android App that acts as a Kodi remote control.
However I have noticed there appears to be a curious filmic effect that happens on most of the ripped TV material that doesn't appear on the ripped movies when I play back. This effect doesn't occur on the original DVDs and it doesn't matter what settings I use in Handbrake to encode, it still manifests on playback regardless of whether I use my Pi or a Firestick or fiddle with the Kodi settings or change the display settings on the TV (I will admit this is 10 years old already). If I play the files on my laptop I can still see the filmic effect but its nowhere near as bad on the laptop screen as the TV makes out.
The only common cause seems to be sitcoms and TV shows that were done primarily or exclusively on videotape (those external scenes in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil's faffing around running to and from Andre's and beating his car up and what not are slightly filmic but not to the exaggerated effect the videotape stuff is) so presumably I'm wondering if this is possibly a interlacing issue that I've inadvertently introduced?
I've gone down the route of digitising all my DVDs and Blu-Rays recently and I've been using Handbrake (or MakeMKV where necessary and Handbrake later) to do the ripping and get it into a compressed format that doesn't take up an obscene amount of room on my NAS drive, this is fed to Kodi through a Raspberry Pi that I can control from Kore, an Android App that acts as a Kodi remote control.
However I have noticed there appears to be a curious filmic effect that happens on most of the ripped TV material that doesn't appear on the ripped movies when I play back. This effect doesn't occur on the original DVDs and it doesn't matter what settings I use in Handbrake to encode, it still manifests on playback regardless of whether I use my Pi or a Firestick or fiddle with the Kodi settings or change the display settings on the TV (I will admit this is 10 years old already). If I play the files on my laptop I can still see the filmic effect but its nowhere near as bad on the laptop screen as the TV makes out.
The only common cause seems to be sitcoms and TV shows that were done primarily or exclusively on videotape (those external scenes in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil's faffing around running to and from Andre's and beating his car up and what not are slightly filmic but not to the exaggerated effect the videotape stuff is) so presumably I'm wondering if this is possibly a interlacing issue that I've inadvertently introduced?