Hey guys, I am brand new to SVP 4 Pro and am having a hard time figuring out a couple of things. I would greatly appreciate any help or advice from you guys.
My setup consists of a Plex Server, and Roku Ultra's for the clients. My library mainly consists of 1080p, 24FPS content. I recently built a home theater, and noticed a lot of motion judder. I experimented with the projectors built in frame interpolation and this solves the problem. The downside is that I can't use any of the 4K enhancements that the projector has, and the built in frame interpolation is just OK, even on a medium setting has a lot of distracting artifacts.
My intention is to convert my 1080p 24FPS library, over to 48FPS, and use that with Plex. I can then have the roku output 4K, and the projector can use the 4K upscaling and detail enhancements. I am also hoping that SVP will handle the frame interpolation better.
Right out of the box, I tested the movie Oblivion. I have not changed any settings within SVP yet. Watching it on MPC-HC with SVP enabled, it actually looked pretty good. I then transcoded it, and watched the transcoded version. The transcoded version has really bad artifacts that consist of dark squares. Here is an example of the artifacts, and they happen very frequently:
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I want to reiterate that the one that SVP was doing in real time did not have those artifacts, so I am a bit confused.
Under video profile, I have the default settings of Automatic, "Movie X2", Artifacts Masking "Medium", etc.
I also did not change anything under the transcoding menu.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the advanced settings. The SVP online manual says this: "To switch to manual mode, turn off the Automatic options selection mode.". I can't figure out how to do this and was never able to get the manual settings to show up.
I'm also confused about this... are the "Video Profiles" the same exact profiles that are used for transcoding? If so, how come they look completely different when watching real time SVP, versus transcoding? I figured the transcoded version would actually be better, since it doesn't have the constraint of doing it in real time. This was not the case.
Thanks again, and any help or advice is appreciated! Remember this is my first time using SVP so I am still trying to figure everything out.