SVP vs 120/240hz TVs with motion interpolation? (Page 1 of 3)

It's a marketing bullshit as no LCD TV has the panel able to show more than 120 Hz. So "240Hz" is 120 Hz panel plus some backlight blinking or 60 Hz plus even more blinking 

60hz or 120hz are physical hardware specs.
"soap opera effect" is any refresh rate above "standard" 24-30 fps, and the question is only in "amount of smoothness"

And marketing specs like "900 Hz" are more like "effective FPS average customer will believe he see".

Would you buy some cheap shit with only 60 Hz while there're "480 Hz" models at the same price?

It's just a common trend now, like 2K screens in the phones for example. Or 4K/8K video

BTW there was a topic here recently - http://www.svp-team.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2007

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I don't understand, SVP interpolates frames based on the 60hz refresh rate, but obviously, it has to insert extra frames. Inserting extra frames in between original ones would make it 120fps.

nope, the original fps is always 24 Hz (or 25, or 30)
so SVP is interpolating from 24 to 60 in 98% cases

for the 1% having 120 Hz screen - SVP can interpolate from 24 to 120

About that Sony video - they talk about video processor, it obviously can produce any target frame rate, so SVP can.

If you really want to find the truth - choose any particular Sony's TV with that "240 Hz" technology and download the user manual, then open the specs in the end (with "supported modes" section). It'll give use the real LCD panel refresh rate.

Well, 2K screens on smartphones DO make some sense (if the screen is relatively big).
Say a Galaxy Note 3. That has a 2K display wich is 5,7 inches large.

The theoretical highest resolution that a human eye can see is a 2K display at a distance of 1,6 x Screen diagonale (or 4K at 0,8 x diagonale or 8K at 0,4 x diagonale)

5,7 inch x 1,6 = 9,12 Inch =  @ 23,16 centimeters eye distance to that display = 1 Pixel is the smallest object an average human eye can see. 23,15cm is still a reasonable distance. Means 2K for such a display is reasonable too. 4K however wouldnt.

Chainik When I press the "GPU acceleration/OpenCL" option in SVP, it makes the audio of the video become out of sync, plus the video becomes slow, and gives me high CPU usage messages, or something like "performance is low, lower your settings". To be honest, I don't know how the OpenCL stuff works.

OKay, welp apparently I do have OpenCL, but it still is giving me trouble. The audio cuts out and gives me messages like this "performance low, SVP index=85" or something like that, and there's a weird flickering on the left edge and top and bottom parts of the video of the video, which is affecting the left side mostly. Plus, the video doesn't autocrop like it would on the CPU.

Chainik It's not black flickering, it's like VHS tape type flickering, like when the film gets slightly crumbled or something. It's only on the left edge and top and bottom parts of the video content.

Yeah I know. It's because the one-pixel black (or gray) line at the edge.

Every time I try to reset to default SVP settings, it screws up the whole SVP where no matter what setting I choose, the CPU usage stays too high. Basically I have to Re-install SVP all over again to fix the glitch.

So here's what happens. I install SVP, it works fine when I choose the right settings, but if I reset to default to experiment with other settings, then re-choose my original settings that worked, it won't work. No matter what setting I choose, it'll be stuck at the "high CPU usage" with the wrong settings, even if I re-selected the original settings that worked for me through SVP manager. For instance, I'll have a setting with little or no issues for me, then experiment with GPU acceleration/other settings, and it doesn't work well (high load issue), and I'll go back to regular CPU mode with decent settings, no longer works and causes high load issues when it clearly worked at those settings when I originally selected them, like either the player no longer changes settings or SVP broke or it stopped changing settings. I have to uninstall everything, including the built in MPC-HC, then re-install it in order to make the whole thing work again, because resetting to defaults breaks the whole thing, and creates a forever "high cpu load issue", and changing SVP back to the "working" settings I chose originally since I installed it won't fix the issue.

Performance test isn't perfect so just select profiles one step below auto-detected ones.
e.g. if you get "CPU performance level" = 3 then choose "2. Core2 Quad,..." in the list

About the flickering, okay basically, it's surrounds the content like a frame, It's usually on low quality videos that aren't HD. It's basically a flickering border surrounding the video, and it changes intensity with certain scenes and videos. I think it's the interpolation. It's an issue on GPU acceleration. Any possible way to fix?

Let's use this for example: http://m.rgbimg.com/cache1vqjTO/users/w … QwOhU.jpg, let's say the video content is the white inside the border itself. When videos are played, the rectangle border will start flashing/flickering. Kinda, funny, because the issue in MPC-HC kinda looks like that picture, like the shape of the artifact, except it's clear and flashes/flickers.