comparison DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml @ 16229:45b339e1b93b

grammar/phrasing fixes on the recent NTSC and telecine commit

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  America and Japan, PAL for Europe, etc.
  It is important to realize, however, that this is just the formatting for
  presentation on a television, and often does
  <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> correspond to the
  original format of the movie.
  Experience shows that NTSC contents are a lot more difficult to encode
  given that there more elements to identify in the source.
  In order to produce a suitable encode, you need to know the original
  format.
  Failure to take this into account will result in ugly combing
  (interlacing) artifacts, duplicated or lost frames in your encode.
  Besides being ugly, the artifacts also harm coding efficiency:
  You will get worse quality per bitrate.
</para>

<sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-preparing-encode-fps">
<title>Identifying source framerate</title>
<para>

  "hard-telecine". Since hard-telecine is already 60000/1001 fields
  per second, the DVD player plays the video without any manipulation.
</para>

<para>
  Another way to tell if your source is telecined or not is to watch the
  the source appending <option>-vf pullup -v</option> to your command line
  to see how <option>pullup</option> matches frames.
  If the source is telecined, you should see on the console a 3:2 pattern
  with <systemitem>0+.1.+2</systemitem> and <systemitem>0++1</systemitem>
  alternating.
  This technique has the advantage that you do not need to watch the
  source to identify it, which could be useful if you wish to automate

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  America and Japan, PAL for Europe, etc.
  It is important to realize, however, that this is just the formatting for
  presentation on a television, and often does
  <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> correspond to the
  original format of the movie.
  Experience shows that NTSC material is a lot more difficult to encode,
  because there more elements to identify in the source.
  In order to produce a suitable encode, you need to know the original
  format.
  Failure to take this into account will result in various flaws in your
  encode, including ugly combing (interlacing) artifacts and duplicated
  or even lost frames.
  Besides being ugly, the artifacts also harm coding efficiency:
  You will get worse quality per unit bitrate.
</para>

<sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-preparing-encode-fps">
<title>Identifying source framerate</title>
<para>

  "hard-telecine". Since hard-telecine is already 60000/1001 fields
  per second, the DVD player plays the video without any manipulation.
</para>

<para>
  Another way to tell if your source is telecined or not is to play
  the source with the <option>-vf pullup</option> and <option>-v</option>
  command line options to see how <option>pullup</option> matches frames.
  If the source is telecined, you should see on the console a 3:2 pattern
  with <systemitem>0+.1.+2</systemitem> and <systemitem>0++1</systemitem>
  alternating.
  This technique has the advantage that you do not need to watch the
  source to identify it, which could be useful if you wish to automate