I was doing some tinkering tonight as I do when the mood hits, and I have somewhat of a noob-like question. First, if you guys remember I’ve complained about the poor quality of watching SD digital channels on the HTPC. But now I’ve also noticed that DVDs that are “homemade” don’t look that great either. I’m talking about stuff that’s burned to DVD like TV shows or movies from cable or satellite, or even home movies. Since I use PowerDVD as the decoder (in SageTV) for DVD it occurred to me to check the “Video” settings in Cyberlink’s configuration. Under the “Smart De-Interlacing Mode”, it has “None” and “Perform Hardware De-Interlacing”. The “None” button was selected. I was going to select “Perform Hardware De-Interlacing”, but the choices under it confuse me. The choices are “BOB (Hardware Deinterlacing)” and “Weave (No Deinterlacing)”. But there are also 3 other choices that are numbers…such as this “{6CB69578-7617-4637-91E5-…}”. I have no idea what they mean. Underneath the “None” and “Perform Hardware De-Interlacing” there is a button for “Perform smart de-interlacing” and then sub-buttons under that that says “Auto-select” and “Specify manually”. All of that is grayed out and can’t be selected. So, in summary, here’s the question(s). I have “Enable hardware acceleration (ATI AVIVIO)” checked, so would that overrule any other settings (CCC de-interlacing is set to “Vector Adaptive”)? If not, then what settings should I be using in the PowerDVD configuration…None or Perform Hardware De-interlacing? If it’s Perform Hardware De-interlacing, which method do I choose? Should I get the “Smart de-interlacing” to enable? I’m pretty confused by the choices and their differences. Regular DVDs look very good, but the other stuff doesn’t. I should be able to achieve the best of both worlds, right?
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