TMT 5 Stuttering Blu-Ray playback

[eagle63]

Thanks again Aaron, you’ve been immensely helpful.  I will check out MPC-HC when I have some time.  I’m surprised my ripped blu-rays/dvd’s look as good as they do given that there must be a constant mish-mash of frame rate “fighting” happening between the content and WMC.  (I do notice some judder, but it’s not bad – I doubt the rest of the family notices it)  Although in the future maybe I should be encoding my rips differently in Handbrake and forcing the framerate to match WMC?  (59.94) Or maybe that doesn’t really solve anything..   Oh well, not going to worry about it much now.   Thanks

[Aaron Ledger]

I would not recommend encoding 24p content to 59.94 fps. This would be “hard telecine” and is rarely a good idea. Any device today is generally more than capable of handling the telecine requirement on demand. By this, I mean that your HTPC (or other decoding device) will decode the 24p file and then perform the telecine (2:3 pulldown) on the fly.

Telecine (or pulldown) judder is definitely noticeable for those that see it. Many viewers that have watched telecined TV and movies their entire lives may have become accustomed to the judder and so it just seems “normal.”

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