I have been recording tv shows which I believe are broadcast in 1080i for the last few weeks.
All are recorded well with no issues but when I try to play them back on my ATV client there is no deinterlacing applied. This produces massive tearing across the picture.
I cannot find any settings in Plex (Mac Server) or the ATV App to fix this.
It can’t be an isolated problem can it. How are other people controlling the deinterlacing?
This is why I bought an NVIDIA Shield TV. Only settop box currently made with proper hardware deinterlacing.
I found this post on the Kodi forums very helpful:
forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=252916
This is why I bought a HDHR Extend and set it to transcode to 720p, that deinterlaces everything. I had the same issue with my ATV also, this was the only way I found around it.
one year later - is this still an issue? i just bought an hdhr extend not realizing that there’s no native 1080i -> 1080p deinterlacing support.
i’ve seen some posts about people recording with non-transcoded video and processing after but that hardly seems ideal.
There is no native 1080i to 1080p setting available on the Extend. I even emailed Silicon Dust support regarding this, here is the reply I received:
Unfortunately the video processor in the EXTEND does not have a good deinterlacing option.
I further inquired on the fact that Mobile setting deinterlaces the video to 720p, the reply I received was:
It drops one of the fields and resizes to 1280x540 with a flag to decode as 16:9.
So I would not expect any Extend transcode setting that will handle 1080i → 1080p.
thanks for inquiring, that’s pretty terrible… of all the things to prioritize during the construction of the hdhr extend you’d think that deinterlacing would be one of them.
maybe i’ll leave it on original and see if i can script something using handbrake cli and comskip since i don’t know of any way for plex itself to do it.
It will deinterlace on the Mobile setting just not on anything to 1080 resolution. So a 1080i Recording will be deinterlaced to 1280x540p as they stated in reply.
yeah… my goal is to bring over 1080i content and eventually end up with 1080p with no commercials and deinterlaced (where applicable).
The Channels app for Apple TV can stream directly from any HDHR, and uses a 50fps/60fps deinterlacer optimized for the Apple A8/A10X chip.
Windows Plex Media Player also works well so only that and Nvidia Shield supports this that I know of. Really your only options if you like high quality sport playback that is broadcast 1080i that I know of.
@ian.spencer said:
Windows Plex Media Player also works well so only that and Nvidia Shield supports this that I know of. Really your only options if you like high quality sport playback that is broadcast 1080i that I know of.
Yep. The Windows release of Plex Media Player is wonderful for 1080i MPEG2. Just make sure to enable hardware decoding and deinterlacing in the options.
Unfortunately Plex Live TV/DVR is not available for Plex Media Player, so that’s one limitation. I use the HDHR Viewer channel to watch live TV right now, and it direct-plays natively (and beautifully), even if there are natural limitations involved.
