Hello there,
got some problems with playing cartoons or animes from my server.
some of them were played just fine and some have some issues especially when there’s quick movement.
then i have some… don’t know how to describe this. squares, flickering, fractals while playing.
any idea?
lew
Do these same blocks appear in the videos if played in another player (Such as WMP or VLC)? What you are describing is a common issue when using a fixed bit-rate for video. You can see what you are describing here:
I guess the solution may be to look at your video files. Check to see if you are using heavily compressed video (X265), semi compressed (H264/X264), or not-at-all compressed (H264, but a low level of compression).
Ok… found the solution and it’s that stupid.
It is a problem with the tv and the funktion which adds additional frames to make the play “smooth” or more fluent. on my LG it’S called “movie sense”
So after disabling the “soap opera effect” everything runs fine…
Stupid tech…
Huh. In looking for this video, I came across one guy’s article talking about how bad this “movie sense” smoothing tech was for cartoons. I didn’t think that is what you had. But yeah, a short while back the “in” thing for TV’s was to have videos play at double frame-rate than normal (48 fps, doubled from 24). Since most video was still 24, a trick TV’s can do is to “smooth out” the frames by analyzing each frame, and adding a NEW frame in between that is kind of half-way between the two.
For some live TV it does the trick well. That is, it does smooth out the frames and looks similar to a double-frame-rate video. The problem here is that it causes what is called the “soap opera effect”, so called because soap operas are usually filmed at this higher frame-rate, and things start to look cheap and fake. Really though, it’s just because we’re been “trained” by modern films to see things blur in action, so being able to see everything happen from a high frame-rate it just looks… off.
Anyway, long story short (too late!), this frame smoothing thing (which goes by many different names, each TV maker calls it something else) seems to do REALLY badly on cartoons. Unfortunately, TV makers leave this option ON by default when you buy them, and hardly anyone digs into their TV settings to look around. And the description does not really explain what its doing either.
