Automatically change refresh rate?

wyerd

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I recently took delivery of my new Panasonic TH-50PF20 plasma which supports 24p as well as 50p so I’ve created two profiles in Catalyst Control Center which can be selected manually by hotkeys. Is there any way to have the system automatically select the correct profile for the selected video material?

My PC’s running Windows 7 Media Center together with TMT3 for BD playback and an ATI 5450 graphics card with 10.5 drivers and AnyDVDHD.

Thanks,
Dave.
 

mossym

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mediaportal does it automatically, not sure how they manage it. there must be some piece of software that can autodetect it

was this a feature of reclock by any chance? never used it so not sure
 

jtyles

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I recently took delivery of my new Panasonic TH-50PF20 plasma which supports 24p as well as 50p so I’ve created two profiles in Catalyst Control Center which can be selected manually by hotkeys. Is there any way to have the system automatically select the correct profile for the selected video material?

My PC’s running Windows 7 Media Center together with TMT3 for BD playback and an ATI 5450 graphics card with 10.5 drivers and AnyDVDHD.

Thanks,
Dave.

I think AnyDVD can do it, take a look at reclock as well on the slysoft site this can be made to run a script to do it.

Jon.
 

skull_bone

Established Member
He's right about Anydvd. If you go to External Programs and tick the box 'Start external program on media change. I've owned this program for a year now, and i've only just found this out! lol!!
 
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I have my desktop rez set to 23hz and media center set to 50hz. When i play a bluray (disc or rip) via tmt3 it goes to 23hz on its own.
 

imilne

Established Member
I know mpc-hc can do it, and people say Media Portal can too, but I've never checked. These two are really examples of the way it *should* be done, that it, the video player itself is obviously aware of the frame-rate and adjusts the refresh rate accordingly (assuming you're running full screen).

The survey that TMT put out recently suggests they're thinking about it too.

Reclock can help, but it's solution is far from ideal and requires a fair bit of luck and/or black magic to get working, partly because of its reliance on Powerstrip to manage the actual refresh rate change. This is because if you change the refresh rate while a video player is already running many of them don't respond well to the event, and often crash or black screen. Powerstrip can make the change without generating an event, but it's not compatible with a lot of modern cards these days.

It can also sometimes work with Catalyst/nVideo profiles, but again it's down to pot luck as to whether your video player will handle the refresh rate change nicely. With a profile change, you can be sure it'll be aware of the event - whether it handles it nicely is another matter entirely.

Reclock can however, also help you avoid having to change to 24fps at all, as it can speed up the video (with correct audio pitch adjustment) to 25fps, meaning a single refresh rate can be used for the majority of blu-rays, UK television, DVDs, etc. NTSC movies will play perfectly at 24/25fps too, and it's really just older US TV or bonus features where you'd need to switch to 59/60hz.
 
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wolvers

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Does AnyDVD only do this with discs? Looking at the settings it doesn't seem to support ripped files. MPC-HC does do refresh change with ripped files IIRC.

Also, doesn't reclock break bitstreaming? I think it used to.
 

jtyles

Established Member
Does AnyDVD only do this with discs? Looking at the settings it doesn't seem to support ripped files. MPC-HC does do refresh change with ripped files IIRC.

Also, doesn't reclock break bitstreaming? I think it used to.

The latest versions of reclock does support bitstreaming but it is not recommended particularly if you are rate changing.

Jon.
 

imilne

Established Member
Yeah, Reclock is one to avoid if you really need to see those lights on your amp.

As far as I know - and I don't have the hardware to test this - the latest version of TMT with a 5xxx card will output non-downsampled 24bit audio with Blu-rays, even in LPCM mode (rather than bitstream). This can obviously still be used with Reclock.
 

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