On 29 April 2016 at 00:57, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:07:33 -0500, artisticforge . wrote: > > >>>> NB hvfhd DOES NOT OFFER HIGHER RESOLUTION (CLARITY), only doubled >>>> framerate (25FPS x2), which results in smoother scenes where motion is >>>> involved! >>> >>> How does repeating frames improve smoothness of movement? Or does this >>> encode upscale each field(*) and encode that to increase the temporal >>> resolution? >> >> It is the frames per second that provide the human eye with the >> persistence of vision, the illusion of motion. > > I could show you 100 fps but if there where only 4 different images > displayed the illusion of motion would be no smoother than 25 fps. You only > get smoother movement by increasing the number of different images > displayed. > > So if this hvfhd only repeats each frame to get a higher frame there is no > increase in smoothness. How ever if they take each field, upscale it and > encode as a frame that would inrease the smoothness.
I believe the frame repeating idea is a red herring. Real 50 frame/s computer video is a thing which exists. If your browser's up to it you can see for yourself here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmNapQdWFKg You'll need to choose one of the "p50" resolutions on the Quality menu. Dave _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

