13.08.2021, 01:01
Thank you for this thread, Sijan. I am having an interesting issue, too. Not with Hybrid, so much, but with Video Enhance AI. I am upscaling a DVD of an animated movie that I doubt will ever see even a BR release. I have to use my laptop to run VEAI, but it has a problem that it randomly restarts when running that program, so instead of upscaling the entire DVD at the same time, I ripped the VOB files and ran each VOB through individually. Came out pretty good, I'm happy with the results, but I noticed an odd issue with the first VOB file, because it was made for TV movie, it is 4:3 and when upscaling to 4K, it comes out 2880x2160 (Anyone familiar with VEAI, I used the Custom upscale % to avoid burning in the black bars along the side). That works for the four later VOB's but for the first VOB file, I keep getting 3480 x 2160. I could not figure out why that one VOB was odd. I decided to use Hybrid to convert it to an mp4 and use that in VEAI. Hybrid shows it to be Progressive in the Video info. section on the Base tab. Out of curiosity, I checked the other four VOB's and they all show "Telecined(soft)". That seems to make sense why VEAI is treating that one VOB differently. The problem is even if I were to use Hybrid to convert that one VOB to .mp4 and run that through VEAI, VEAI will only spit out an mp4 with 29.97 FPS for that VOB, the other VOB's it spits out 59.94 mp4's. I'm trying to avoid re-encoding the files of the upscaled video, so I ended up ripping the entire DVD and ran that through VEAI, and since my laptop randomly restarts while running VEAI, I ended up splitting it up into 1/4's and used Shutter Encoder to merge them back together. I even tried to force Hybrid to accept it as being Telecined(soft) and output an interlaced video, but the frame count came out with fewer frames than the original VOB.
I wondered if that one VOB is truly progressive and is not interlaced, but now that I see you are running into this issue, I am starting to think that it really might be progressive as a part of some attempt of a form of copy protection. Unfortunately, I think the direct from VOB to 4K upscale came out a bit better than the rip to mp4 to upscale, but even the ripped to upscale came out pretty good.
I wondered if that one VOB is truly progressive and is not interlaced, but now that I see you are running into this issue, I am starting to think that it really might be progressive as a part of some attempt of a form of copy protection. Unfortunately, I think the direct from VOB to 4K upscale came out a bit better than the rip to mp4 to upscale, but even the ripped to upscale came out pretty good.