At 1:20 PM -0400 10/5/05, John Shutt wrote: >Given all the macroblocking I see in bit-starved HD during fast pans, zooms, >and dissolves, interlace artifacts are the least of my worries. > But compression artifacts are largely an issue of starving the stream during peak bit-rate requirements. If given adequate headroom they "should" not be present. And these artifacts are more prominent in interlaced source as dealing with the under-sampled source further stresses the encoder. Interlace artifacts are WORSE when the compression is good. Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.