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Let me clarify my title. I use DVDFab on some titles and MakeMKV on other titles from my library to rip them to my NAS. I always just use the audio copy and video copy to get an exact reproduction. I've been pretty happy with picture quality. However, I turned on my BluRay player the other day to see what a 3D blu ray looked like vs XBMC and saw that my TV switched to 24p which I had forgotten about. Is 24p a better quality picture than the regular rips that I do? If so, does either DVDFab or MakeMKV have an option to rip in 24p format? I haven't been able to find any information on this by Googling.
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Ah, OK so if the movie has 24p support, it will just be ripped that way and if I enable that XBMC option then my TV will switch to 24p? It does support it becuase my blu ray player switches the TV to 24p. I just wondered if there was some setting in one of my rippers that I needed to use to get 24p.
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2014-07-10, 17:24
(This post was last modified: 2014-07-10, 17:35 by un1versal.)
24p has nothing to do with quality or file size or container it also has nothing to with any special format, Im not familair with the tools you use to rip, but as long as you dont touch the framerate no conversion should be done by these tools. see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24p for some info. Clearly your tv can switch to 24p to match said framerate but xbmc will do it only if your video card supports it. Thers some info on Linux and modlines which may or not be required if you use Linux + xbmc and a nvidia card. I wrote something about that in
Configuring_resolution_via_xorg.conf (wiki) it has a few related articles which you may be interested in.
So to clarify, as long as your source material is 24p framerate and your xbmc settings to automatically switch, and presuming your video crad and tv edid is doing proper handshake, you should be fine xbmc wise. "Some" videos cards however have trouble with the edid stuff though I never seen any except some Intel stuff. Again this is partly covered in wiki for ovidia cards and the
Creating_and_using_edid.bin_via_xorg.conf (wiki) as for @
davelr tweaking the intel gpu idk.
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It seems like this is video card dependent so I'm anxious to get home and see what happens when I select match framerate in XBMC. My system is an i3 with an nVidia 640 card. It has no problem playing full 1080p and 3D content so I'm curious if it will do 24p and if I even notice a difference. The kind of thing I mean is the opening scene in Gravity with the Earth rotating and it's sort of choppy right now. I'd heard that if it played in 24p it would be smooth.
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Ok I set the settings in XBMC. I tried a few movies and they pause a few seconds and then play. I don't see the 24p indicator come up on the tv though and if I press info on the tv remote it doesn't show 24p. I guess we are not talking about a huge deal here. I was just wondering if it was capable of that mode, or if possibly I need to re rip movies that I want in 24p.
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