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    graininess during dvd playback

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by myshkin, Sep 23, 2007.

  1. myshkin

    myshkin Notebook Consultant

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    I just tried out a few dvds on my new mbp. I noticed some graininess on darker colors. its pretty obvious. do i need to get some kind of codecs or something to improve dvd playback? I'm using the dvd player that comes with osx
     
    myshkin, Sep 23, 2007
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  2. sulkorp

    sulkorp Notebook Deity

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    Id say that the graininess would come from a few sources
    1. the actual camera when they shot the film
    2. compression that they use to compress DVDs
    3. The fact that a dvd is 640x480 and mbp is 1440(15"), theres bound to be some kinda of if quality loss isnt the word for it, something similiar since your scaling the resolution up to that high.
     
    sulkorp, Sep 23, 2007
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  3. SauronMOS

    SauronMOS Notebook Evangelist

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    Unfortunately, the DVD Player app in Tiger sucks. It simply stretches the video out to fullscreen instead of upscaling/resampling it to the resolution of the screen, like Windows DVD players do.

    DVD Player in Leopard fixes this.

    So you'll either have to wait until Leopard is released or use Windows or try VLC. I've never found VLC's playback to be good, so I just switch over to Windows and use one of the (much) higher quality players available there.
     
    SauronMOS, Sep 24, 2007
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  4. HLdan

    HLdan Notebook Virtuoso

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    The DVD player in Tiger plays fine, honestly it plays just as well as my Sony standalone DVD player. Maybe the OP is having other issues. Are you so picky that you have to switch over to Windows just to watch a DVD?
     
    HLdan, Sep 24, 2007
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