Comparing deinterlacers

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Here is a python script that can be used to quickly change the deinterlacer being used, making it easy to compare deinterlacers and decide which one works best for you.

Please be sure to read the instructions at the top of the file and to edit the file as necessary. It was quickly thrown together and isn't designed to handle every possible set-up.

  1. !/usr/bin/env python

Usage: Set up a playback profile named "test" with only one rule:

 if rez >= 0 0

Put any renderers/deinterlacers you want, except leave the secondary deinterlacer as "none" so you'll be able to tell if the primary one isn't working.

Make this your default playback profile. Then start this script from a terminal window (e.g. a laptop remotely logged in). (You may need to edit the script to provide database credentials.) If all is well, it will show your current settings for the test profile, and offer you a list of deinterlacers to choose from. When you choose a deinterlacer, it will stop playback, adjust the database settings, pause a bit, restart playback and skip backwards.

When you select a deinterlacer, it changes the renderers to match and within about a second you find yourself 15 seconds back in the same recording. So you can watch the same 15 seconds over and over again with different deinterlacers.

Currently only compares opengl and vdpau deinterlacers.

Note that this script *changes the database*. Use it at your own risk.

  1. Original version written by Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>, June 2010.

deinterlacers = 'none onefield linearblend bobdeint kerneldeint kerneldoubleprocessdeint greedyhdeint greedyhdoubleprocessdeint yadifdeint yadifdoubleprocessdeint fieldorderdoubleprocessdeint vdpauonefield vdpaubobdeint vdpaubasic vdpaubasicdoublerate vdpauadvanced vdpauadvanceddoublerate'.split()

filters = dict(opengl='openglbicubic', vdpau='vdpauhqscaling') osdrenderers = dict(opengl='opengl2', vdpau='vdpau')

from MythTV import * from time import sleep import sys

  1. You may need to pass arguments here instead, e.g.
  2. db = MythDB(DBHostName='mybackend', DBName='mythconverg',
  3. DBUserName='mythtv', DBPassword='mythtv')

db = MythDB()

cs = db.cursor()

  1. Assume the first frontend is the one we want:

frontend = db.getFrontends()[0]

def do(*args, **kwargs):

   cs.execute(*args, **kwargs)
   return cs.fetchall()

def do1(*args, **kwargs):

   cs.execute(*args, **kwargs)
   return cs.fetchone()

pgid = do1('select profilegroupid from displayprofilegroups where name = "test"')[0] print 'Editing profile with profilegroupid', pgid

while True:

   print 'Current settings:'
   print
   cursettings = {}
   for row in do('select * from displayprofiles where profilegroupid = %s', (pgid,)):
       cursettings[row[2]] = row[3]
       print '%-18s: %s' % (row[2], row[3])
   print
   print 'Deinterlacers:'
   print
   for i, d in enumerate(deinterlacers):
       print '%-2s %s' % (i, d)
   print 's  Toggle high-quality scaling filter'
   # v: Toggle openglvsync?
   print 'q  Quit'
   print
   key = raw_input('Choose a deinterlacer: ')
   newsettings = dict(cursettings)
   if key == 'q':
       sys.exit(0)
   elif key == 's':
       if cursettings['pref_filters'] == :
           renderer = cursettings['pref_videorenderer']
           newsettings['pref_filters'] = filters[renderer]
       else:
           newsettings['pref_filters'] = 
   else:
       try:
           key = int(key)
           deint = deinterlacers[key]
       except:
           print 'Error, please try again...'
           print
           continue
       newsettings['pref_deint0'] = deint
       decoder = 'ffmpeg'
       if 'vdpau' in deint:
           decoder = 'vdpau'
       newsettings['pref_decoder'] = decoder
       
       renderer = 'opengl'
       if 'vdpau' in deint:
           renderer = 'vdpau'
       newsettings['pref_videorenderer'] = renderer
       newsettings['pref_osdrenderer'] = osdrenderers[renderer]
       
       # If we have a hq scaling filter in place, make sure it
       # is compatible with the renderer:
       if cursettings['pref_filters'] != :
           newsettings['pref_filters'] = filters[renderer]
   # Stop current playback:
   if frontend.sendQuery('location').startswith('Playback'):
       print frontend.sendQuery('location')
       frontend.sendKey('escape')
   # Make changes to database:
   print
   print 'Making these changes:'
   for setting in newsettings:
       if newsettings[setting] != cursettings[setting]:
           do('update displayprofiles set data = %s where value = %s and profilegroupid = %s LIMIT 1',
              (newsettings[setting], setting, pgid,))
           print '%-18s: %-28s --> %-28s' % (setting, cursettings[setting], newsettings[setting])
   print 'Done.'
   print
   # Restart playback; need to wait so frontend is ready.
   sleep(0.9)
   loc = frontend.sendQuery('location')
   if loc in ['playbackbox', 'itemdetailpopup']:
       print 'Starting playback.'
       # See output of frontend.getKey() and getPlay() for possible things to send.
       frontend.sendKey('p')
       if loc == 'itemdetailpopup':
           # say to play starting at bookmark:
           frontend.sendKey('return')
       frontend.sendPlay('seek backward')