Can you explain a little more about the improvements to skip intros and credits? Despite having the setting checked to âOnâ on both my Apple TV and Mac, I have not been offered a single âSkip Introâ or âSkip Creditâ prompt for any media I watch since the feature was introduced. I figured I was watching stuff that was somehow obscure and hadnât hit the databases, but just started re-watching âMad Menâ and still no skips.
The intro and outro come from the introdb and theintrodb databases. You can check these two websites to see if thereâs data available for the TV show youâre watching. If thereâs no data, you can submit it yourself.
Werenât the extras already being supported from local folders? Whatâs the difference between this and the way the extras were previously supported?
Please can you provide some more information about Bwdif deinterlacing? What benefits or differences does it offer over the existing Linear and Yadif options?
I rarely use Yadif as it cannot handle 50i/59.94i fields and it is detrimental to progressive frames contained within mixed progressive/interlaced content, or progressive content that is falsely flagged as interlaced.
Whilst Linear cannot do 50i/59.94i fields either, it is a good catch-all setting that deinterlaces OK when necessary (especially with 25i/29.97i) and doesnât damage progressive frames.
There were some organization methods (EG extras organized in sub folders) which werenât supported in some local folder situations.
Bwdif is a more advanced deinterlacer. It is based on Yadif, but adds W3fdif and cubic interpolation. In practice this means cleaner diagonals, less shimmer, and a bit better detail retention than Yadif.
When using the Auto setting Bwdif will be the default for all 8-bit videos, as in our tests it has proven to be both faster and higher quality than Yadif.
Does Infuse use send_field mode for this, where the output frame rate matches the number of fields (i.e. 25i will output as 50p)? Or does it use send_frame, which retains the framerate and loses half of the fields (i.e. 25i will output as 25p)?
Does Infuse use send_field mode for this, where the output frame rate matches the number of fields (i.e. 25i will output as 50p)? Or does it use send_frame, which retains the framerate and loses half of the fields (i.e. 25i will output as 25p)?
Iâve done limited testing, but it appears to be using send_frame.
This of course means dumping half the fields, so no smooth 50/60 fps motion. Moreover, like with Yadif, this also causes problems with interlaced content where genuine 25/30 fps material with frames separated into two fields will lose one of the fields - Linear is a far better option to use in this scenario.
Yadif and Bwdif is also not great with titles that have mixed interlaced/progressive content, as these modes will negatively impact the progressive frames, with artifacts such as shimmering appearing. Again, Linear is a far better option to use here, as progressive frame shimmering appears to be eliminated - no idea why that is.
Even if Yadif and/or Bwdif modes were updated to allow the full 50/60 fields, I donât know if that would fix the progressive frame issues with mixed i/p titles.
As it stands, Yadif and Bwdif are of no use with any of my content. I have to re-encode most of my 50/60i DVDs and Blu-rays with Handbrake to preserve all 50/60 fields. For any mixed i/p titles, especially those that are progressive in the majority, I use the remux, but use Linear to sort out any sporadic interlaced frames and to ensure progressive frames arenât compromised.
I mount my 115 Cloud Drive via OpenList. I can play videos from 115 normally on the OpenList homepage, and other third-party players such as VidHub and NetEase Popcorn also work fine when connecting to 115 via the WebDAV protocol.
However, in the past few days, when connecting to 115 via WebDAV in Infuse, I can browse and load the file list normally, but videos fail to play with the error:
failed to open input stream in demuxing stream
This used to work properly before. Please help fix this issue. Thank you
