How is FileBot determining the resolution? Cause its doing it wrong
Posted: 31 Jul 2017, 20:21
After many years of relying on Filebots accuracy I just recognized that it handles PAL-DVD-resolution wrong.
If a 576p is only cropped by some pixels, eg to 574 or 572 its recognized as 480p. Which is of course nonsense. It should be
"above 480 and below 577 = 576p", because there is no 480p movie with 5xxp resolution, this must be a cropped 576p.
Even "above 540 and below 577 = 576p" would be ok (while still no correct).
There may be some technical specs that FileBot is sticking too, but they were obviously not made with Handbrake or cropping in mind. Adding black borders to a 570p movie so it's reported 576p may be technical correct, but the source still was a 576p movie, since only the aspect ratio of the source was slightly different (eg theatrical) than a "normal" PAL-DVD would be.
But like it (was and) is now, I have to manually clean up quite some many old beloved movies, that I have in a much better quality then my folder names tell me.
Why at all in the folder/filename? Because whatever database (eg Kodi) I'm using, I love to rely on a simple search in explorer for "480p" or "AC3" to find stuff, that maybe has some better sources. And here i discovered now that I already have some decent quality files, regardless of what FileBot put in the name.
Is there any config I can change so Filebot gets the resolution right?
If a 576p is only cropped by some pixels, eg to 574 or 572 its recognized as 480p. Which is of course nonsense. It should be
"above 480 and below 577 = 576p", because there is no 480p movie with 5xxp resolution, this must be a cropped 576p.
Even "above 540 and below 577 = 576p" would be ok (while still no correct).
There may be some technical specs that FileBot is sticking too, but they were obviously not made with Handbrake or cropping in mind. Adding black borders to a 570p movie so it's reported 576p may be technical correct, but the source still was a 576p movie, since only the aspect ratio of the source was slightly different (eg theatrical) than a "normal" PAL-DVD would be.
But like it (was and) is now, I have to manually clean up quite some many old beloved movies, that I have in a much better quality then my folder names tell me.
Why at all in the folder/filename? Because whatever database (eg Kodi) I'm using, I love to rely on a simple search in explorer for "480p" or "AC3" to find stuff, that maybe has some better sources. And here i discovered now that I already have some decent quality files, regardless of what FileBot put in the name.
Is there any config I can change so Filebot gets the resolution right?