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Author Topic: SMPTE and INTEROP Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-16-2014 10:47 AM                     What is the difference? The reason I ask is we have a DCP here that has trouble playing in certain spots. The picture starts to break up. It's always in the same spots. I looked up the specs and it's SMPTE 30 fps. All other content on the server is INTEROP 24fps. Doing some reading I read that Interop has been the standard way I think and SMPTE is newer? Just wondering.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 03-16-2014 11:51 AM                     What systems are you playing this on, and which software version? There are hardly any SMPTE DCPs around still. The transition is coming. I think a picture breaking up is not likely to be caused by Interop/SMPTE. If your system can not play SMPTE DCPs, it will most likely not ingest or play the content at all. The 30fps could be the issue, though. As 30fps is certainly coming from a non-cinema environment, one could also question the quality of the DCP conversion. While most current systems do support 25fps and 30fps, 'proper' cinema content should be 24fps. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-16-2014 01:02 PM                     Doremi DCP2000. It has the latest software upgrade from October.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 03-16-2014 02:24 PM                     What is the status of your HDD? Does "Diagnostic tool" show any buffer underrun? If so, I'd check the SMART tables on the logs. SMPTE shouldn't have anything to do with that.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-16-2014 02:28 PM                     Everything comes up fine. Sound like just a bad transfer or creation.  |  IP: Logged

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