[Ffmpeg-devel] deinterlace at the decoding stage...

[Måns Rullgård]

"leon zadorin" <leonleon77 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> pardon if the question is rather silly... is it possible (e.g. via
> setting some option in codec's context) to deinterlace the image
> during decoding (e.g. for the avcodec_decode_video to produce
> de-interlaced frame)... or is it a stupid question because interlaced
> source may affect encoding process to such an extent that decoding of
> the interlaced image will not produce easily de-interlaceable output?

What you are suggesting is pointless at best.  The decoder needs the
original frames for motion compensation anyway.  Furthermore, a good
deinterlacer uses information from previous and following frames.

You should also know that deinterlacing is necessarily a lossy
process.  The only exception is a telecined progressive source, but
that's not really interlaced in the true sense.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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