[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter: add framerate video filter

[Robert Krüger]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
> wrote:
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>> Robert Krüger <krueger <at> lesspain.de> writes:
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>> > Do you mean processing the top and bottom fields
>> > as separate progressive
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>> Yes.
>> (Sorry, I thought this is what "deinterleaving and
>> interleaving" means.)
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>> > streams?
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>> Not necessarily "streams", just not processing them
>> interlaced but deinterleaved.
>> If this leads to shadows, then I would suggest to
>> use two framerate instances.
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> I understand the variant with processing the fields as separate streams
> with two framerate instances, but not the other one. One would have to test
> but the more I think about it, I think it could very well work and result
> in better quality as the deinterlacing/reinterlacing obviously destroys
> motion information.
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> One would probably have to make tests with interlaced footage that
> contains a lot of motion.
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> It would certainly be interesting to see that filter chain, though. I
> haven't worked with the il filter at all, so I would have to read up on
> that first.
>

Which I should have done first. I read the il filter docs and now I
understand what you mean. If I am correct in assuming, what the framerate
filter does, this might work just with one stream and would do what I
described as using two streams.