[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: New inverse-telecine filter

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:57:44AM -0600, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> > >Which of the G1 filters would be best for DVD ripping at the moment?
> > 
> > I wrote dint filter for the same purpose - to do inverse telecine by
> > deleting extra interlaced frames. It works fine for me at the moment,
> > I've ripped 5 DVDs already with that. :)
> 
> From the manpage I was never able to figure out what dint does, and I
> was lazy to look at the code.  But from what you describe, this does
> not seem to be enough, if you drop one of the interlaced frames, it
> still leaves you with an other, and you are actually discarding a
> field, so how can that look good?  You have to merge the last field of
> the discarded frame with the next field, does dint do that?

>From my experience, dint does nothing at all.... But even if it did
what it claims, it's no good for inverse telecine, like you say.

Rich