[MPlayer-users] MENCODER: AuDIO OF SYNC when recording from TV

[Fabio Papa]

On Monday 11 August 2003 10:48, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:50:22AM +0200, Fabio Papa wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Friday 08 August 2003 19:30, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > > DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > >
> > > D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > >>>No, you don't have to deinterlace since it is exactly half PAL
> > > >>> height and the interlacing effect is eliminated automatically then.
> > > >>
> > > >>Ugh!!?? Wh.. what are you telling me, that I deinterlaced till now,
> > > >> loosing much video quality, all for nothing? Godness me, please
> > > >> confirm! If this is true, I will have to adjust some scripts...
> > > >
> > > > No, deinterlacing loses the same quality that dropping to 288 height
> > > > does. BTW, if you only want 288 height, why not just capture 288
> > > > lines to begin with??? That way you only get one field, and there's
> > > > no need for any resizing. It will make encoding a lot faster.
> > >
> > > If you have a decent machine, it can be better to capture whole PAL
> > > resolution and rescale, just because it's more resistant to noise. The
> > > downside of scaling to 1/2 without deinterlacing are the resulting
> > > "ghosts" behind moving objects (as with linear blend deint.). If it is
> > > a real 50fps interlaced material, median deinterlacer+scale to 1/2 PAL
> > > would be my choice.
> >
> > That is what I'm doing right now, so it seems to be ok, after all!
> > Anyway, while I got the ghosty effect with pp=lb as you suggested, I'm
> > not too sure about it when scaling without deinterlacing. I guess I could
> > give it a go, since median deint gives other stuttering problems with
> > some Voyager shows!
> > Thanks anyway!
>
> I dunno about Voyager, but ST:TNG is NOT interlaced but rather
> telecined. If the same is true for voyager, you need to inverse
> telecine instead of using a deinterlacer of you'll kill quality and/or
> make ghosts (depending on which deinterlacer).
>
> BTW, personally I would recommend not going to the trouble to record a
> bad show like voyager... ;)

Well, it certainly is not on par with tng, but I am a sooo great fan of st 
series...
Anyway, to keep it on topic, I must have said before that I live in .it, so 
its PAL land here. So telecined is not an option, right?
Thanks again!

>
> Rich
>
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