[MPlayer-users] Digital camcoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:35:49PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2003 15:56 schrieb D Richard Felker III:
> 
> > > Ever wondered why normal TV looks so much smoother (when looking high
> > > motion programs.. for example sports which are captured using
> > > tv-cameras) than for example Mplayer playing from tv-card? It's
> > > because tv displays at 50 fps.. and mplayer only at 25.
> >
> > Smoother? IMO it looks horrible because all the edges are jagged from
> > interlacing. This is especially bad when watching sports. Yes it's
> > temporally smoother, but spacially it has extremely un-smooth
> > artifacts.
> 
> Can you tell me a TV that shows "jagged edges from interlacing"?

Any standard old CRT. Obviously it doesn't look like combing on a
progressive monitor, but it still looks jagged and bad.

> You don't mean 100Hz TVs or LCD TVs?

Nope, never used one.

> > I'm quite familiar with it all, and interlacing is simply not
> > acceptable. Even on a true interlaced display it looks very bad.
> 
> Your TV must be defect if you see interlacing.

No, your eyes must be defect if you don't...

Rich