[MPlayer-users] what deinterlace options do you use for dvds?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:49:38PM +0100, gabor farkas wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hi,
> 
> after a long time using mplayer i got my first dvd ( flcl rulez :-)))
> 
> it's an anime dvd....
> 
> and of course i started it with 'mplayer -dvd 1'
> 
> and it worked,
> but it's interlaced.
> 
> so i wanted to deinterlace it,
> so i started mplayer -pphelp,
> and then used 'mplayer -vop pp=lb'....
> 
> what are other people's experiences? what is your favourite
> deinterlacer?
> for me it seemed that all otheres except lb produce blocky picture....

One really cool trick, especially for people with slow cpu's... You
can deinterlace with "mplayer -dvd 1 -dr -vop halfpack" and it's VERY
fast. You lose a good bit more quality, but its actually faster than
not deinterlacing from my experience!

Rich