[MPlayer-users] what is deinterlacing for?

[Jonas Jermann]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:47:58PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> heh, i've already read that site.  along with another website called "myths 
> about deinterlacing".  i guess what i'm looking for is a very dumbed down 
> answer...=)  the latter site says that deinterlacing is good when creating 
> divx's, but bad when creating vcd's.  is this true?  also, what happens when 
> you try to deinterlace something thats not interlaced?  also, one website 
> says that you deinterlace with mencoder with -npp -ci, but i couldn't find 
> those options in the mencoder manual, all i could find was -vop lavcdeint, is 
> that the right one to use?

Check -pphelp then... I donno any better site :(

Regards
    Jonas