[MPlayer-users] what is deinterlacing for?

[Florin Andrei]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 12:32, Haas Wernfried wrote:
> 
> if the picture sucks because there are vertical stripes in it if something
> is moving vertically through the picture, you need deinterlacing ;)

Only if your display is progressive (like computer monitors).

If you're using interlaced displays (like TV screens) deinterlacing will
actually hurt the overall quality (but not too much).

> the only dvds i remember needing deinterlacing were american tv series 
> (futurama/x-files) on dvd (i'm in europe and it was the RC2 european
> edition).

On the NTSC standard (North America), almost any show that was created
for TV, not for cinema theaters, is shot on interlaced material;
therefore, if you're going to watch it on progressive displays you need
to deinterlace it.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/