[MPlayer-users] what is deinterlacing for?

[Eric Potter]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:47, 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?
> 
No, that's not the right one to use.  The best one, in my experience is
-vop pp=lb
> thanks,
> -- christopher
> 
> On Sunday 19 January 2003 11:47 pm, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:38:20PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > hello,
> > > i rip many of my dvd's to divx and i was just wondering what
> > > deinterlacing is for and do i need to do it.  i couldn't find much about
> > > what it was for in the mencoder documentation.  also, what about
> > > deinterleaving?
> >
> > Check www.100fps.com.
> >
> > Regards
> >     Jonas
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > RTFM!!!  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS
> > Search:  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch
> > http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
> 
> _______________________________________________
> RTFM!!!  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS
> Search:  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch
> http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users