[MPlayer-users] encoding interlaced DVD material

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:18:01PM +0100, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi, I would like to encode material from an interlaced dvd. My primary 
> output will be on a tv set via the -vo mpegpes output with a DVB card; I 
> think I shouldn't deinterlace it at encoding time for the best quality. 
> But what about mpeg4 encoding of interlaced material? Is the -lavcopts' 
> option "ildct" needed or at least useful when interlaced material is 
> being encoded?

Not needed, but it will improve quality to filesize ratio.

> P.S. divx 503 is known to deal with interlaced material. Was lavc 
> already there few months before?

Yes.

Rich