[MPlayer-users] Scaling interlaced video for DVD playback

Neil Radisch nradisch at panix.com
Fri Nov 14 14:39:54 CET 2003


The second option (quoted below), is merely an encode side trick.
The result should play in any environment.

> > 2) Fake the width. Someone (Billy Biggs?) suggested this to me. Feed the
> > interlaced frame
> >     into the decoder, but tell the decoder that the frame is twice as
wide
> > and half as high as
> >     it really is. This stops the encoder from "smearing" the interlace
and
> > screwing up the motion.
> All this implies the use of a software decoder, while I need the file to
be
> played on a normal set-top player. Never mind, you clarified the matter
well
> enough: I must wait until (if ever) ffmpeg develops their mpeg encoder a
> little bit to include interlaced support.
> Thanks anyway!
>



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