[MPlayer-users] Scaling interlaced video for DVD playback

[Fabio Papa]

On Friday 14 November 2003 14:39, Neil Radisch wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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.
> >
Hmm, then I don't understand. When exactly do I have to specify these 
parameters, during the mpeg encoding phase? Or directly during the first live 
capture? And how exactly do I tell mencoder that the source is different to 
what it detects?
Sorry to bother! Thanks!

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