[MPlayer-users] Re: show interlaced/progressive info..

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:36:52PM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > > for example flaskmpeg (under windows) shows this.. and other tools too.
> > 
> > By decoding the video and guessing. Not acceptable.
> 
> For mpeg it should be possible to decide whether or not it has been
> encoded as interlaced based on the picture flags AFAICS.  Of course
> that does not really say anything about the actual interlacing, but I
> wonder if this is what the poster meant.
> 

Yep, that's what I meant. 

You should also be able to get this information from some avi's too.. at
least DV avi's are usually interlaced?

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