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

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

>It would be nice if mplayer would print if the input video is interlaced or
>progressive.. or is there already some option that does this (I couldn't
>find).

The problem is that for non-moving images it is impossible to say
whether the image is interlaced or not. For moving images its easier
but you can never be sure, you can at most say that at xx % probability
it's interlaced.

So there really isn't an algoritmic way to find out whether a movie is
interlaced or not. Of course it would be possible to do some probability
estimation... just send the patch ;)