[MPlayer-users] Horizontal Lines in Playing DVD

[Wayde Milas]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 07:29, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> > Other files like mpeg, avi, divx run absolutely fine without any 
> > problems. The problem just arises whenever I try to play a DVD.  I have 
> > tried to fiddle around with the settings for all those players,  but 
> > nothing made a difference.
> 
> That's because most video files are not interlaced. TV and sometimes
> DVD material is. I'm not an expert, so I won't go into details, but
> I think I haven't made any mistakes in the above explanations.

You are correct sir. :) try -vf pp=fd on your player line and see if the
"lines" go away. If they do, its interlaced. The above command tells
mplayer to use the fd (ffmpeg's) deinterlacer to smooth things out for
you.

Interlacing is a HUGE topic. google it and you can read for hours.