[MPlayer-users] deinterlace+horiz scale

[Mikhail Ramendik]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

> > I was trying out "-vf field" a while back, and I found something
> > strange.  It seems the quality is much better if I just use scale to
> > halve the vertical resolution, rather than using field.  -vf field
> > resulted in stair-stepping lines, and just an all-around much lower
> > quality picture, while halving the resolution with scale produced a
> > picture that looked very nearly as good as full-res.
> 
> And it also has ghosts whenever there was motion!! VERY VERY BAD!!
> (Same thing as pp=lb :) 

What ghosts? -vf field, or scale to half resolution?

As far as I can uncerstand, -vf field should not ghost. (Nor does it, in
my experience).

Yours, Mikhail Ramendik