[MPlayer-users] Telecined video questions

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:13:38AM +0100, Vladimir Niksic wrote:
> >It's hard to know what the hell was done to it, if it's PAL and
> >telecined. Probably a bad NTSC->PAL conversion post-telecine that will
> >be almost impossible to repair. You'd be better off downloading the
> >original NTSC version.
> 
> I didn't download it in the first place, I saved an mpeg2 stream from Astra.

Right. I'm saying you'd be better off to download a clean copy of the
same thing rather than trying to record a bad PAL conversion off TV...

Another option is just to throw away the bottom field...

Rich