[MPlayer-users] Telecined video questions

[Ville Saari]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:52:27PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> >   - top and bottom fields of the current frame
> >   - top field of the previous frame and the bottom from the current
> >   - top from the current and the bottom from the previous
> 
> You should only try one of the last two, not both, depending on the
> field order of the source frames (tff or bff).

That's exactly what I do. First I use the filter in verbose mode in mplayer
with all three modes enabled to see which ones it will find from the file
in question and then I use it in mencoder restricted to just the relevant
modes. Runs faster and avoids bogus matches.

> The opposite will never be right; if it were the picture would be totally
> wrong on a real TV.

It could happen if the video file is concatenated from parts that are
captured using different hardware. Quite unlikely however.

-- 
 Ville