[MPlayer-users] Re: bad colors with pullup

[Tuukka Toivonen]

I'm not getting any mail from this mailing list :( It would be nicer if the
replies would go both author and the mailing list... fortunately archives
work.

Rich wrote:
>I expect the device used to
>capture this video ruined it. Was it perhaps a bt8x8-based capture
>card? These cards (and perhaps some others) ruin chroma when capturing
>interlaced video in yv12/i420 (4:2:0) mode. The only way to get them
>to work right is to capture in yuy2 (4:2:2) mode and convert,
>preserving the interlacing:

Yes, you're right about the card and the capture format. So I'm somewhat
surprised that with pp=md the colors get quite correct actually.

The problem with capturing in 4:2:2 is that mplayer doesn't support 4:2:2
Quicktimes.

(It doesn't really support 4:2:0 format either but at least I succeeded
making a patch for that format... although it wasn't accepted)

And no, I won't use mencoder for capturing into AVIs because I want the
video in Quicktime format so that I can edit it with Bcast2000.

For Ville Saari: thanks for the patch. I'll try it sometime. (I was
planning to write such a thing myself but you saved me from that work).