[MPlayer-users] any luck playing 1080i content through VGA output to HDTV?

[Norman Ramsey]

 > > The general suggestion is to re-encode your video to double frame-rate
 > > with tfields...  I'm sure that'll take quite some CPU power with 1080
 > > video....
 > >
 > > Plus there's on-screen graphics...  
 > 
 > All of this doesn't apply with HDTV. The lines are no longer 1-2
 > pixels tall but 10 pixels tall, and the two fields basically line up
 > perfectly due to the excessive oversampling.

The CPU requirements still seem daunting... I have a lowly AMD Sempron 3300+.
I don't especially relish waiting for a game to end, then another N
hours for transcoding :-(

A pox on broadcasters who give us interlaced sports!


Norman