[MPlayer-users] Question on converting to DivX4...

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:59:07AM -0500, Jeff Clagg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:22:27AM -0500, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
> > On Jul 4, 2005, at 23.18, RC wrote:
> > >The most suggested deinterlacer is "pp=md".  If you don't like the
> > >artifacts from that one, try "pp=lb", but you can expect ghosting
> > >artifacts during fast-motion scenes with that.
> > Well, personally I like the lavcdeint filter. It does the job well  
> > enough for me, and I work with both DVDs and uncompressed DV, high  
> > and low motion scenes.
> 
> As long as we're chiming in on this subject:
> 
> tfields is very valuable for deinterlacing high-motion content. With any
> other deinterlacing method, motion is sometimes left so chunky looking
> that it can be hard to follow what's going on.
> 
> tfields will leave some amount of visible flickering on stationary
> sharp horizontal edges, which may make it unsuitable or annoying for
> some types of content.

Add very strong temporal-denoise (hqdn3d) after tfields and it looks
pretty good. Something like hqdn3d=4:3:20 (defaults for spatial, large
temporal, but you can play with all 3 and see what looks good..)

Rich