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

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:23:04PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 05:02 schrieb RC:
> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:40:11 +0200
> >
> > Matthias Wieser <mwieser at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > What about "kerndeint"?
> > > Kerndeint only deinterlaces when it is necessary.
> >
> > I've heard that, so I tried it out, and it deinterlaced the progressive
> > DVD I was using for testing...
> 
> Maybe the threshold has to be adjusted slightly to work well with your 
> dvd.
> 
> > Visually, I don't find kerndeint to be any better than pp=md.
> 
> Urgs. pp=md produces blocks (width: 1 pixel,height: 2 pixel). Looks very 
> bad (IMO).

pp=md,pp=lb alleviates this problem a little bit.. :)
not a good solution though.

> Do you have a TV card? You can use Tvtime to investigate how good 
> deinterlacers should look: TVtime has several deinterlacers, including 
> pp=lb (called "Blur: Temporal), pp=fd (Blur: Vertical), tfields 
> (Television: Full Resolution).

Actually tfields is equivalent to Television: Half Resolution in
tvtime. It would probably look better if I added a mode similar to
Television: Full Resolution, but it would also take insane cpu time to
decode and insane bitrate to store such a file..

Rich