[MPlayer-users] Interlaced playback now working...

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:39:34PM -0800, RC wrote:
> I now (finally) have interlaced output working quite well with mplayer.
> 
> I know well that tfields isn't supposed to work with mplayer (it even
> says so in the man page) and I've seen for myself what a terrible job it
> does with -vo xv.  That said, tfields does seem to be working perfectly
> with -vo gl...
> 
> I just happened to try it out with:
>  mplayer -dr -vo gl -vf tfields=4,scale,format=bgr16 -noframedrop
> and was quite surprised when it worked.  
> 
> I've gone through and tested it with interlaced, progressive, and hard
> telecined videos to make sure I wasn't imagining things, and it handles
> them all just about perfectly on my TV-out.  I even added -fps
> 60000/100 and it played back fine, and at normal-speed for some reason
> (perhaps swapinterval=1 is strictly limiting the framerate?).

Yes, it is. I'm surprised the A/V sync doesn't break with this though.
In any case it's a very swapinterval-specific hack..

Rich