[MPlayer-users] Re: Detecting interlacing

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:29:07PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > If I enable a deinterlacing filter anyway, will it just be ignored if
> > the source isn't interlaced?
> 
> If you use a good deinterlacing filter (ToMoComp, Greedy,..), it will not 
> harm non-interlaced videos. Unfortunately Mplayer does not have any good 
> deinterlacing filter.

However, it will horribly harm telecined video, and usually video that
people think is interlaced is actually a telecined version of
progressive content.

Rich