[MPlayer-users] Re: Detecting interlacing

[Matthias Wieser]

On Februar 22, 2006 06:52 Rich Felker wrote:
> 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.

Greedy works relatively well on 3:2 or 2:2 pull down film source.

On the other hand, Tony speaks about deinterlacing and I think he really 
means deinterlacing. Not everyone lives in a never-the-same-color 
country. :-)

Regards,
  Matthias