[MPlayer-users] Horizontal lines around edges

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>> > I'm seeing horizontal lines around the edges of on-screen objects when
>> > they are in motion.  I've tried 3 DVDs and 2 clearly have the problem
>> > and 1 clearly does not.  What can I do about this?
>>
>> This is known as "telecine". Now that you know what to search for, there
>> are lots of discussions about it, here and elsewhere.
> 
> I tried -vf ivtc and it seems to clean up the artifacts by about
> 30%-40% but there are plenty left.  Is that because my CPU is not fast
> enough?
> 
This isn't telecine, but the result of a DVD having interlaced content.
What you do need is an deinterlace filter, like having
vf=pp=lb:a
in your mplayer.conf

Adrian