[MPlayer-users] Deinterlacing by scaling 0.5 and doubling fps

[Oliver Seitz]

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering: when a film is recorded by a camera in 25 fps
> interlaced, actually every other line is updated 50 times per second.
>
> So, since I want to scale the film by 0.5 anyway, I could gain 50 fps on
> the way. Gaining fps is valuable to me, as I am going to play the film
> in slow motion.
>
> So my question is, how can this be done using mplayer/mencoder?

With -vf tfields

The result even looks far better than I expected.

Greets, Kiste