[MPlayer-users] Frame interpolation

[Grant]

>> > Are there any plans for mplayer to do frame interpolation to negate
>> > 24p judder?
>>
>> There was a time when everyone wanted 24p cameras to look more like "the
>> movies".
>>
>> By which I mean to say: you want to interpolate back up to a higher frame
>> rate? Blech, what a horrible idea. You might as well go ahead and watch it
>> in 4:3 crop with mono audio, in black and white, while you're at it, just to
>> ensure the experience is as damaged as possible.
>
> Well, people's opinions and tastes differ...
> However I guess that many of the multimedia developers would find the
> artefacts too horrible to actually want that feature, so it is quite
> unlikely to happen.

Which artefacts are guaranteed with frame interpolation?  They can't
be eliminated?

- Grant


> Also due to performance it seems more likely to me that this kind of
> feature might become available through hardware acceleration e.g.
> via VDPAU or VA-API, but I have no particular reason to believe that
> will really happen.