[MEncoder-users] Need some hints for my tv recording concept

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 23:25 schrieb Rich Felker:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:47:36PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 19:02 schrieb Rich Felker:
> > >
> > > Never use any height except full (480 for ntsc, 576 for pal) or
> > > half (240 for ntsc, 288 for pal). Anything else will give bogus,
> > > damaged output.
> >
> > That's not totally true. At least (some?) saa7134 cards have an nice
> > deinterlacer. For example, capturing PAL with 640x480 results in a
> > nice progressive video without interlacing artefacts.
>
> This is fundamentally impossible. There's no such thing as a nice
> half-framerate deinterlacer.

"[...]without +visible+ interlacing artefacts". And yes, there are nice 
deinterlacers (dscaler, xine,.. have some really good ones).