[MEncoder-users] pullup useless?

[Phil Ehrens]

Laine Lee wrote:
> On 11/28/08 8:12 AM, "Daniel Gnoutcheff" <gnoutchd at union.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 14:16 +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> >> Well, no one said that pullup is universal solution. If detc or ivtc
> >> work for you, use them (though you should use ivtc=1 with mencoder, and
> >> corresponding detc options). These filter have their advantages and
> >> there are cases when they do work better, due to different strategy.
> > 
> 
> I know a month has gone by, but I just thought I would suggest that you try
> the only filter chain that has ever successfully accomplished pullup for me.
> I'll grant you that I've not tried it with a variety of sources, but it
> might be worth a try for yours.
> 
> -vf framestep=2,filmdint=fast=0,softskip,harddup

I hope the message that people are getting by reading between
the lines of this exchange is that deinterlacing strategy is
source dependent. Unless people divulge the details of their
source material, this sort of discussion will only ever reach
a workable solution by accident.