[MEncoder-users] pullup useless?

[Phil Ehrens]

James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> Loren Merritt wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> -fps 30000/1001 -vf pullup,softskip,yadif,harddup -ofps 24000/1001
> >>
> >> (the yadif is in there to catch the occassional interlaced frame that
> >> might creep through from bad edit points on some titles)
> >>     
> >
> > At the cost of reducing detail in the rest of the frames.
> > There are some deinterlacers that try to detect progressive blocks and 
> > turn themselves off there. Yadif isn't one of them.
> >   
> Which deinterlacer is that? I was under the impression that yadif was 
> masked, and only occassionally mistakes detail for interlaced content. A 
> constructive comment would have included an improved command line. :)

It's necessary to test on a case-by-case basis to determine
whether yadif can work it's magic. Sometimes waving a wand
just produces a swishing sound.