[MEncoder-users] Trying to fully understand de-interlacing.

[James Hastings-Trew]

  On 10-07-02 9:42 AM, Andy Furniss wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>
>> Only one person downloaded the files so far, I'd be interested to know
>> if this person thought it was a good test for deinterlacing, because I
>> 'designed' it to be that.
>
> It seems OK, but then I don't know what I am talking about :-)
>
> One suggestion from my experiments ripping PAL SD camcorder tapes 
> (though I was actually keeping interlacing) is -
>
> Have two saturated colours side by side on a horizontally moving 
> object, that way you can tell if the 4:2:0 colour space is being 
> correctly treated as interlaced, if for example you had other filters 
> before the de-interlace.

Generally speaking, deinterlacing should always be the first filter in 
the chain.