[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] softpulldown

[The Wanderer]

This was not sent to the mailing list, but to you directly, as it isn't
actually ontopic.

Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Arpi wrote:
> 
>>> This patch adds a 'softpulldown' video filter. It uses the mpeg2
>>> video header information to make 29.97 fps out of 23.976 fps
>>> softtelecined material. This should help especially for dvds
>>> which are partly softtelecined.
>> 
>> Uhh.
> 
> Because you can do -vf softpulldown,detc and the detelecine filter 
> should work better.
 > In my case I needed it because I wanted to do a field by field
 > compare of two episodes of the Sailor Moon DVD Box where one episode
 > is partly soft telecined and the other is completely hard telecined.
 > (See http://www.sim.uni-hannover.de/~td/smdiff.html)

I'd just like to note that the "difference" images from some of the
later fields make some pretty good abstract art. ^_^

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       The Wanderer

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