[MPlayer-dev-eng] New inverse-telecine filter

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:08:36PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:10:08AM -0600, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> > +.IPs luma_only=n
> > +If n is nonzero, the chroma plane is copied unchanged.  This is useful
> > +for YV12 sampled TV, which discards one of the chroma fields.
> 
> This description is somewhat incorrect. Well-formed interlaced YV12
> never discards chroma fields. Only broken TV card drivers, which
> misreport that they support YV12 when in fact they actually don't, do
> this. A more appropriate description would be "bug workaround for
> bttv's brain damage". :)

Or, on second thought, if you want to be more politically and
technically correct, you might say "bug workaround for bttv's
malformed YV12".

Rich