[MPlayer-dev-eng] understanding mplayer's filters

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:19:25PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:49:31 -0600
> Billy Biggs <vektor at dumbterm.net> wrote:
> 
> >   Interlaced video is designed to be played on a device with the exact
> > refresh rate of the signal, it's true.  Telecine is not a 'hack', it is
> > really quite simple.  The property that people get confused by is just
> > interlaced video, and inverse telecine is pretty funky if you treat the
> > input as a sequence of frames and not fields.
> 
> Interlacing has nothing to do with telecine!

IMO it does. Both only make sense with an interlaced-refresh display
device.

Rich