[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] suggested change for tfields=1

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:32:31AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> tfields=1 currently checks each sample against the one above and below
> and if the current sample is the largest or smallest of the 3 then it is
> replaced by a interpolation of pixels from the lines above and below
> 
> attached patch changes this hard switching to a soft one to avoid some
> artifacts in some videos (no it still flickers like hell on many parts)
> 
> btw, note, one possible improvement would be to compare each sample against
> the past frame and only if that is quite diffrent perform any spatial
> checks, but i was too lazy to try this 

tfields=1 is known to suck. Feel free to takeover maintaining it if
you like. I lost interest because it resulted in movies that required
way too much bitrate and cpu for my taste.

Rich