[MPlayer-users] MENCODER: AuDIO OF SYNC when recording from TV

[Jindrich Makovicka]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
>>>No, you don't have to deinterlace since it is exactly half PAL height and
>>>the interlacing effect is eliminated automatically then.
>>
>>Ugh!!?? Wh.. what are you telling me, that I deinterlaced till now, loosing 
>>much video quality, all for nothing? Godness me, please confirm! If this is 
>>true, I will have to adjust some scripts...
> 
> 
> No, deinterlacing loses the same quality that dropping to 288 height
> does. BTW, if you only want 288 height, why not just capture 288 lines
> to begin with??? That way you only get one field, and there's no need
> for any resizing. It will make encoding a lot faster.

If you have a decent machine, it can be better to capture whole PAL 
resolution and rescale, just because it's more resistant to noise. The 
downside of scaling to 1/2 without deinterlacing are the resulting 
"ghosts" behind moving objects (as with linear blend deint.). If it is a 
real 50fps interlaced material, median deinterlacer+scale to 1/2 PAL 
would be my choice.

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Jindrich Makovicka