[MPlayer-users] Digital camcoder

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2003 15:56 schrieb D Richard Felker III:

> > Ever wondered why normal TV looks so much smoother (when looking high
> > motion programs.. for example sports which are captured using
> > tv-cameras) than for example Mplayer playing from tv-card? It's
> > because tv displays at 50 fps.. and mplayer only at 25.
>
> Smoother? IMO it looks horrible because all the edges are jagged from
> interlacing. This is especially bad when watching sports. Yes it's
> temporally smoother, but spacially it has extremely un-smooth
> artifacts.

Can you tell me a TV that shows "jagged edges from interlacing"?

You don't mean 100Hz TVs or LCD TVs?

> I'm quite familiar with it all, and interlacing is simply not
> acceptable. Even on a true interlaced display it looks very bad.

Your TV must be defect if you see interlacing.


Cu, Matthias