[MPlayer-users] Little patch (or hack?) to play deinterlaced DVDs from gmplayer

[Eric Potter]

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 11:45, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:25:20PM -0500, Guillaume Pratte wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am sharing this little patch I use with gmplayer to be able to play DVDs 
> > deinterlaced. I have no intent to propose this for official inclusion into 
> > mplayer, but it may be usefull to others.
> > 
> > Diff is made against latest CVS version.
> 
> Hmm, I doubt this is a good idea for your own use even, unless all
> your DVD's are from television shows. Most movie DVD's are not
> interlaced...
> 
> Rich
> 
Many if not most of the movie DVD's I have seen have a quick scene
change or two that IS interlaced.  You can also see this on mplayer's
output.