[MPlayer-users] Re: inverse telecine... not

[Jason Lunz]

bcboy at thecraftstudio.com said:
> Is there more to the "inverse telecine" noted in the Changelog than the fps fix in 
> libmpdemux/video.c? Because that doesn't actually do inverse telecine at all.
> 
> It looks like mplayer only correctly plays NTSC film dvds that are not
> telecined, and the "telecine" detection in video.c is actually a "not telecine"
> detection -- it detects when a NTSC dvd has NOT been telecined, and thus the
> fps must be adjusted to 24.
> 
> Telecined dvds remain interlaced in mplayer, AFAIK.
> 
> I'm currently checking out the transcode telecine support, which appears to
> do the right thing, reconstructing the film frames from the telecine fields.

You're right. Rich Felker is currently working on a _true_ inverse
telecine filter; see his recent posts on -devel. I imagine he could use
your help with testing.

Jason