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

[gabor]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:37:53PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:16:58PM +0000, Jason Lunz wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 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.
> 
> I think I'll go ahead and commit it to CVS soon, but with the
> understanding that it might change a good bit over the next few weeks,
> including in ways that make it incompatible with old options syntax,
> etc. That way users can actually test it and see if it works.

:)


btw. (maybe stupid) .. how can i know if my dvd was telecined?

thanks,
gabor