[MPlayer-users] new version of detc filter! (inverse telecine)

[gabor]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:07, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I just committed it. Please send any comments to the list here.
> 

tried it with flcl dvd 1,
works well with  mplayer and with mencoder-ofps23.976 too..

sometimes when there is something VERY highmotion (like an explosion),
then for like half a second you can see the interlaced frames.

i haven't tested the params of detc.. if you want me/us to test some
parameters, just ask.

gabor

> Rich
> 
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:51:06PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > In the next couple days I'll be committing a greatly improved version
> > of the de-telecine (detc) filter. Some of the big advantages of the
> > new design include:
> > 
> > 1. Much better handling of irregular telecine patterns. The old code
> >    tried to find a telecine frame and then stick to a fixed pattern of
> >    2 telecine/3 progressive as long as possible. Thus, it absolutely
> >    choked on weird telecine patterns, where video was spliced after
> >    telecine was applied -- or even worse, where frames were dropped or
> >    duplicated post-telecine to adjust the speed. The new code is much
> >    more adaptive, constantly trying to catch and resync to telecine
> >    frames and only using the 2/3 pattern when there's too little
> >    motion to identify which frames are the bad ones.
> > 
> > 2. Nonreliance on absolute thresholds. The old code had a lot of hard
> >    coded threshold numbers used to detect whether a frame is
> >    interlaced/telecine, and while these numbers worked fairly well for
> >    my test material (SE Lain), they might not have worked well at all
> >    for other stuff, especially live realworld footage. The new code
> >    only uses a few threshold parameters for special situations, and
> >    those can probably eventually be removed.
> > 
> > 3. Better metrics for determining presence of interlacing. The old
> >    ones could severely underestimate interlacing in areas with
> >    significant horizontal noise.
> > 
> > Overall, this code seems to be working much better on my test
> > material (still SE Lain). At this point I'm mostly happy with it, but
> > I'm still planning to work on a 2pass version soon, based on the new
> > algorithms. The benefits of 2pass telecine removal will include
> > avoiding false positives by examining future material (prevents
> > excessive frame dropping), realtime telecine removal in mplayer for
> > use with DVDs and SVCDs (so you don't have to reencode first), and
> > resilience to mencoder's bad behavior (nonsense frame skipping and
> > duplication that makes detecting telecine harder).
> > 
> > I'll post again in a few days once I put some finishing touches on the
> > code and commit it. After that, I'd appreciate it if some users with
> > telecined files/discs could test and see if it's fully working! Also
> > I'd appreciate some before-and-after testing to make sure there are no
> > cases where the old (current) version works better than the new code
> > I'm about to commit!
> 
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