[MPlayer-users] show interlaced/progressive info..

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:27:31PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Donnerstag, 13. November 2003 15:41 schrieb D Richard Felker III:
> 
> > By decoding the video and guessing. Not acceptable.
> 
> Acceptable

Even if the guessing part were acceptable, the decoding part isn't.
You can't go and decode a big block of video at startup just to print
information. It's way too costly in startup time and messes up the
flow of the program entirely (not to mention what happens if your
input isn't seekable!).

> because mplayer/mencoder can sometimes better guess if a video 
> is interlaced than a human eye.

It can? Would you care to show me how?

BTW, you should always assume TV captures are interlaced unless you're
sure the original came from film or animation.

Rich