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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:41:55AM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:04:39PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:30:31PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:03:05PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > > Hello!
> > > > 
> > > > It would be nice if mplayer would print if the input video is interlaced or
> > > > progressive.. or is there already some option that does this (I couldn't
> > > > find).
> > > 
> > > Where do you expect it to find this information??
> > > 
> > 
> > From video I'm playing? mplayer would print this information like all the
> > other info about video (resolution, bitrate, etc).
> 
> Except that the information isn't there to print.
> 

Hmm.. I thought MPEG and AVI files have this kind of information in the
headers.. ?

> > for example flaskmpeg (under windows) shows this.. and other tools too.
> 
> By decoding the video and guessing. Not acceptable.
> 

Ok.. then it's a problem.

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