[MPlayer-users] Interlaced TV-OUT

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Fabio Papa wrote:
> Hi list,
> I just wanted some advice on a graphic card that has nice support for TV out 
> in linux, with interlaced out capability. 
> I already owe a card that has tv out capabilities in linux (ati radeon 9000 
> pro), but outputs horrible interlaced images; I'm able to see the horizontal 
> lines on my TV set.
> What's the best option to have interlaced videos on the TV out?
> Thanks!

Make sure you're running at the native resolution (480 lines for NTSC
or 576 for PAL) so that no vertical scaling of the movie takes place.
Then it will mostly work, aside from some glitches due to timer drift.
(The player should sync to vblank rather than audio for interlaced
content!)

Rich