[MPlayer-users] mencoder video card recommendation

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 05:59:01PM -0800, Jack wrote:
> Jack wrote:
> 
> >I would recommend grabbing raw, and encoding to HuffYUV in realtime.  
> >Anime fansubbers swear by it because it's pretty much lossless.  In my 
> >own experience, it only eats around 20% of the CPU on my Athlon XP 
> >1700.  I'll see if I get an example to show off.
> >-lt
> >
> So.  I made some samples, using my bt878 card (a $20 Leadtek Winfast 
> 2000).  You probably can't do much worse than this.   And, except for 
> some lavcdeint ugliness now and then, I think it looks pretty good.  You 
> will have to deal with the deinterlacing problem, though, either by 
> getting a card that does it for you (I have no idea which ones those 
> would be), or figuring out how to make the deinterlacing filter behave.  
> If you get that Canopus, hopefully you won't have to deal with this.

No, you just shouldn't deinterlace at all... Either leave it
interlaced or just capture a single field. But any of the
deinterlacers will produce bogus results. IMO the best is to leave it
interlaced and just watch it with pp=lb for now, and then enjoy
watching it at 50 or 60fps once G2 is usable. :)

Rich