[MPlayer-users] watching 576i (interlaced) video

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:55:40PM +1000, Peter Zelezny wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:33:54 +1000
> Peter Zelezny <peterzelezny at dodo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I suppose the problem comes down to the fact that it's (mplayer) generating
> > 25fps progressive frames, from 50 field/sec video. Has anybody thought about
> > trying to generate 50fps from such a source? Being able to perceive a change
> > in the image once every 1/50s should "feel" better than 25fps, even though
> > only every 2nd line can change.
> 
> Doh... I guess I'll answer my own question.
> 
> 	-vf tfields=4
> 
>        tfields[=mode]
>               Temporal  field  separation - split fields into frames, doubling
>               the output framerate.  Like the telecine  filter,  tfields  will
>               only work properly with MEncoder, and only if both -fps and -of-
>               ps are set to the desired (double) framerate!   Available  modes
>               are:
> 
> That is a little misleading, I thought it was only possible with
> mencoder and not mplayer.

it does. if it happens to work with mplayer it's a bug in mplayer.. :)

rich