[MPlayer-users] How to tell if the video input is interlaced or not?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 12/31/05, Jouni.Lohikoski at iki.fi <jlohikos at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:51:42PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9003225&forum_id=34082
> >
> > Disable support for the TV card in the X server by removing the v4l
> > module. Then X should not interfere with it.
>
> What is the v4l module in X server?
> I have these modules in xorg.conf:
> "
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "dri"
> EndSection
> "
>
> > It's stupid advice. It should say: "If you capture the video with the
> > vertical resolution higher than half of the full resolution (i.e. 288
> > for PAL or 240 for NTSC), then the 'frames' you get will really be
> > interleaved pairs of fields. Depending on what you want to do with the
> > video you may leave it in this form, destructively deinterlace, or
> > break the pairs apart into individual fields."
>
> Thanks!
> Now it makes sense also why to grab in 25 FPS and still do deinterlacing.
>
> I hope this better explanation makes it to MPlayer documentation to
> tv-input.html. Now the old one is still there:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html

Ok, I added Rich's advise to CVS. It probably won't show up on
official MPlayerhq website, but I'll update the mirror:
http://tuxrip.free.fr//MPlayer-DOCS-HTML/en/ when I get home.

Happy New Year!

Guillaume
--
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
    Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

MPlayer's doc is offline. Find some fresh one here:
http://tuxrip.free.fr//MPlayer-DOCS-HTML/en/
http://tuxrip.free.fr//MPlayer-DOCS-HTML/fr/