[MPlayer-users] Re: anime encoding (VHS tape)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:33:46PM -0600, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
> Now, about worrying about telecined anime: he's going from a VCR to a  
> TV Capture Card to an AVI file is my guess, so it would be a normal  
> interlaced stream, I highly doubt telecine is going to come into play  
> here. Deinterlacing it shouldn't do any damage.

yes it does. stop talking nonsense about stuff you don't know. anime
is NEVER INTERLACED, ALWAYS TELECINED. DO NOT USE A DEINTERLACER!!

[actually some anime is totally progressive, but it's very rare.
however, the never-interlaced thing is entirely true. no one would be
stupid enough to draw animation cells at 60 fps.]

i'm sorry for yelling but i get really mad when people give ignorant
advice about stuff they don't understand.

rich