[MPlayer-users] Question on converting to DivX4...

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:03:54PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:59:07 -0500
> Jeff Clagg <snacky at ikaruga.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > tfields is very valuable for deinterlacing high-motion content. With
> > any other deinterlacing method, motion is sometimes left so chunky
> > looking that it can be hard to follow what's going on.
> 
> I think you might be talking about mplayer's [problem] of not being
> threaded.

No, this has absolutely nothing to do with threads. Stop trolling for
threads.

> Or do you still have the problem if you playback something
> that was deinterlaced and re-encoded?

Of course you still have this problem. "Deinterlacing" in the stupid
definition most people use means "throwing away every other field" so
of course the motion will look choppy.

> Though I've watched plenty of fast-motion videos, I've never had a
> problem following what was going on with any deinterlacer...

Of course you don't have a problem following what's going on. But
you've made beautiful 60fps motion into shitty choppy 30fps motion.

Rich