[MPlayer-users] Re: Crop before deinterlacing OK?

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 07:40:10PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:12:54 +0200
> Matthias Wieser <mwieser at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I am the only one who does not like pp=lb 
> > because of this effect:
> 
> No, you're definately in the majority.  I seem to be almost the only
> person around here using pp=lb.
> 
> The ghosting looks dramatic in still images, but it doesn't bother me
> much at 30fps (except VERY fast scrolling text, which is rare).

What do you mean by still images? Pausing during a high-motion scene?
If so I mostly agree. By the way it's also worth noting that the
ghosts from pp=lb probably compress very poorly.

> Conversely, the artifacts (like aliasing) that you get with kerndeint
> look fine in a still, but look horrible in-motion (to me at least).

Aliasing is also there with pp=lb. It does not reduce it at all. No
linear filtering can EVER reduce aliasing.

Rich