[MPlayer-users] Re: Detecting interlacing

[Matthias Wieser]

On 21. Februar 2006 01:01 Tony Houghton wrote:

> Is there a way to detect whether a video (in particular vdr recordings)
> is interlaced with something like mplayer -identify?

Unfortunately not.


> If I enable a deinterlacing filter anyway, will it just be ignored if
> the source isn't interlaced?

If you use a good deinterlacing filter (ToMoComp, Greedy,..), it will not 
harm non-interlaced videos. Unfortunately Mplayer does not have any good 
deinterlacing filter.

Regards,
  Matthias