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

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 12/31/05, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.

I updated my mirror. You can find the updated version here:
http://tuxrip.free.fr//MPlayer-DOCS-HTML/en/tv-input.html

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