[MPlayer-users] Horizontal lines

[Giacomo Comes]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:50:58PM +0100, kunt1z wrote:
> Giacomo Comes ha scritto:
> 
> >On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:12:14PM +0100, kunt1z wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hi guys,
> >>this is my first post in this list. I've got a problem using mplayer: 
> >>when I see video files in full screen, I can see some fastidious 
> >>horizontal lines around the shapes. But, if there is an instance of 
> >>mplayer interrupted, the lines magically disappear!
> >>Here's an example:
> >>
> >>1)
> >>$mplayer test.avi    ===>    lines
> >>
> >>2)
> >>#/etc/init.d/artsd start   ===>   block /dev/dsp
> >>$mplayer test.avi   ===>   mplayer doesn't start because the /dev/dsp 
> >>device is blocked by arts daemon.
> >>Then I open a new shell and close the old one because is blocked by 
> >>mplayer. In the new shell:
> >>#killall artsd   ===>   release /dev/dsp
> >>$mplayer test.avi   ===>   no lines, it also says that the /dev/rtc file 
> >>is blocked (by previous mplayer instance)
> >>If I kill the previous instance of mplayer (the one blocked), when I 
> >>start a video files the lines appears again.
> >>
> >>These horizontal lines appears ALWAYS around shapes in movement when I 
> >>see DVD.
> >>
> >
> >What you see here is the effect of interlaced and/or telecined video.
> >It's absolutely normal and not a mplayer's problem.
> >If you use a deinterlacer filter you should remove the effect.
> >See the option -vf in the man page.
> >
> Could you tell me a filter to use? Thanx!
> 
-vf pp=fd

Giacomo