[MPlayer-users] Interleaving artefacts when capturing from TV

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:59:06AM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:34:19 -0600
> Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Deinterlacing won't reduce your CPU usage. It'll increase it.
> 
> I'd have to see some benchmarks before I'd believe that.  pp=lb uses up
> a tiny ammount of CPU-time, and it significantly reduces the
> bitrate/size for the same quality level, so I have to expect it will use
> less CPU-time overall.

I agree. However deinterlacing is _wrong_ unless you use tfields
(which will be very slow). You'll save a lot more cpu time and space
by just using -vf field=0 or setting the video capture device to
single-field, and get less artifacts that way too.

Rich