[MPlayer-users] Horizontal lines around edges

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:04:39PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> >> I'm seeing horizontal lines around the edges of on-screen objects when
> >> they are in motion.  I've tried 3 DVDs and 2 clearly have the problem
> >> and 1 clearly does not.  What can I do about this?
> >
> >This is known as "telecine". Now that you know what to search for, there
> >are lots of discussions about it, here and elsewhere.
> 
> I tried -vf ivtc and it seems to clean up the artifacts by about
> 30%-40% but there are plenty left.  Is that because my CPU is not fast
> enough?
> 
> -vf ivtc also seems to negate the effects of -framedrop.  When I use
> both of them, the audio and video get out of sync like it does when
> I'm not using -framedrop.

ivtc does not work with framedropping. How do you expect it to analyze
video that never gets processed?

Rich