[MPlayer-users] deinterlacing quality issues

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi!

Andrew Henry <adhenry <at> bredband.net> writes:

> Im having major issues trying to deinterlace the movie.  It is a home
> video and during motion there are heavy interlacing artefacts, so I
> tried using -vf kerndeint, and this works, but at a substantial loss in
> quality compared to if I omit this option.  I have tried -vf pp=ci and
> pp=ac but these do not seem to deinterlace whatsoever.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions fow how best to deinterlace a rawdv file?

kerndeint is usually not the best solution.
Try -vf yadif (it supports different options, see man page)

Also look at
http://guru.multimedia.cx/deinterlacing-filters/

Carl Eugen