[MPlayer-users] Feature request- Intermediate images

[Phil Rhodes]

> Please, tell me what you think!

OK.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

It takes quite a bit for me to use typographical robustness like that, so 
allow me to elaborate:

Frame rate is an artistic choice. OK, we're limited to some extent by 
technology, what the broadcast networks can do, but even in theatrical 
motion picture work you can now do digital projection and those standards 
include high frame rate stuff up to 48Hz. The amount of grief recently gone 
through to obtain video cameras that can shoot cinematic-looking images at 
24fps is enormous.

Second-guessing this is rather akin to retouching someone's much-worked-on 
painting.

There are many reasons to develop an open-source motion compensation 
algorithm, for which the approach of motion-compensated codecs like h.264 
might be a model. However, interpolating movies is not one of them. It might 
be an interesting to apply it to anime, or something like that, but they 
tend to be frame doubled anyway and it would have to be very careful to 
separate out fully-animated areas of the frame that were affected by DVE 
moves, and the hand animation that generally only runs 8-12fps at best.

Making 24p video look like it was shot and reproduced at 100fps is cheap and 
horrible and awful.

P