[MPlayer-users] Frame interpolation

[Phil Rhodes]

> A computer first would have to be able to recognize objects, then use that
> information to analyze how they are moving an where their borders are and
> then it still must make up the parts that are not visible in either frame

There are TVs out there which do it fairly convincingly, if such a thing can 
ever be convincing. It's also a technique common to special effects tools 
like ReVision FX's Twixtor, which is designed to produce slow motion effects 
from footage filmed at normal rates. If you think about it, it's pretty much 
the same technique used by motion compensated video codecs, so code to do 
the critical bits of it is available. Yes, of course, it does fail in 
certain circumstances, and special effects software designed to do this sort 
of thing usually includes tools for manual intervention on problem material.

It's still a pretty horrible idea from the perspective of watching a movie, 
though.

P