CVS change done by Guillaume Poirier CVS Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv16051/DOCS/xml/en Modified Files: tvinput.xml Log Message: Add Rich's advice posted on the thread: Date: Dec 16, 2005 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] How to tell if the video input is interlaced or not? Index: tvinput.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml,v retrieving revision 1.14 retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 --- tvinput.xml 1 Sep 2005 23:53:57 -0000 1.14 +++ tvinput.xml 31 Dec 2005 19:16:14 -0000 1.15 @@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ <listitem> <para> -If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than half of -the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), make sure you turned -deinterlacing on. Otherwise you'll get a movie which is distorted during +If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than half +of the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), then the +'frames' you get will really be interleaved pairs of fields. +Depending on what you want to do with the video you may leave it in +this form, destructively deinterlace, or break the pairs apart into +individual fields. +</para> +<para> +Otherwise you'll get a movie which is distorted during fast-motion scenes and the bitrate controller will be probably even unable to retain the specified bitrate as the interlacing artifacts produce high amount of detail and thus consume lot of bandwidth. You can enable