[FFmpeg-devel] Feature request

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/17/17, Ben Hutchinson <benhut1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to deinterlace a video by converting full-height
> frames into half-height fields (where each frame of the output represents
> one field of the input) at double the frame rate. The way this would work
> is it would take the top field (or bottom field) first and export it as the
> first frame in the output file, and then take the next field of the input
> and output it as the second frame in the output file. Then it moves on to
> the first field of the second input frame, and outputs this as the 3rd
> frame of the output. And this continues until the output file has twice as
> many frames as the input, at half the height of the input, and runs at
> twice the frame rate as the input.
> For example:
> Input Frame1 Field1 ----> Output Frame1
> Input Frame1 Field2 ----> Output Frame2
> Input Frame2 Field1 ----> Output Frame3
> Input Frame2 Field2 ----> Output Frame4
>
>
> I would also like to be able to do the reverse of this, take a video file
> who's frames represent fields, and then interlace them so that they
> actually are fields within frames in the output video, and at the same time
> cut the frame rate in half.
> For example:
> Input Frame1 ----> Output Frame1 Field1
> Input Frame2 ----> Output Frame1 Field2
> Input Frame3 ----> Output Frame2 Field1
> Input Frame4 ----> Output Frame2 Field2

Already done via separatefields and weave filters.