[MEncoder-users] Trimming video

[Pete Davis]

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:26:30PM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
> > As for Rich's question about why pullup and pp=md, that was based on
> this
> > page:
> >
> > http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/mplayer/tests/deinttest2/readme.html
> 
> This person is smoking crack. Most likely they captured the video with
> a bttv card that ruins the chroma, or did some messed up cropping
> prior to encoding. Do you have a contact email for this person so I
> can let them know what they're doing wrong and ask them to take down
> the misleading recommendations?
> 

No idea. I just came across it in a google search.

> > And I have to say, the result sure seem better than pullup by itself. I
> 
> That's because their content is broken. Pullup is not helping at all
> -- pp=md alone would have done just as well for their purpose.
> 

I haven't tried pp=md alone. I'll see how that works out.

> > don't really understand how the filters operate, but like I tried pullup
> by
> > itself and pullup with pp=md and it was much nicer.
> 
> Then this means pullup is not working on your content. Probably it's
> not telecined material!!!
> 

No, it's not telecined. 

> > I'm encoding mpegs that are coming straight from my Hauppauge PVR 150.
> (cat
> > /dev/video > myfile.mpg)
> 
> Yes, but is it 60i video or telecined 24p movie?
> 

I'm not sure what 60i or 24p are. It's definitely interlaced because without
any filters, if I pause during movement, the interlacing is very obvious.
It's 29.97 frames/sec.

Pete