[MPlayer-dev-eng] Interlaced MPEG streams

[Billy Biggs]

Kim Minh Kaplan (kaplan at kim-minh.com):

> I recently tried to encode a movie that looks like interlaced MPEG
> (Dune).  This is a 25fps movie but each frame is plit in two parts.
> [...]
> 
> You can find a small chapter of the movie at
> <URL:http://kloug.dyndns.org/~kmkaplan/dune-chapter-10.mpg> if you
> want to see what I mean...

  This is definitely 25fps content encoded with each frame marked as
Interlaced.  Detecting this will require image heuristics (oh so sad, if
only all DVDs would use the flags correctly), or you can put in a flag
when the user is smarter than the DVD.

  Sorry, I don't know about mplayer enough to know what you should do,
but I can confirm at least that much.

-- 
Billy Biggs
vektor at dumbterm.net