[MPlayer-users] Digital camcoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:07:59PM +0100, José FC wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > > Smoother? IMO it looks horrible because all the edges are jagged from
> > > > interlacing. This is especially bad when watching sports. Yes it's
> > > > temporally smoother, but spacially it has extremely un-smooth
> > > > artifacts.
> > >
> > > Can you tell me a TV that shows "jagged edges from interlacing"?
> >
> > Any standard old CRT. Obviously it doesn't look like combing on a
> > progressive monitor, but it still looks jagged and bad.
> >
> > > You don't mean 100Hz TVs or LCD TVs?
> >
> > Nope, never used one.
> >
> > > > I'm quite familiar with it all, and interlacing is simply not
> > > > acceptable. Even on a true interlaced display it looks very bad.
> > >
> > > Your TV must be defect if you see interlacing.
> >
> > No, your eyes must be defect if you don't...
> >
> > Rich
> 
> This thread is very interesting...
> 
> I hate interlacing, but I had never care about it when I was watching TV... 
> until today. It's so baaad! I didn't notice it when I didn't know what to 
> look, but now I can see a lot of jagged edges. And my TV is a new, good 29" 
> flat Trinitron.

Sorry... :((

Rich