[MPlayer-users] which deinterlace filter

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:18:14AM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:02:20 +0200
> Matthias Czapla <dermatsch at gmx.de> wrote:
> > There are several
> > deinterlacing filters in mplayer/mencoder like -vop lavcdeint and I
> > just want to know which one a more experienced user would recommend.
> 
> I'll offer my experience.
> 
> 'md' is quite good for the most part.  The two drawbacks I've seen are
> that solid lines (as in animation) end up rough, rather than smooth. 
> The second problem is that solid vertical lines (like can often be found
> with some letters in fairly small text on the screen) can become
> checkered, and even show some movement.  I haven't been experiencing the
> latter problem in a while now, so I assume there has been a
> fix integrated in mplayer-1.x.
> 
> 'lb' is better, as it doesn't have the problems listed above, but it has
> some of it's own.  It needs both fields to match-up, exactly, so it is
> quite prone to producing 'ghosts' either if your interlacing isn't
> perfect, or if you have a telecine signal that the detelecining filter
> doesn't fix 100%.

Agree.

> 'pullup' seems to be the best of both, IMHO.   The only problem I've
> had is, if you don't have a very clean video signal (something other
> than a DVD) pullup will tend to still leave some interlaced video.

Pullup is inverse telecine, not deinterlacing. Anyway, could you
please post some example captures (telecined content) where it leaves
interlaced frames to mphq or somewhere else I can access? So far I'm
not aware of this happening, so I'd like to look at what's causing it.

Rich