Hi All, After reading several tutorials on movie encoding and deinterlacing I still have a few questions. 1. I read a comment saying that if you encode for TV then you may leave the movie interlaced. What does it exactly mean to encode for TV? I have a 1080p LCD HDTV which I am driving with a computer. The refresh rate is 50Hz. Does the above comment refer to my situation? Should I prefer interlaced or noninterlaced videos (I can decide whether I deinterlace when I encode it so why would or wouldn't I do it?) 2. I crop the videos for encoding as recommended. So let us say that I end up with crop=1408:804:256:136. Should I scale the video as part of the encoding? If I do not scale, then the scaling has to be done at playback time. Does it make better sense to scale to something of which multiple is the screen resolution or I should not bother with that? With a 1080p display I could scale to: scale=-2:540 right? Until now I did not bother scaling for DVD-s but for OTA 1080i content I may opt for downscaling. So as another example: I need to crop to 1904:1072:10:0, so should I scale to 952:536 or 960:540 ? 3. A film (24fps orig) was shown OTA in 1080i. I cannot recognize the interlacing patterns for certain. It looks like PPIIIIPPIIII which does not resemble any documented pattern I found. I was so curious as to what the broadcaster did to this source that I asked it in email. Here is what I got: "Also, ALL programs on the HD channel are 1080i (interlaced). Programs that are not true HD are upconverted to 1080i with a high quality Snell and Wilcox upconverter." So could someone here give any advice on how to reencode such a source? Thanks, Matyas - Every hardware eventually breaks. Every software eventually works. _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
