Dar?o Mart?n <dariomartin <at> gmail.com> writes: > mencoder original.dv -of lavf -lavfopts format=dv -ofps 25 -vf > il=d:d,scale=:432,il=i:i,expand=:576,harddup -oac pcm -ovc lavc > -lavcopts vcodec=dvvideo:format=411p:ildct -o converted.dv > > However I get some strange artifacts when I play it in a interlaced display. While I believe you are using the il filter correctly, you should consider de-interlacing with yadif, that might improve quality overall. Apart from that, are you setting video-bitrate somewhere? Or doesn't this work with dvvideo? And what about 411p - isn't that the worst colour space? Carl Eugen