interlace?

[Christophe Massiot]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001, Gildas Bazin wrote:

> VLC doesn't implement any option to improve the output quality of interlaced 
> videos.
> Basically you've got two solutions two improve the quality:
> * The cheap one which would be two discard one field, so lower the vertical 
> resolution.
> * The computer intensive one which would be to do some postprocessing on each 
> picture to smooth the interlace artefact.

Walken had a third solution. Doubling the stream frequency, and displaying
50/60 fps, so that every field can be displayed at the right time (instead
of 20 ms too early). With software YUV this is nearly impossible, but
with overlay support, why not ?

-- 
Christophe Massiot.