[mythtv-users] Converting mpeg-TS from DVB card to vob

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 13:57:03 EST 2005


On Monday 19 December 2005 02:50, ffrr wrote:
> Nick wrote:
> >On 18/12/05, ffrr <ffrr at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> >>One question I have, is should I de-interlace the video, in fact, is it
> >>even interlaced to start with? This always confuses me!
> >
> >If you are intending to watch this on an interlaced display, keep it
> >interlaced. Regular SDTV transmissions (analogue and digital) are
> >normally interlaced (and all non-p modes in HDTV too). It also means
> >that no additional reencoding is required from the original video
> >stream.
> >
> >Nick
>
> Great, no extra work to do.
>
>  Are commercial DVD's all interlaced then.  I mean, do they assume they
> will be played back on interlaced display devices?

Early DVD's were, I believe now most DVD's are progressive and the player's 
output chips will do the required conversions for output over 
svideo/composite. 

-- 
Steve


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