[mythtv-users] when to deinterlace?

[Jesse Guardiani]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 1:46 am, you wrote:
> On 2/5/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
> > I've seen a lot of talk about deinterlace settings.
> > I've tried turning it on a few times with different
> > options, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
> 
> What's your setup? I'm running 0.18 on Gentoo and I found that simply
> selecting the "deinterlace playback" option in the frontend settings
> didn't do anything, regardless of what deinterlacer I chose. To get
> deinterlace to work I had to specify a deinterlacer in the "custom
> filters" box. I'm using "kerneldeint" there at the moment. Have you
> tried that?

Just did. No change. Thanks for the tip though.
Yes, I'm running 0.18.1 on Gentoo as well.


> I'm now outputting to a plasma TV, but even when I was using a CRT TV
> I found that deinterlacing improved output, especially for sport.
> Theoretically I shouldn't have needed to deinterlace with that TV, but
> in practice I never found the right combination of capture settings,
> video card settings and X modelines to get it to work perfectly with
> an interlaced picture.

I guess my settings are fine on my TV. But at least I know what to do
when I upgrade to an LCD TV. :)


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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net