[mythtv-users] Deinterlacing Methods

[David Faure]

On Saturday 13 January 2007, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> You will never get a perfect picture with a progressive display..
> [...]
> So your best option would probably be to feed the monitor a
> PAL signal without any deinterlacing 

I would like to be able to do that myself, but how?

I use the TV-out of an NVidia FX5200 video card, connected via SVideo to a real TV
(no flat panel or HDTV, just a normal Panasonic TV). I use the nvidia drivers and I make
X.org start on the TV output. Works fine, but playing movies shows fuzziness when people
move around, which seems to be a deinterlacing problem, and I'm fighting with deinterlacing 
methods (with mencoder or transcode), which never seem to work right on all movies...

=> how can I set the PAL signal that goes out of the videocard to be interlaced?
(this would be the right thing to do, right?)

PS: the PVR-350 always captures (from SCART input coming from TV or VCR) in interlaced mode, right?
I can't find a (linux) tool that would even tell me if a .mpg is interlaced or not...

Thanks for any help.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org