[mythtv-users] CBS/NBC 1080i and telecine

[Yeechang Lee]

Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> says:
> One of the things that drove me nuts about MythTV when I used it (in
> the 0.19 days) was my CBS (and now NBC) stations' handling of
> interlacing.

Since you are willing to patch/compile,
<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/376812#376812>,
then
<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/376922#376922>

> 2) If I were to get an Ion, I'd want to use VDPAU.  Will the 
> deinterlacing be done entirely in hardware, insulating me from
> this issue, or will it still happen?  I can't (easily) see for myself,
> as I don't currently have an Nvidia card which supports VDPAU.

This issue exists regardless of VDPAU. Deinterlacing isn't the issue,
per se, but as you noted the constant flipping back and forth between
(what mythfrontend thinks is) interlaced and progressive content.

I cannot speak for other MythTV distributions, but the 'bijou'
0.21-fixes packages in ATrpms' testing repository for Fedora and
RHEL/CentOS contains both the above patches and backported VDPAU
support.

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