[mythtv-users] Expensive de-interlacing while transcoding?

[William Munson]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 8/30/06, list at onnow.net <list at onnow.net> wrote:
>   
>> Quoting Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>:
>>
>>     
>>> On 8/30/06, Graeme Wilford <gwilford at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I've followed a few threads that mentioned this but none appeared to
>>>> have a working config.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to perform expensive/high-quality de-interlacing while
>>>> transcoding to avoid using the quick realtime de-interlacing
>>>> algorithms in mythfrontend? Or maybe even just de-interlacing w/o size
>>>> or format conversion while transcoding?
>>>>
>>>> Of course, the FE would still de-int LiveTV and non-transcoded
>>>> material but would notice that transcoded material was already
>>>> de-interlaced and just render it as progressive...
>>>>
>>>> I'm using 0.19-fixes.
>>>>         
>>> 0.20 will let you customize the transcode line to use better or a
>>> combination of filters.
>>>
>>> IVTC may also be a better option depending on the source material.
>>>       
>> Excellent.  Looks like .20 is going to have some great features.  I
>> see only 22 tickets left in svn.  Maybe a release soon?
>>     
>
> Isaac has instated a feature freeze asked those on the dev list to put
> it under heavy testing now, so yes, "soon".
>
>   
 From my testing, its stable enough to put into general user testing 
too. Just remember to back things up first :)