[mythtv-users] deinterlacing test clip

[Dan Christensen]

Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca> wrote:
>
>     David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> writes:
>    
>     > I don't know if this helps or not, but the Prelinger Archives
>     > (http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger) have a lot of telecine content
>     > that's fallen into the public domain.  The quality of the source prints is
>     > often pretty lousy, but the MPEG2 files are at roughtly SDTV resolution
>     > and encoded at reasonable bitrates.
>    
>     Thanks, that could be useful.  But wouldn't fair use allow one to
>     include 5 to 10 second clips of copyrighted material?  Also, while
>     I think it's good to include SD content, HD content is probably
>     more important.
>
> Public domain means you don't have to consider use, fair or otherwise.

I realize that, but my point was that one shouldn't need to restrict
to public domain sources.  The above source is only SD and is said to
often be pretty lousy.

Dan