Re: How do I select a deinterlacing method?

I demand that Ken Arromdee may or may not have written...

> There are three different places to choose a deinterlacing method:
> gui tab, deinterlace plugin
> video tab, deinterlace method (deprecated)
> postprocess/chain reaction/tvtime

> I have no idea whatsoever which one of these I'm supposed to use.  I've
> been using the first one, but there's no list of methods to choose from.

Easiest should be the postprocessing chain; it should be equivalent to
gui.deinterlace_plugin (as it would be in gxine were the option also visible
via the prefs window).

video.output.xv_deinterlace_method is deprecated, and will be missing if
you're using the xine-lib development branch.

> Moreover, the lists of methods on the video tab and in tvtime are different
> from each other.

This is expected.

> I'm hoping someone can tell me:
[snip]
> -- what do the methods do?  The names of some are not obvious, and even the
> ones whose names look obvious don't really make sense.  Bob is not what is
> normally called bob, and I would think that "weave" and "none" would be
> equivalent.

There's help text, at least for tvtime and pp.

> -- It looks to me like picking deinterlacing through tvtime doesn't respect
> using "i" to enable and deinterlacing.  Is that correct?

WRT xine-ui, I couldn't say.

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