Re: "soft telecine"

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:55:09PM -0500, Arant, Wayne wrote:
> Sorry for all the wuestions on my first day.
> One last question for the day (probibly) If I have a "soft telecined"
> (i.e. video with the pullup flag, but not the actual frames/fields, Does
> FFMPEG honor that flag, and read the full 29.97. Does it ignore the
> flage (resulting in choppy video) or do something in between?
> If it does not honor it, is there a way to tell it to, or some equally
> acceptable alternative? (i.e. if I set my rate to 23.976 does it make it
> right, or do something weird)

libavcodec "honors" the flags in that decoded frames will have the
flag attached to them and whatever program uses lavc can do what it
likes with these flags. It will not interleave them into nasty
interlaced field-pairs for you, if that's what you want...

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Rich