[FFmpeg-user] ntsc-dvd doesn't default to interlaced.

[Mike Brown]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 08:46:18AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Mike Brown <brown <at> mrvideo.vidiot.com> writes:
> > But... since pretty much all movies are placed on DVD as 
> > 23.976p, with pulldown flags, the DVD player will convert
> > the MPEG-2 to analog NTSC 2:3 output.
> 
> The world is not NTSC-only...

Sorry, I should have indicated stuff for Region 1.  The discussion has been
about 480i, so I didn't mention it.
> > Right.  But, you skip one of the guessing games instead 
> > of having two.
> 
> Depending on the definition of "guessing", I don't think 
> scaling counts as guessing, you simply have to choose one 
> of several algorithms.

Guessing may indeed be the incorrect word to use.  The point is why do it
twice.  Skip the middle step.

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