On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Andre Pang wrote:
> like i said in my earlier e-mail, i've found that Xine (and every single
> other movie player on Linux so far) doesn't play interlaced DVDs very well.
I've found that too. One of these days I should delve into the source of one and
find out just what is so stressing about interlaced video.
> for whatever reason, most cartoon-style animation DVDs use interlaced
> encoding,
I think it's anything originally meant for TV is already in an interlaced format
and is encoded as such onto DVD. In my collection that's usually the
behind-the-scenes material or video clips. I've only got one anime DVD that's
from a TV series and that's interlaced. I haven't started my Neon Genesis
Evangelion DVD collection yet... :)
> i've tested Transformers and Macross Plus as examples of the interlaced DVDs
> so far, and they both show interlacing artefacts, which are visible as
> horizontal bands repeating down the screen (if you've seen it, you'll know
> what i'm talking about).
It sounds like your player isn't scaling the image properly.
> i've also tried XMovie and it's no better. and the LiViD stuff (omi/oms)
> runs at an absolute _crawl_ on my laptop, while I get full framerate in Xine
> with zero frames skipped.
Yeah, OMS is lagging at the moment compared to things like Xine and Xmovie. But
I guess they've been busy building up the infrastructure for a powerful and
flexible media player rather than rushing out a simple DVD player.
> i guess i'll have to wait for Xine 0.5 (xine cvs is broken for me at the
> moment).
None of the players have subtitle support yet do they? The last I heard, the
format had been (mostly) reverse-engineered. That'd be nice to have. Then the
last feature will be the scripting language that's used to make the menus and
other special features.
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