Hi all,

> On Friday, 13 June 2008 at  0:19, bugs buggy wrote:
>> I haven't done much with video stuff, but I used ffmpeg with a  
>> bitrate
>> of 2400K, and used the 'double sized' video (as in, it skips ever
>> other scanline to make the FMV appear bigger than it is), so while  
>> the
>
> Skip every other line means inserting black lines, or doubling the
> lines? Inserting black lines will increase the needed bitrate way too
> much (if you want to do that, rather do it after decoding the video),
> and doubling the lines won't really make it look different, will it?
> (And also can be done as post-processing, rather than eating bits
> unnecessarily.)

I agree here. Doing it in software *after* we have de-compressed the  
video is the way to go. A lot of games, however, did use this  
technique of adding in alternate black lines. Namely, early C&C and  
TA spring to mind. It does work.

Regards, Freddie.

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