deinterlacing

[mmarano]

we are using flix to encode many different source video formats. Is it going to cause a problem if I set the deinterlace filter for all videos? If the source video isn't interlaced, will I be introducing any problems in the output video?

thanks for your help.

[orionr]

I have the same question - some videos come to us in interlaced form. Will setting the deinterlace filter (FE2_ADAPTIVE_DEINTERLACE_MODE) to 3 (Adaptive) affect all videos or only those that are interlaced?

[orionr]

Straight from On2 FLIX support:

The Adaptive Deinterlace mode 3 should auto-detect if the source is
interlaced, so setting FE2_ADAPTIVE_DEINTERLACE_MODE = 3 should be fine.
More information on this will be added to future version of the
documentation.

However, when you add the Deinterlace filter to the code, make sure that
it is added in the code after the SCALE filter, if you have one. This
is because of a bug in Engine 8.0.10.0 which causes the deinterlace and
scale filters to be applied in code order, even though the scale filter
should always be applied before the deinterlace filter. This bug will
be fixed in the next version.