poll to get people's opinions

[NeVeRLiFt]

If your videocapturing or encoding movies for view on your TV, or ripping DVD's to be viewed on the TV be it Mpeg4(DivX3.11a/XviD/DivX5.02) or Mpeg2(SVCD/XSVCD/DVD).... be it using TV-out are your DVD-unit to watch them.
Do you leave the video interlaced?
I always deinterlace or inverse telecine if needed and the way I deinterlace does not effect playback(jerkiness) and it does not effect quality(not enough to notice on the TV anyway)

So give me opinions yes or no.



Watching interlaced video's on my TV that where using a 512x384 or 640x480 res using TV-out...
I noticed where the interlaced artifacts where during the video's playback on my monitor they where not as noticable on the TV and infact it's more a fuzzy/blurring effect... say around a face or hand. Maybe even something else?

Our TV's use 70yr old tech and thats why we have interlacing and thats why DVD's use it. Not for quality.


The poll should read:
YES I deinterlace.
NO I leave it interlaced.

[doaa]

Hi,
I also de-interlace, don't notice any problems via TV-out and it looks better on monitor too:)

[unixguru]

I set whatever the original was set to - mostly NTSC Progressive (non-interlace)

[sh0dan]

The question cannot be made this simple - and shouldn't.

When encoding VCD, obviously, yes.

When encoding SVCD, yes, because it saves bitrate, giving better quality at the cost of more jerkiness. If the source isn't interlaced (Telecine film or progressive film), no interlace.

When encoding DVD, no - if your source already have interlacing, you get more smooth motion. When doing DV->DVD transcoding, or captures, just leave it interlaced. If the source is from film, leave it progressive (at least here in PAL world).

When encoding XviD / whatever for your computer, yes, always deinterlace.

[unixguru]

I don't really see a quality difference either way.
The key is in the encoding tools used and how you tweak the
bit rate, IPB, encode method, etc... not the interlace.