neily
17th April 2002, 23:17
Hi,
Just as a point of interest does anyone know whether when encoding interlaced video the fields are separated and encoded separately, or whether the interlaced stream bit just tells the decoder to do something to the stream depending on the output device? From a compression point of view it certainly seems sensible to separate the fields.
As an aside, I have been using DivX to archive stuff (i.e. not for direct play back but for later conversion to other more playable formats) with all the deinterlace problems inherent, but was considering experimenting with separating the fields into two streams + audio as a means of improving quality. Anyone else tried?
Just as a point of interest does anyone know whether when encoding interlaced video the fields are separated and encoded separately, or whether the interlaced stream bit just tells the decoder to do something to the stream depending on the output device? From a compression point of view it certainly seems sensible to separate the fields.
As an aside, I have been using DivX to archive stuff (i.e. not for direct play back but for later conversion to other more playable formats) with all the deinterlace problems inherent, but was considering experimenting with separating the fields into two streams + audio as a means of improving quality. Anyone else tried?