On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:41:56AM -0000, Joni Kähärä wrote: > > Is there any way to deinterlace the TV picture? I've found a > > software like > > this for Windows and it's GNU, I think that they don't have no > > one to port it > > The interlace effect comes from the fact that each frame is sent > in two fields, even and odd. Normal video cameras sample the image > twice for each frame. So, object moving in the image has moved > between these fields and this causes 'comb' artifacts. TV-studios > use more expensive cameras that sample the whole frame just once > and therefore you do not see any combing. You have to buy this > type of camera, I think. Or grab every second field and strech > 2x in Y-direction, which is ugly. I believe the original poster is referring to the DScaler project (http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/). No special camera required. This application for Win32 does just what the original poster wants. It's essentially a line-doubler (or multiplier) similar to what standalone devices in home theaters and such do.
