100fps: How to deinterlace Video the right way. Examples, Tricks, Comparisons

DivX and the Media player: Do yourself a favor and get a new player.

 

The standard windows media player is OK but lacks some features. You will see, when you get another player.

It's really strange, that the standard media player doesn't offer more functions for unproportional clips. Clips that have to be resized unproportianally during play are everywhere. Take your DV camcorder: It records 720x576 (=5:4) and is expecting you to resize it to 4:3, otherwise all heads are eggheads. Or take the standard format 352:240 and a lots of others. Well, get yourself a new player.

Here are a few examples, as captured from Digital Broadcasting:

   


Original: 528x576 (11:12=2.75:3)


needs to be resized to 4:3. This is a capture from the commercial for "Yam", a young girl's magazine (young and confused as you see, but she has style (and a wet T-shirt afterwards), so we shouldn't complain)



Original: 704x576 (11:9=3.666:3)


needs to be played 4:3. This is capture from the commercial for "Fa", a sweat stopper ("because you never know what can happen").

 


Original: 544x576 (17:18=2.8333:3)


needs to be played 4:3. This is Italian model "Lorena Ceriscioli" on "Fashion TV" as she adjusts her underwear for a photo shooting. 

 


Original: 720x576 (5:4=3.75:3)


needs to be resized to 4:3. This is a capture from a documentary about rhinos. (What else?)

 


Original: 544x576 (17:18=2.8333:3)


This TV channel has always black left and right borders, so you have to crop 16 pixel from the width first and THEN resize to 4:3 or you have to play it 11:8. This is a capture from the music clip "Untitled" from "D'Angelo" and if you look carefully at the pic, it's as "low" as current music art can get before they don't consider it art anymore.

 


Original: 720x576 (5:4=3.75:3)


needs to be played 16:9 (=5.333:3). This is a Russian woman translating 100fps.com to Russian and exporting it to PDF.
Just joking: She's preparing garlic.

 


Original: 480x576 (5:6=2.5:3)


needs to be played 4:3. This is a capture from the music clip "Kids" by "Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue". Since English performers are heavily suppressed in USA (Robbie Williams is English and Kylie Monogue is Australian), you may never have seen Kylie Minogue's wet and rosy lips. Even John Ashcroft would like them.

 


Original: 352x576 (11:18=1.833:3)


needs to be played 4:3. If you delete the huge black letterboxes to the top and bottom you finally get 352x304. If you consider, that a field is half the height of a frame you get 352x152. Modern TV quality. 


Original broadcast field size

DEEJAY TV is an Italian music channel, other Italian channels have a much better resolution. This is a capture from a commercial of the United Nations (fao.org). And by the way, it looks exactly like one of the last times you were buried, doesn't it?

 

These are just a few non-4:3 examples. In the internet, on DVDs, from broadcasting you'll find many more.

There are other drawbacks when using the standard Media Player, like: no playlists, no redefinable keys etc.

You have to decide for yourself whether to get a new player or not.

 

100fps: How to deinterlace Video the right way. Examples, Tricks, Comparisons