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authorwanderer <wanderer@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-08-15 22:46:27 +0000
committerwanderer <wanderer@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-08-15 22:46:27 +0000
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grammar/phrasing fixes on the recent NTSC and telecine commit
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@16230 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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@@ -63,14 +63,15 @@
presentation on a television, and often does
<emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> correspond to the
original format of the movie.
- Experience shows that NTSC contents are a lot more difficult to encode
- given that there more elements to identify in the source.
+ Experience shows that NTSC material is a lot more difficult to encode,
+ because there more elements to identify in the source.
In order to produce a suitable encode, you need to know the original
format.
- Failure to take this into account will result in ugly combing
- (interlacing) artifacts, duplicated or lost frames in your encode.
+ Failure to take this into account will result in various flaws in your
+ encode, including ugly combing (interlacing) artifacts and duplicated
+ or even lost frames.
Besides being ugly, the artifacts also harm coding efficiency:
- You will get worse quality per bitrate.
+ You will get worse quality per unit bitrate.
</para>
<sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-preparing-encode-fps">
@@ -1690,9 +1691,9 @@ Note the <option>ilmv</option> and <option>ildct</option> options.
</para>
<para>
- Another way to tell if your source is telecined or not is to watch the
- the source appending <option>-vf pullup -v</option> to your command line
- to see how <option>pullup</option> matches frames.
+ Another way to tell if your source is telecined or not is to play
+ the source with the <option>-vf pullup</option> and <option>-v</option>
+ command line options to see how <option>pullup</option> matches frames.
If the source is telecined, you should see on the console a 3:2 pattern
with <systemitem>0+.1.+2</systemitem> and <systemitem>0++1</systemitem>
alternating.