Please use a different deinterlacer
Submitted by Alexander E. Patrakov
Link to original bug (#680648)
Description
The default deinterlacer in Totem is some kind of a frame-rate-doubling deinterlacer. For some purposes, it is not good enough.
To reproduce the bug, you can obtain a copy of "James Last Live in Berlin" music DVD. This DVD is not interlaced (probably made from a film roll) even though it presents itself as interlaced. So the deinterlacer makes jagged and flashy edges, this is annoying.
There are other instances (mostly involving thin static diagonal lines, e.g. from cobwebs) where a frame-rate-doubling deinterlacer can lead to a shaky video, but, as I am at the GUADEC conference, I cannot present you concrete examples with this effect being annoying enough.
While in this case the bug is that the deinterlacer is activated by mistake, I think that a different deinterlacer should be used by default, the one that tolerates progressive content and mostly-static thin lines better. I am talking about the equivalent of the "pp=fd" video filter from mplayer.
Version: 3.4.x