How do I disable deinterlacing?
Many users seem confused about what the deinterlacing plugins do and what it means to disable them. The signal output from almost any video source, be it a Gamecube or cable TV, is an interlaced video signal. Implicitly when you display this on a computer screen, you are deinterlacing: you’re taking interlaced content and displaying it on a non-interlaced display. The simplest way to do this, and the default in some TV applications, is to buffer every two consecutive fields together and show them as a single frame. You can do this in tvtime by setting it to one of our Progressive modes. That’s about as close to “not deinterlacing” as you can get, but it’s still deinterlacing. Ideally, tvtime would be able to detect progressive content sent over an interlaced channel, such as the output from some video games or DV cameras in progressive mode. This feature is something we would like to have in a future release.
