[FFmpeg-user] ntsc-dvd doesn't default to interlaced.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Andy Civil <andycivil <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Because DVDs are normally interlaced

This obviously depends on the definition of 
"normally" but I don't think it is true.
(And as explained it would be very bad 
because people working with video see the 
artefacts on every display.)

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> > Please note that FFmpeg supports producing
> > interlaced content with the appropriate filter.

See http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#tinterlace
I suspect that you still have to specify the 
encoding flags, this could indeed be seen as a bug 
but it is not what you reported originally.

Carl Eugen