Category Archives: evil

The difference between interlacing and interlacing

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Judging from #darkhold conversations, other related sources and mentoring several people about it, this is a subject that has confused many. What’s interlacing, what’s progressive, what’s the difference between film and video, how does telecining work, what’s the difference between hard and soft telecine, what’s BFF/TFF/RFF, what does those numbers in DVD2AVI/DGIndex mean, where does [...]

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Evil Perl scripting

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Reencoders rejoice, for I have written a script that given a v2 timecodes file and an output framerate generates an Avisynth script that converts VFRaC to CFR (much like directshowsource(convertfps=true)). It’s very evil, very slow and probably buggy. Don’t use it. I only wrote it because I was promised money for it. If you are [...]

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