Frequently asked questions about deinterlacing by Billy Biggs
<firstname.lastname@example.org> I often find myself discussing
deinterlacing on IRC, so this page will be updated and
maintained as an FAQ on topics relating to deinterlacing video
content for computing applications. The content on this page has
been edited and co-authored with help from people on IRC,
including Bart Dorsey and Tero Auvinen. Many thanks to them. A
more visual description I have written up a new page on
deinterlacing entitled interlaced video on a computer display
which I believe helps explain some of the concepts described
here more easily. I'll try and clean this up as soon as
possible, but please check out that page if you find the
descriptions here too technical. What is the difference between
interlaced and progressive video? People often state that NTSC
is 29.97 frames per second and PAL is 25 frames per second.
However, both of these formats are interlaced, and so these
numbers only describe the amount of data, not the visib