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Im trying to use vlc to listeen dvds, but as soon I activate the deinterlace filter, the dvd menu selection is never show. I see the menu but the item selected is not highlited.

Any ideas why I can't have the filter on and be able to navigate the menu ?

Thanks !

Because it was better than the player crashing for files that do not need and can not use the filter.

Ahhh ok.

How I can use dvd menu and watch dvd deinterlaced now ?

I don't believe you ever could without crashing the player, because the menus are in a different format than the movie. I find that most commercial DVDs that have a source other than TV do not need to be deinterlaced. The film to digital transfer (Telecene) applies a 2 - 3 pull down that appears as progressive video and applying the deinterlace filter does not work correctly. For those whose source are TV serials a deinterlace filter may be applied using dvdsimple (no Menus). But even most of these have been corrected for the DVD format.

Thanks you for your answer. However, I found that some Dvd I own require to be deinterlaced. For my Linux htpc, the only solution is to simply turn off the filter when I start a disc and later on active it. But that is far from the ideal solution.

Anyway to autodetect if it the main movie that is playing with the rc interface ? Im using it to control vlc and freevo. (I wrote my one freevo plugin)

Unfortunately there is nothing in the header of the file for any format that says what interlace method was used in order to form some automatic function. This is still a look and guess situation.