De-Interlacing Help

Cube623

Before I get on with my problem I am a video editing n00b so you may need to explain stuff to me like you are explaining it to a child

I regularly record music videos from my tv (Sky+ Box) to my dvd recorder to put on my pc + Zen. Now about 1\4 of them have horizontal wavey lines whenever there is any movement. For a while I just put that down to my cheap dvd recorder but apparently it isn't and that the problem can be solved by de-interlacing the video?

Now I use Virtualdub (MPEG2 Version) and Koepi's Xvid Codec. I've downloaded a few de-interlacing filters for virtualdub and none of them work particuarly well. The best results i've got is with Gunnar Thalin's Deinterlace - Area Based filter. This gets rid of every horizontal line but the quality of the video is v.poor and not smooth. The same author has another filter called deinterlace - smooth which is apparently better but i cannot get it to work.

So has anyone got any better ideas how to deinterlace my videos? If you need them i will upload a sample video.

Cheers
Cube623.

temeteus82

in virtual dub add deinterlace filter and you are good

Cube623

i've given that a go and it does get rid of every horizontal wavy line but the video is incredibly blurry.

Also that method blends field together? From what i can find from google the best deinterlacing method is progressive scan? (weave+bob) But i cannot find a filter that does the job ok.

Prospero424

Try using AutoMKV (AutoMKV 0.92a - (DVD/TS/AVI/AVS to X264/XviD/WVC1 into MKV/MP4/WMV) update 27/11/2007 - Doom9's Forum) to compress the movies. It's easy, you can compress to XviD or x264 (even higher quality), and it uses an excellent auto-deinterlacer.

Make sure you check "HQ deint" in advanced options for best quality.

I used to do my transcoding manually in VirtualDubMod all the time, but now I pretty much only use AutoMKV.