What to do when dvd2avi is showing both progressive and interlace frame type?

[wdphish]

Hi All!

I have recently tried to back up some of my animation dvd's. It was going fine until I got to my Gundam Endless Waltz dvd. When I opened up the decrypted vob files in dvd2avi to preview it, I noticed that the frame type is switching back and forth between interlace and progressive.

Thinking that it won't affect the conversion process later on, I save the project and converted the d2v file to avi using VFAPIConv. I, then, tried to open up the AVI in TMPGenc, it is not recognized at all. TMPGenc couldn't recognize the format.

If I opened up the d2v file in TMPGenc, that would be no problem, but after getting it iVTC and save it as a tpr file, then converting it to avi, my avi player wouldn't play it unlike the others. I used ATI File Player that comes with my ATI Radeon video card to play my AVI file. BTW, I also tried opening the avi in TMPGenc and it didn't recognize it either.

So, the question is, is there a way to force dvd2avi to make the frame type progressive? Or, if not, how do I get around this problem?

I would appreciate it any suggestions.

TIA,

[manono]

Hi-Before trying something more radical, I'd try a different player if I were you. I never had much luck with the file player with my AIW Radeon, and eventually dumped the whole MMC and DVD Player. Try playing the VFAPI .avi in Windows Media Player (6.4 is preferable-and you can make it your default player by right clicking on the screen and going Options-Formats, and checking "Video file").

[ohliuv]

check the avisynth forum and the long thread about GreedyHMA, maybe that will help

GreedyHMA thread (http://rilanparty.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7254)

[ThePanda]

probably the intro is interlaced and the actual show is film. for anime I do dvd2avi-vfapi-virtualdub and there do adaptive IVTC and then apply the deinterlace (blend) filter as well, followed by smart smoother, temporal smoother, and bicubic resize. is it stupid to deinterlace it after IVTC? i do it because i can't stand those lines when IVTC isn't working right at points. the final picture looks good to me and these generic settings are easy and seem to work for all my anime.