Interlacing Problem with DivX

[Leica]

When I encode interlaced material with Windows Media Encoder into WMV, they play perfectly hardware de-interlaced as 59.94 progessive frames per second.

However when I encode interlaced material with DivX 6.2.5 into AVI and play them, I get no de-interlacing at all. Instead I get nasty weave (combing) at 29.97 frames per second.

How can I play my DivX interlaced files properly de-interlaced? I tried playing them with PowerDVD 7 too and still no de-interlacing.

BTW I have a NVidia 6600 video card.

Thanks.

P.S. Please don't advice me to de-interlace the video before encoding it! I want to preserve the interlacing and so get silky smooth 59.94 playback...

[Jacquers]

Sounds like you need to try a different media player then:

Try Media Player Classic or VLC Player

[Awatef]

Or use FFDShow to decode DivX content, and enable one of the available deinterlacing options.

[Leica]

With any other player like VLC or using FFD Show it will be possible to deinterlace it, BUT it will be done in software.

I love hardware deinterlacing, because I have a NVidia card and I get NVidia's Pure Video deinterlacing which I find the best by far. Interlaced WMV files play silky smooth at 59.94 frames per second completely free of any deinterlacing artifacts.

By the way, AVI files with the DV coded also play perfectly hardware deinterlaced. So if an AVI with DV coded uses hardware interlaced, why can't the same AVI with the DivX coded also use the same hardware interlacing???

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hi Leica

In general it's a MPEG-4 direct-show decoder (and post processing) issue. Indeed a similar topic was raised in the XviD section of the forum: -

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=112988

Thankfully the guys over at Core are working on a new version of CoreASP, which hopefully will offer playback of pure interlaced MPEG-4 at the decoder level instead of involving some form secondary post processing. There's a thread about CoreASP here: -

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=109462&page=2


Cheers

[jonny_ftm]

Just wanted to say I have same issue when capturing to divx. The only solution I found was to set "de-interlace" in the divx 6.2.5 settings. Looks like the encoder doesn't retain the interlace info, and encodes the image as horizental lines. So even later on my standalones, it gets these odd lines, and no way to get it back as it was, it just alters it. Meanwhile, I'll advice to de-interlace while encoding. All movies encoded in otherways, are deeply destroyed, and no longer contain any interlace info: they will never play smooth