How to correctly IVTC Futurama NTSC?

[mahsah]

I tried searching, but the thread with the most info was for the PAL version...

I've got to think someone knows how to do it... it is an older dvd and Futurama was even in a few doom9 codec tests...

Megui fails on the analysis, and I don't know what to do! Could someone take a look at this sample and see a good way to ivtc it to get rid of all the combs?(this link links to multiple filehosts):
http://www.fileducky.com/Mklqbmmc/

Thanks.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

If you're converting a ripped DVD to .AVI, you might want to try MPEGMediator...

[neuron2]

There's nothing problematic about that clip.

Serve with DGIndex set for Honor Pulldown Flags, then either Telecide/Decimate or TFM/TDecimate.

[mahsah]

I kinda wanted to keep it in avisynth...

Besides, mpegmediator doesn't seem to do it correctly.

[mahsah]

Thanks Neuron2, but I did just what you suggested and am still having problems.

Here are some screenshots:

tfm().tdecimate
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6619/tfmmt0.png

tfm(chroma=true).tdecimate(chroma=true)
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/299/tfmchromacp1.png

telecide().decimate()
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7826/decombxd9.png

As you can see there are still these "ghosts" in it. Is there any way to get rid of these?

[neuron2]

That little segment has blended fields. It's not possible to fix that with IVTC alone.

[mahsah]

Alone? Are there any other ways to fix it then?

[neuron2]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-08,GGLD:en&q=blended+fields+site%3aforum%2edoom9%2eorg

[mahsah]

Thanks, but after some more searching it seems that the ghosts are part of the animation upconverting to 24 fps from whatever they animated it at. So I don't think there is any way to easily remove some of those ghosts. Apparently later box sets arn't so bad.

[mahsah]

Looking back over the encodes, it seems there are some (really small) mouth combs leftover in other parts. Any advice on fixing those? Maybe even just blending them?

[Chug a Bug]

Funnily enough I was converting some Futurama clips for my mp3 player (AVI, XVID) too and I came across exactly these problems. My DVD's are PAL but I believe the problem is common to NTSC as well. The early episodes in particular have some terrible interlacing/ghosting problems. Whoever did the mastering should have been shot.

I followed this guide (http://www.100fps.com/) choosing the "Combination of Bob+Weave (=Progressive Scan)" option. It worked really well for me. It creates 50fps video but choosing to decimate to 25fps afterwards still produced good results.