Ghosting when de-interlacing PAL

[PlazzTT]

Hi,

I'm trying to deinterlace Six Feet Under PAL DVD, but everything I've tried (yadif, tomsmocomp, TDeint) gives me ghosting.

There's a 5 second huffyuv sample here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SKMYIWL9 (58MB)
and a 9 second cut of the VOB here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W0SRSNW0 (6MB)

Is the ghosting normal when deinterlacing these sources? Is it possible to get rid of it?

[Boulder]

Have you tried a simple Telecide() or TFM()? Based on a very quick peek, it looks like phase shifted material.

[PlazzTT]

I've tried them, there is still ghosting on a lot of frames (and some interlacing still with with TFM)

The best looking output I've been able to get is with nnedi(field=1). There's a 5 second x264 encode of that here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DIRQ9U65 (frame 95 always seems to be bad)

Maybe that encode looks acceptable? I don't know if it should be possible to get a better looking output.

[Boulder]

AFAIK Six Feet Under is shot on film so it is natively progressive. The NTSC->PAL conversion has been done in the nasty way which causes field blending. You might want to check out MRestore or Restore24 to possibly fix things. MRestore seems to be more stable than R24 so try that one first.

[PlazzTT]

Thanks, I will!

I was thinking it might have been a dodgy PAL conversion all right.