anime interlacing from hell

[JediNight]

I'm writing this message after around 3 hours of fiddling with decomb and throwing up the white flag. I'm trying to IVTC/deinterlace an MPEG2 stream of Onegai Twins. I have the latest decomb filter (5.0b16) and have also tried using kerneldeint in conjunction to no avail. I either keep getting interlacing in the mouths, or artifacts in motion scenes and I can't seem to get rid of both. I even swore I had settings that worked and saved them, but when I loaded the script again an hour later they didn't work again...

This is what I currently have:

Telecide(order=1,guide=1,post=1,vthresh=25,hints=true)
KernelDeint(1,sharp=false)
Decimate(cycle=5,mode=2)

I've tried throwing in various levels of gthresh and dthresh and even blend and nothing seems to work. =(

Do any of you have some decomb settings or even settings for another IVTC filter thats YV12 and works in Avisynth 2.5 that you've had success with?

[bilu]

Try hints=false in Telecide, has helped me with KernelDeint.

[DoW]

There are some weird animes out there (interlacing wise), and I dont know if you happen to be working on one. Some animes there is nothing you can do but to use an override file or TPRIVTC

[JediNight]

Use TPR as in manually IVTC the entire thing, right? =\

I tried doing auto-IVTC in TMPGenc already and that didn't work either.

[AS]

Originally posted by JediNight
Use TPR as in manually IVTC the entire thing, right? =\

I tried doing auto-IVTC in TMPGenc already and that didn't work either.

Unfortunately, yes.

Since you are having so much trouble, ever thought of doing the ivtc in yuv? Often I have better ivtc results in yuv, using converttoyuy(interlaced=true).

[JediNight]

Well I was guided thru checking the field order in TMPGenc and apparently he says that its improperly interlaced. Even field TOP A comes out as smooth motion, but Even field BOT B, Odd field TOP A, and Odd field BOT B are all jerky/rubberbanding. There are also sections where 5 fields in a row are interlaced...

AS: How does converting to YUV colorspace affect trying to deinterlace it?

[PowerMacG4]

Better combing detection