DVD2SVC with HC18 // choosing a de-interlace setting

[petermarina]

Hello everyone,
I've been trying to use DVD2SVCD 1.2.3 to make a set of 3 SVCD of a baptism and experimented with the free version of TMPGenc. The results are ok but I was hoping to get HC18gui to work with it and see witch works best for me. The problem is that HC18gui.exe some times works fine and sometimes it refuses to accept the input file (AviSynth_Script_file_FS1.AVS) generated by DVD2SVCD. It happens most often when I select the "blendfields" for the deinterlace option but sometimes works with the other settings. Any suggestions would be more then welcome...

Another problem I have, is to decide witch is best for deinterlacing. The original is a 25fps, 720x576 PAL DVD and looks interlaced to me. The image quality is not as great as it should be for a filming from a DV camera. I know it's a DV camera cause the photographer gave us the original camera tapes. The original DVD has a VIDEO_RM folder which probably indicates the DVD was generated with a Digital recorder from an analog source, maybe from the TV-out of a PC where it was all edited. Should I use blendfields, Verticalreduceby2, no-deinterlacing, Separatefields/selectevery or keepinterlaced?

Thanx

[Boulder]

You should not let DVD2SVCD do the deinterlacing so choose no deinterlacing. The options the program offers are not up-to-date so I suggest you do it with the Avisynth script editor. There's multiple options to choose from depending on whether you have the time to wait for the encode to finish or not.

[petermarina]

I suggest you do it with the Avisynth script editor. There's multiple options to choose from depending on whether you have the time to wait for the encode to finish or not.

Do you have any specific sugestions for Avisynth scrip commands?

[Boulder]

If the field order is BFF as it should be for DV stuff, I'd use AssumeBFF().TDeint() for deinterlacing. You need the tdeint.dll in your plugins folder, see the Avisynth development section for the TDeint thread.