interlaced video and avisynth

[ideas_man69]

Hi guys..

i've been searching around and playing around with avisynth for hours with no luck.. basically i'm wanting to convert my cartoon dvds (futurama + family guy) to divx. i've converted movies before but none are (or appeared to be) interlaced.

i've tried the standard deinterlacing filters within avisynth and some external filters but no matter what - get the same annoying output...

heres my original vob file (on left) and deinterlaced video (on right) just using virtualdubs deinterlacer:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/ideas_man69/mine2.JPG

and here's a 'pro' encoding from another source:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/ideas_man69/pro.JPG

Can someone please please please help me out.. i didn't think interlaced video would be such a pain to work with :(

thanks in advance!

[dialysis1]

Maybe you might want to try adding Ghost Remover.

[foxyshadis]

No, no, just don't use virtualdub to deinterlace. It's there for quick & dirty jobs, but it isn't made to deinterlace with high quality.

However, family guy, like most cartoons, should be IVTC'd rather than deinterlaced anyway. Again, this is something better done in avisynth (see TIVTC) than virtualdub's fragile ivtc.

[scharfis_brain]

looks like he got the PAL version of this series.
so he cannot use any IVTC.

the pal versions were mangled trough a standards conversion from NTSC to PAL which inserted ghosted - or better speaking: blended - frames.

these can tried to be removed by crestore or restore24, but it would be a hard task to do so, cause the familiy guy series has very inconsistent blending patterns.

[ideas_man69]

No, no, just don't use virtualdub to deinterlace. It's there for quick & dirty jobs, but it isn't made to deinterlace with high quality.

However, family guy, like most cartoons, should be IVTC'd rather than deinterlaced anyway. Again, this is something better done in avisynth (see TIVTC) than virtualdub's fragile ivtc.

thanks very much for your reply. the virtualdub stuff was only to show my situation - avisynth is the king (provided you know how to use it :))

i've checked quickly through the TDeint and TIVTC thread and seems that there is alot to learn... any chance of getting an example of a script that i could use on this type of video?

MeGUI has made these two for me:

DirectShowSource("C:\vts_1.vob",fps=25,audio=false)
edeintted = last.AssumeTFF().SeparateFields().SelectEven().EEDI2(field=-1)
TDeint(order=1,edeint=edeintted)
#crop
Lanczos4Resize(512,384) # Bilinear (Soft)
#denoise


or

DirectShowSource("C:\vts_1.vob",fps=25,audio=false)
TDeint(order=1)
#crop
Lanczos4Resize(512,384) # Bilinear (Soft)
#denoise


thanks again

[ideas_man69]

looks like he got the PAL version of this series.
so he cannot use any IVTC.

the pal versions were mangled trough a standards conversion from NTSC to PAL which inserted ghosted - or better speaking: blended - frames.

these can tried to be removed by crestore or restore24, but it would be a hard task to do so, cause the familiy guy series has very inconsistent blending patterns.

oh... thats sad to hear :(

it is the pal series indeed...