Strange visual tearing/smearing with Anime encoding, w/ screenshots

[Ramscoop]

This isn't true for all anime I have been encoding but, about 70% of the time the final product after encoding contains irritating horrizontal tearing/smearing. I prefer to use StaxRip, I seem to get a better quality to filesize ratio but, StaxRip also seems to be related to the problem.

I can take the same project and encode using RipBot264 or Nero Recode and get decent results but, I really prefer StaxRip.

Here are a couple screenshots of the tearing/smearing from my x264 encode of the anime "Witchblade." The problem only becomes apparent when there is fast action in the animation, as seen below...

http://usera.ImageCave.com/eigen_bro/vlcsnap-61201.png.jpg

http://usera.ImageCave.com/eigen_bro/vlcsnap-62255.png.jpg

http://usera.ImageCave.com/eigen_bro/vlcsnap-62478.png.jpg

What is causing this!?

[Dark Shikari]

That's not "tearing", that's interlacing.

[Ramscoop]

I've also seen it occuring with my live-action films every once in a while, but mainly with anime. And like I said, it seems to only be a problem when I use StaxRip (version 1.1.1.0 BTW).

[Guest]

As Dark said, it is interlacing. The shots you posted are probably field blended.

[Ramscoop]

Great, thanks! So, I just used one of the Deinterlace profiles in VLC player and all is well. :)

[Dark Shikari]

That's not the way to fix it. Encoding interlaced material as progressive is an incredibly bad idea and wastes an enormous number of bits.

[Ramscoop]

Noted, thanks Dark. I'm using wizard-style apps to get the job done so I don't have alot of fine-tune control over the encode. RipBot264 seems to automatically detect progressive or interlaced content so, if I run into the problem I'll just fall back onto RipBot264 (as opposed to StaxRip).

[stax76]

Enable the yadif filter in StaxRip.

[Ramscoop]

Yadif; I will do that, thanks alot!

[Atak_Snajpera]

RipBot264 seems to automatically detect progressive or interlaced content so
Enable the yadif filter in StaxRip.
I'm 100% sure that your source is in fact soft telecined 23.976 source to 29.97. I use two methods to find if source has 2:3 pulldown. eac3to and mediainfo. if one of mentioned tools detects pulldown then dgindex is set with film switch. This the best method if you care about quality.

[stax76]

I've no experience with NTSC but what StaxRip does is reading the last line of the d2v file, it contains a percent value telling how much percent the souce is film and if a defined threshold is reached (95% by default) then it opens the d2v file with force film option. MeGUI does this also, that's how I learned about it, a MeGUI developer told me about how to do this. I'm from germany, never user NTSC, never watch and encode subtitles because the translations and my english is good enough.