Problems with interlaced music video

[danielkun]

I'm encoding a japanese music video compilation DVD, it's called "Together clips!" it lasts only 43 minutes, so the bitrate is high. Since it's interlaced I've tried IVTC, deinterlace it and I've also encoded it interlaced (zigzag and progressive unchecked) and in every case it has lots of blockiness.

I used CCE (4 pass) but also tried TMPGenc, nothing works well, I did some progressive encodes before and turned out great but this one is giving me a headache!!

I Usually use bicubicresize 0.60, antinoise filter 10, quality priority 22 (or 17), Intra DC 8

Here are some of the settings I already tried:

IVTC
IVTC and deinterlace
Bilinear resize and temporalsmoother (so that it gets more compressible)
Quality priority 5
Quality priority 30
Field order bottom field first
and combinations between those settings, most of them with IVTC

Any suggestions? please help before I rip my own head off!!

[sandchar99]

I've had this problem with just about every music video I've ever done.

Assuming NTSC (you can manually "open" the first VOB into DVD2AVI and "save project" viewing the info on the side).

Now on the DV2AVI tab in DVD2SVCD, check ForceFilm Off. On the Conversion tab, try Blend Fields (or Smart Deinterlace which is slower). And hit go. Try a chapter first.

Good luck

PS The above may not work but it is worth a try. It always works for me on concert videos.

[danielkun]

Thanks for the info!
I've already done a few encodings and the one that gave me the best results was IVTC, bicubic 0.6 and 6 pass in CCE.
I know that more than 4 passes are virtually worthless in some cases but they seemed alright here, anyway I'm gonna try your recommendations.
Thxs a lot!