Playing 480i

[sphinx99]

I've built up quite a library of captured SD material all in its original lossless interlaced format. I have a fairly nice receiver with an excellent deinterlacing upscaling processor. I want to feed the video into it (through HDMI) as 480i and let the receiver do its magic. Suggestions on how?

My blu-ray player can send DVD content as 480i over HDMI so it surely can be done. So, I could encode the material as MPEG2 DVD and put the disc in. But ugh, so much work! If I use a PC with HDMI set to 720x480 and play the raw video through VLC, would that do the trick?

[sphinx99]

For what it's worth, I think I got it working. TVersity when running on a PC can stream 480i encoded material at 480i to a DLNA device like my Oppo blu-ray player. This can send that video, in its 480i glory, to the receiver, which then deinterlaces and upscales.