Better Deintlacer Than YADIF?

[Prince Valiant]

I was wondering if there are deinterlacers better than YADIF for watching DVDs, anime in particular? I've got a Q8400 at 2.66ghz for my CPU and an HD6850 for my GPU; I'm using K-Lite and MPC-HC.

[poisondeathray]

1) Most animation from DVD will be telecined, not interlaced

2) If in the rare case it was really interlaced, there are better deinterlacers but most of them are CPU heavy, you might not get realtime playback unless you have a faster setup (e.g. you might try QTGMC on one of the faster presets)

[Prince Valiant]

1) Most animation from DVD will be telecined, not interlaced

2) If in the rare case it was really interlaced, there are better deinterlacers but most of them are CPU heavy, you might not get realtime playback unless you have a faster setup (e.g. you might try QTGMC on one of the faster presets)

My older DVDs are a mix. How would I go about setting up QTGMC?

[poisondeathray]

I'm not exactly sure how you would set it up for watching a DVD directly (I'm assuming from disc)

If you enabled ffdshow, it has avisynth box, you could probably use QTGMC there . Or if you wrote an avs script , you could play the .avs back directly . Both these would probably require it to be ripped to HDD first

DVD playback software will IVTC on the fly e.g. powerdvd, windvd

[Prince Valiant]

I'm not exactly sure how you would set it up for watching a DVD directly (I'm assuming from disc)

If you enabled ffdshow, it has avisynth box, you could probably use QTGMC there . Or if you wrote an avs script , you could play the .avs back directly . Both these would probably require it to be ripped to HDD first

DVD playback software will IVTC on the fly e.g. powerdvd, windvd

Alright, thanks for the help.

[Prince Valiant]

Dredging this up from the abyss now that I have a new PC, which I hope is sufficient for one of the better DI methods:
i5 4670k
GTX 780

The script would look something like this?
SetMemoryMax(512)
SetMTMode(3)
SetMTMode(2)
YourSource("yourfile") -ffVideoSource?
QTGMC( Preset="Medium" )
SelectEven()
SetMTMode(1)
GetMTMode(false) > 0 ? distributor() : last

[jagabo]

This is about all you need:

SetMtMode(2)
WhateverSource()
QTGMC(preset="medium")
SelectEven()

[Prince Valiant]

What would I need to set the source to for DVD playback?
ffVideoSource() Leaving the parenthesis empty?

Also, is there a noticeable quality difference between slow, medium, and fast or faster?

[jagabo]

ffVideoSource() Leaving the parenthesis empty?

You need to specify the source file. You can't leave the function empty. And ffVideoSource would only give you the video, no audio.

A commercial DVD is likely to be encrypted. So you would need to decrypt it first or use a decrypter that works in the background. There are probably several VOB files that you have to concatenate. And QTGMC may not be appropriate for the DVD. You need to analyze the video and handle it accordingly.

SetMtMode(2)
v1=FFmpegSource2("D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB")
v2=FFmpegSource2("D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB")
v3=FFmpegSource2("D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB")
QTGMC(v1+v2+v3)
SelecteEven()

But I don't think that will work because FFMmpegSource2() needs to create an index file, and it creates that file in the same place as the source, the DVD in this case. Further, AviSynth isn't meant to work as a DVD player. Using it like this may not work well because it will not have proper readahead buffering for DVD playback. And you might as well leave out the SelectEven() and play at 60 fps (or 50 fps for PAL) for smoother motion.

[Prince Valiant]

ffVideoSource() Leaving the parenthesis empty?

You need to specify the source file. You can't leave the function empty. And ffVideoSource would only give you the video, no audio.

A commercial DVD is likely to be encrypted. So you would need to decrypt it first or use a decrypter that works in the background. There are probably several VOB files that you have to concatenate. And QTGMC may not be appropriate for the DVD. You need to analyze the video and handle it accordingly.

SetMtMode(2)
v1=FFmpegSource2("D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB")
v2=FFmpegSource2("D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB")
v3=FFmpegSource2("D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB")
QTGMC(v1+v2+v3)
SelecteEven()

But I don't think that will work because FFMmpegSource2() needs to create an index file, and it creates that file in the same place as the source, the DVD in this case. Further, AviSynth isn't meant to work as a DVD player. Using it like this may not work well because it will not have proper readahead buffering for DVD playback. And you might as well leave out the SelectEven() and play at 60 fps (or 50 fps for PAL) for smoother motion.

I have decryption software running whenever the PC is on. From the sound of it, I should just stick to YADIF for DVDs and not worry about this.

[manono]

From the sound of it, I should just stick to YADIF for DVDs and not worry about this.

No, from the sound of it you should have taken pdr's suggestion from nearly a year ago and not deinterlaced at all. IVTC'd, maybe, but not deinterlaced. If you provide a short sample of something you're thinking of deinterlacing better advice can be offered.

My older DVDs are a mix.

I doubt it. There's an off chance some are field-blended, but the vast majority will be either soft or hard telecined, or a mix of the two.

[Prince Valiant]

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