Is it necessary to deinterlace before burning to SVCD or DVD

[tony123]

I notice that deinterlacing softens the picture, something I don't want. I want the picture to be crisp and sharp like the original AVI. Should I burn without deinterlacing and let the DVD player or TV will take care of the deinterlacing during playback?

[adam]

Yes you should generally keep an interlaced source interlaced if possible. Both SVCD and DVD allow you to do this. Unless you have a progressive scan television, the tv displays images interlaced as well.

[Alan69]

The best thing to do first is probably just start reading here..

http://www.100fps.com/

[tony123]

Ok- I'll encode without deinterlacing and see how it goes.

I've always deinterlaced using VirtualDub and frameserve to TMPGenc for encoding. This process produces a soft deinterlaced picture for computer monitor but it is too soft.

[lordsmurf]

The best thing to do first is probably just start reading here..

http://www.100fps.com/

Give www.digitalFAQ.com a look too.

[tony123]

update- I encoded a video without deinterlacing and burned to DVD. Watched it on tv and it shows the interlaced lines. I am more confused

[adam]

You probably have the field order set wrong. You can reverse it on your encoded mpeg video stream using either pulldown.exe or re-stream, or you can re-encode it using the other field order.