Strange playback:PAL movie flickers on PAL out, not on NTSC

[Dragonsf]

Recently I made a B/W DVD (2 Marx Brothers films).I captured the footage via DV from satellite (in PAL).Playing the avi on a PC:everythings looked ok.
The I made 2 mpeg-2 out of them and authored both together.
the m2v and the authored DVD work both fine on my PC, but playing back on standalone DVD players (2 tested) gives strange results:
the first movies plays fine but the second flickers so bad, you can recognize anything.(Both come from the same avi source, but were separatly encoded).Setting the players output to NTSC: both play absolutely fine.
I double-checked, if I accidently encoded in the wrong format, but all footage is PAL.
Any idea, how this can happen?

[Dragonsf]

At last I found the reasonomehow the frame field order was swapped.Using the decomb filter solved the problem.

[NamPla]

Heh, same thing happened to me once or twice. I'm sure I read around here somewhere that you should play your source VHS first, THEN push record on your capture software. If you do it vice versa, it might record with opposite field order...!??? (Don't know how true this is).

Also beware when you crop etc...reverses the field order sometimes...

What is "decomb" filter? Doesn't that make it progressive frames, which you don't want?

[Dragonsf]

I'm capturing directly from satellite source.Decomb (i my case Telecine) does reduce the combing effect (which you get with horizontal movements).As far as I understand this filter, is doesn't deinterlace and doesn't make progressive frames.
The movie works on my DVD player and that's all what matters.

[Dragonsf]

I'm capturing directly from satellite source.Decomb (i my case Telecine) does reduce the combing effect (which you get with horizontal movements).As far as I understand this filter, is doens't deinterlace and doesn't make progressive frames.
The movie works on my DVD player and that's all what matters.

BTW:it's an AVS filter.

[NamPla]

The movie works on my DVD player and that's all what matters.

Cheers on that one, mate!

Sounds exactly what I need to try. I use avisynth too.

[Dragonsf]

I did a last test:it was the field order:I instructed the mpeg encoder to use to top field first (even if the captured avi was theoretically bottom field first) and it resulted in the same working movie.
Conclusion:use the telecine filter (a little slow, but works with both field types - just find out which one to use) or use a different field order (burn to RW first).