flickering video clip

[exabyte]

Hi,
I have acquired a video clip that is from a TV series. It states thatbthe file type is avi, but when I view it with either Media Player 9 or Power DVD6
I get flickering throughout the whole clip.
I have various TV clips and they all have the same problem.
Is there a way to recify this??
Can you please assist
Regards
Don

[waheed]

I would assume this is related to a codec problem if it happens with all your videos.

Try uninstalling your codecs and re-installing it again.

[manono]

Does this happen to all your AVIs, or just to all your TV series AVIs?

Because my guess is somewhat different, and that they were just deinterlaced, when perhaps they should have been IVTC'd. NTSC TV Series DVDs are often hard telecined, with 29.97fps encoded frames on the DVD. When converted to AVI, if the encoder doesn't know what he's doing, he may just deinterlace it. To confirm, open one of them in NanDub/VDub/VDubMod. First go File->File Information and confirm that it's 29.97fps. Then scroll to a place where there's movement and start stepping through the frames one-by-one. If, in every sequence of 5 frames, you see 3 clean frames and 2 blurry, blended frames, then you may as well delete it, as the damage has been done, and can't be undone.

That was for NTSC DVD sources. If it's 25fps from a PAL DVD source, then it was a bad NTSC to PAL conversion and, again, delete it, as it can't be fixed at this stage.