m2v looks fine, ISO resembles having double vision

[koberulz]

I'm trying to burn a DVD from an m2v file and a wav file. The m2v file itself, when played in VLC, works fine. However, when mounting the ISO with VCD and playing back in PowerDVD, whenever there's fast movement it blurs, somewhat resembling having double vision. It's almost exactly like watching interlaced footage, except without lines through it and not quite as bad.

What's causing this, and how do I rid myself of it?

[guns1inger]

Post a sample of the problem. How are you authoring the streams ?

[koberulz]

Adobe Encore.

How would I post a sample of an ISO? That's the only place it's a problem, the footage is fine (even in the Encore monitor).

[guns1inger]

Mount the iso and chop a section of one of the VOBs, or post a screen shot from your player.

Have you tried burning this to a disc to make sure it isn't a PowerDVD issue ?

[koberulz]

Yeah, it was playing back the disc that I noticed the issue. It was only then that I checked the ISO and saw that wasn't working either.

What would I use to edit a VOB file?

[hech54]

Just chop a piece in DVDShrink.

[koberulz]

I cut out a sample VOB file in DVDShrink, and it played fine in VLC, so I opened it in PowerDVD. The ghosting recurred. Given that, I figured it might be a problem with PowerDVD after all, merely one that my DVD player shares, so I opened the original m2v file in PowerDVD. It played fine, though, so something's definitely happened to the footage during the authoring process, causing a problem that is only present in PowerDVD and in my DVD player.

I could not, however, upload the file, because my connection kept resetting.

[koberulz]

Here it is.

EDIT: Ran it through Windows Media Player, the problem also occurs there. Works fine in Media Player Classic, though.

[guns1inger]

WMP handles interlaced footage very badly. My guess if PowerDVD is doing the same. It seems to ply fine here in MPC-HC, as interlaced.

[koberulz]

But it isn't working on my DVD player, which you'd think would handle it. Not to mention that PowerDVD plays the original, equally interlaced, m2v file fine.

[guns1inger]

The only other possibility I can think of is that somehow Encore has switched the fields during authoring, and that for some reason MPC-HS can handle this while others cannot.

[koberulz]

Have you downloaded and viewed the file? It doesn't look to me like an interlacing issue.

[poisondeathray]

it's flagged bottom field first, but examining fields shows content is top field first

The mismatch might be confusing your dvd player or software

(I would try either encoding it properly with top field first, or author with top field first, or use restream to change the elementary video to top field first and reauthor)

[koberulz]

How would I change it? Encore is authoring it lower field first, and the only way to get it to upper first is by retranscoding, which makes it look horrible for some reason.

[poisondeathray]

encode the m2v properly in the first place (TFF) , or use restream to flag it TFF . I think you can leave the project set to BFF, the problem is the actual video streams are flagged improperly

If that doesn't work you can swap the field order with avisynth to BFF in the first place so everything is BFF

[koberulz]

Restream did the trick. Thanks.