Interlaced Video (Anime Bluray)

[cbg]

So this show called To Love Ru got a BD release. And I buy it expecting something great, or atleast slightly acceptable. But I get a terribly done interlaced upscale. So I decided to encode it to look better. I'm satisfied with the script I've written for it so far, with the overall picture quality. But the one thing I couldn't really properly fix was the interlacing. I've included a sample (probably NSFW) It's an mkv remux(untouched)


I'd be grateful if someone can help me fix this.

Thanks.

[jagabo]

That's some very strange video. Different parts of the frame have different comb artifacts. Try something like:

ffVideoSource("TLR interlaced.mkv") 
AssumeTFF()
TFM(pp=0)
Vinverse()
TDecimate()
AAA()
BilinearResize(856,480) # bilinear to reduce oversharpening halos

[cbg]

Awesome man. It works great. So the only problem was that whenever I added any spatial smoothers to that script^, the interlacing kept creeping back in. Which is when I remembered that most of them work for progressive video only. So what I did was first ran the de-interlacing, and then I applied the other filters with the output video from the first. Here's the finished product. Tell me what you think.

[Brad]

Spatial smoother? The sample looked like digital ink+paint to me.

[cbg]

Err, this is the script that I used. After running that^^ to de-interlace.

ffVideoSource("\TLR interlaced1.mkv")

eDeen(7,7,14,1,2)

DeHalo_alpha_mt(darkstr=0.2,brightstr=1.0)

AAA()

What would you recommend?

[Brad]

Let me expand my question: why do you want to use a spatial smoother?

[cbg]

To improve the overall visual quality of the video... There was some grain and all that oversharpening. I figured it would be right to smoothen it out...?