Best VDub or TMPGenc filters for cartoons?

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Hi everyone. Just a question to ask for people's opinions on the best filters to use in VDub,& to a lesser extent TMPGenc to clean up & get rid of horizontal "banding" issues from cartoon VHS video captures.

I'm capturing in 640x480 huffy compressed AVI files using a PCTV pro. The intention is converting via TMPGEnc to a Video CD,(to be burnt by Nero 5.5), as a PAL 352x288,with a full screen setting that would be suitable for a stand alone DVD player,(4:3 625 PAL does this in TMPGEnc doesn't it? I'm using the wizard option),& of course the PC.

At present I'm using the following filters in VDub in this order,
DeInterlace (Blend Best Quality), Sharpen (Max option 64), Flaxen VHS (standard default options),& Flaxen cartoon(Standard defaulted selections). From there to frameserving to TMPGenc I don't use any filters in TMPGEnc.

I'm mostly dubbing anime stuff,(like old robotech/voltron etc.) recordings though, I might also do things like Hana-barbera cartoon's too. I'm curious if anyone out there has their own filters that've helped in produced good 640x480 AVI to VCD Mpeg1 translations....

[kinneera]

This is the contents of the .vcf file (VDub filters) that I use for animation. I'm not sure how well they would work for anime, though, since that is more complicated art than the Simpsons and South Parks I usually use these for:

VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,500,1,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(3);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("smart deinterlace (2.7 beta 2)");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[0].Config(0, 1, 15, 100, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0);
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("smart smoother (1.1)");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[1].Config(5, 55, 1);
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("xsharpen (1.0 beta 2)");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[2].Config(20, 45);
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();

(That's smart deinterlace, smart smoother, and xsharpen). Produces pretty decent SVCDs from a fairly poor analogue cable source.