Should I de-interlace my DV footage for computer viewing ?

[sportster64]

If I understand correctly - when I capture DV footage from my CAmcorder into AVI file format - it is captured interlaced - which is why it of course looks interlaced when played back in media player. If my plans would be to keep the footage in raw DV-AVI format - should I de-interlace it somehow when capturing or post capture to view on the computer - I'm thinking this would give a better picture quality when viewing on computer versus cutting it to DVD to view on the computer since the DVD uses MPEG2 compression versus viewing the raw (de-interlaced) video on the computer - Am I wrong here in my thinking ? The only drawback I see with this is about for every hour of DV footage - it will suck up about 13GB of drive space.

[Tommyknocker]

Or certain software players like WinDVD and PowerDVD will play interlaced video just fine for you.

[sportster64]

good point - but would it look even better if I de-interlace it first - then use a viewer like that to view it ?

[Tommyknocker]

Not to me, but you can always encode a short sample of each filter to see for yourself.

[sportster64]

Have you ever used the Media Player 9 encoder to capture and encode DV-AVI at 1024x768 or 1280x720 to view raw DV ? I'm also trying to figure out if this will up-covert DV footage to a better image for viewing to try and preserve the original DV footage versus going to MPEG2 quality?

[Tommyknocker]

Not that I can remember.