Interlaced video on a standalone DVD

[Khizhiy]

My basic idea is to store my home videos on DVD-R's. But I really wonder if they will playback in the same manner as from a video tape?
Let me explain. All DVD's, that I have ever got hold of, were originally 24 frames per second films; hence, non-interlaced. My computer equipped with a dual-head TV-out-capable Matrox card does very well playing back those DVDs.
Now, when I convert my DV-videos into MPEG-2 format, I end up with two consequent fields interposed in one frame. No surprise, the output to the monitor, as well as to a TV, looks horrible because of the comblike edges on moving objects.
So, my question is: will a standalone DVD player take care of this interlacing issue and display interlaced MPEG-2 correctly, field by field, or will I still need to deinterlace my DV videos?

[kinneera]

Assuming you encode your MPEG2 interlaced and not progressive, it will look just fine on your TV.

[Khizhiy]

Just fine being played back on a DVD player, I assume
Well, what about the upper and lower field first issue? DV format has the lower field first. Do I have to change the order of fields while compressing to MPEG-2? Any particular/practical suggestions on this matter?

[ngnr]

The only way to know for sure as far as I know is to encode an interlaced SVCD with upper or lower field first and play it back on your player and see if it is "jumpy" (or go frame by frame to see if the motion is correct) and if it is jumpy, then use the opposite setting. There may be other ways of finding out but if there are, I couldn't really find one that worked for me and this one is pretty well fool proof. Once you get the field order right, the SVCD will play back perfectly on your TV with no visible comb effects but will still show interlacing effects on your PC monitor.

[kinneera]

If you know the field order (and obviously you do), then yes, you have to set your encoder to handle them in the appropriate order. In TMPGEnc, this is found under the "Advanced" options tab.