Deinterlace a TS folder...

[spookyloop]

I have a TS folder of a television show in PAL. My DVD player is multi-region code so I don't have to do the NTSC/PAL conversion. But since the file is from television, it has these "combing" artifacts so I need to deinterlace it. And I've been trying to find an application to do this without luck. So if anybody knows one, please let me know.
Thanks.

[TheJUGGERNAUT29]

There is a free dvd conversion program called Handbreak 0.7.1. In the picture settings you can select to deinterlace the picture. Download Handbreak here http://handbrake.m0k.org/?page_id=8

[spookyloop]

Thanks for the advice, but I wan't to keep it a TS folder cause I want to burn it onto DVD and Handbrake converts to MPEG-4/H.264.
And then, I think I'll need to convert it back again to be able to burn it.

[tomlee59]

Alas, de-interlacing an MPEG is not a simple operation that sidesteps the need for a full re-encoding. So, whatever flow you choose, it will involve a total re-encoding of the movie. On the Mac, your options are somewhat limited. ffmpegX can do this, although I believe for a limited selection of formats (into DivX, for certain). Alternatively use Handbrake, which you seem to be familiar with. Using either to generate a de-interlaced intermediate isn't necessarily a tragic choice, given the limited options. If you use a high enough bitrate, the generational loss may not be too bad. Just try a few experiments on a short segment and see if you find settings that produce results acceptable to you.

If your Mac can dual-boot into (gasp) Windows, you may find that having tools from both platforms gives you a great deal of additional flexibility, particularly with respect to the deinterlace question.

[dizzie]

You know, I'm under the impression that the DVD player will deinterlace it all by itself. Have you tried just creating an image of the Parent folder with the VIDEO_TS inside and burning it to disk to try out yet? Or, as a first step, just open the VIDEO_TS file with Apple's built-in DVD player software. Then, in the control bar, click off Deinterlace. It should play just fine. Let us know your results!

[spookyloop]

I've already tried both. When I play the TS folder with the Mac DVD player it doesn't change anyting at all when I check the deinterlace option. And when I play the DVD on my standalone player its not as bad but it still has a lot off interlacing artifacts.
Plus this television show is a music concert so there's a lot of movement.
I don't know...maybe I should convert it to NTSC first, and I don't know what application to use
for that either.

[tomlee59]

Conversion into NTSC won't help (and actually will hurt).

As mentioned before, deinterlacing is not a simple operation. There are several ways to do it, and not all of them work well in all cases. For an extended discussion with examples, see the home page of the site I referenced earlier in response to another post of yours:

http://www.100fps.com/

It's about the best-written short guide out there, because of the numerous examples shown.

You'll note that the tools mentioned are all Windows-based. That's because there are far fewer tools for doing this on a Mac than on a PC, unfortunately. You've seen that Apple's DVD player doesn't perform deinterlacing to your satisfaction (I don't know what algorithm it uses, but I'm sure it's very simple; ditto for most standalone players). I also don't know what deinterlacing method ffmpegx uses, but a quick experiment should suffice for you to determine its suitability for your purposes.