Burned home-video DVD looks not deinterlaced on tv

[granturissimus]

i have a minidv camcorder that records in standard definition onto minidv cassettes. when i play back the video by connecting teh camcorder to the tv, the video looks great and smooth. however, when i burned the video onto a dvd and played it back on my dvd player which is hooked up to the tv, the video looked like it had lower FPS, and it looked like it was not deinterlaced.

i'll explain what i mean:
i captured the video from my minidv camcorder unto the computer in dv-avi format, then i cut out the scene that i wanted and convereted it to dvd format (the file extension says .mpg). i selected the HQ DVD preset, which i think lets you only recored 1 hour on a single disk. i tried playing back this converted file on my computer in VLC media player, and the video was not deinterlaced, so it had the lines-and-pixel look to it during motion. now i thought that it wont look like that when i burn the video onto a dvd and play the dvd in my dvd player on my tv, but it looked the same... lines-and-pixely like it looked in VLC. in addition, the file and disk, both played back like they were in lower fps, like 24 or 20 (i dunno exactly the number, but the video looked not as smooth as it did while playing back directly from the camcorder).

my question is, how do i make my home movie DVDs look smooth just like the DVD movies from blockbuster look? that means how do i make it look "deinterlaced" and like it has higher FPS. i tried all this video work in powerdirector, as well as in intervideo editor (forgot what its called) and i got same results.

[jagabo]

I don't use Powerdirector or Intervideo but... Generally, DV is interlaced, bottom field first (BFF). You normally convert to interlaced BFF MPEG 2 and burn to DVD making sure your authoring software maintains that setting. If your software doesn't automatically detect that your source is interlaced BFF there's usually some way to override the setting -- often by right clicking on the video and selecting the option from the context menu. Some programs use different terminology Top/Bottom, Upper/Lower, A/B, 1/2, etc.

[granturissimus]

what free program can i use to capture my video from the minidv camera, and to burn it onto a dvd in a way that it will play back smoothly without ugly interlacing?

[filmboss80]

This is essentially the same issue as addressed in the other thread you started:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/330418-Is-the-FPS-of-a-MiniDV-camera-higher-than-th...S-of-DVD-video