Cleaning Up Video Ripped from Official Website

[Rugratskid]

I have a video clip of a cartoon that seems to have a lot of problems. The cartoon is an Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon. This isn't a cartoon I purchased, HOWEVER, it was ripped directly from the official Chipmunks website, where it was available for a few years. Recently, they redid their site, so it can no longer be watched. I'm guessing it's legal to discuss this, since it wasn't illegally downloaded; it came directly from the official website, no recoverting has been done. It's certainly interlaced, but I can't tell if it has been resized. There are also some weird lines at some scene changes, or sometimes when there is movement. This isn't interlacing though; I have no clue what it is. I included the original flv from the website as an attachment. If anyone has some suggestions on how to clean this up, I'd love to hear it.

[jagabo]

Yes, it was once interlaced video but it has been encoded as if progressive. You can largely clean it up with TFM() and TDecimate() but some artifacts will be left behind. I think some of the other horizontal lines are artifacts from the interlacing and VP6 encoding.

Something like this for a start:

ffVideoSource("Alvin For President (ripped from AATC website).flv") 
AssumeBFF()
TFM(mode=0)
TDecimate()
BicubicResize(360,288)
TTempSmooth(maxr=5, strength=5)
nnedi3_rpow2(2, cshift="Spline64Resize", fwidth=640, fheight=486)
MergeChroma(aWarpSharp(depth=5), aWarpSharp(depth=15))
Sharpen(0.6)
ChromaShift(c=2)

The replace some of the individual frames at transitions with the previous or next frame. Processed sample with some frames replaced: