OLD DVD - How can I restore this video?

[RB1988]

I am looking for help to try to restore this video. Although I am not completely unfamiliar with the process, my knowledge is limited, as I do not know how to use avisynth or other programs. I would need help with this video. I have no problem with using IA or other programs to improve the quality, as long as it can be viewed properly.


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Warning: the video may contain bright lights, so if you have issues with this, I do not recommend watching it.

[Selur]

that file is flagged as interlaced, but isn't interlaced,... TDecimate could be used for the decimation.
(not sure how this ended up inside a mp4 container with this characteristics, if the source is a DVD)
IA? did you mean AI ?

Attached a sample, of what happens if one throws BasicVSR++ at it,.... (it's smooth, but maybe more watchable)

Cu Selur

[RB1988]

that file is flagged as interlaced, but isn't interlaced,... TDecimate could be used for the decimation.
(not sure how this ended up inside a mp4 container with this characteristics, if the source is a DVD)
IA? did you mean AI ?

Attached a sample, of what happens if one throws BasicVSR++ at it,.... (it's smooth, but maybe more watchable)

Cu Selur

Perhaps it was my poor export in Avidemux. I ripped the original with MakeMKV.

[davexnet]

that file is flagged as interlaced, but isn't interlaced,... TDecimate could be used for the decimation.
(not sure how this ended up inside a mp4 container with this characteristics, if the source is a DVD)
IA? did you mean AI ?

Attached a sample, of what happens if one throws BasicVSR++ at it,.... (it's smooth, but maybe more watchable)

Cu Selur

Perhaps it was my poor export in Avidemux. I ripped the original with MakeMKV.

Doesn't the mkv from Makemkv contain mpeg-2?
If so take a clip of it in Avidemux, leave video as "copy"
Set output format (lower left) to mpeg PS muxer

[Selur]

the video is mpeg-2, but it is progressive and inside an mp4 container,....

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Commercial name                          : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Internet media type                      : video/mp4
Codec ID                                 : isom
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/mp41)
Codec ID/Url                             : http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html
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Duration                                 : 167701
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Duration                                 : 2 min 47 s
Duration                                 : 00:02:47.701
Duration                                 : 00:02:47:16
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File creation date (local)               : 2025-12-29 22:28:29.913
File last modification date              : 2025-12-29 21:28:30.637 UTC
File last modification date (local)      : 2025-12-29 22:28:30.637
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Writing application                      : Lavf58.76.100

Video
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Duration                                 : 2 min 47 s
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Strange thing is that the video isn't interlaced (or telecined); no combing artefacts when treating the file as progressive.
I suspect either MakeMKV or Avidemux messed up the headers or that DVD isn't even DVD compliant.

[Alwyn]

Depends what you mean by "restore".

Here's my attempt. By the look of the aspect of the drum, the video itself is 16:9.

The pattern is 123455, so it's AVISynth: TFM plus TDecimate cycle 6, remove 1. I added TemporalDegrain2 for noise reduction and then in VDub, some sharpening and resizing.

LWLibavVideoSource("D:\VH\RB1988\05.mp4")
TFM()
TDecimate(Cycle=6, CycleR=1)
TemporalDegrain2(degrainTR=3,grainLevel=1,postFFT=0)
Prefetch(8)

[Selur]

@Alwyn: Why the TFM()? The source seems progressive to me.

[aramkolt]

Could it be that this is PsF (progressive segmented frame)? So in other words - pairs of fields that are from the same moment in time? I've seen it on old U-Matic music videos before which essentially allows for a progressive frame but is still NTSC/interlaced compliant.

[RB1988]

Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 4.31 GiB
Duration : 6 min 0 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 103 Mb/s
Frame rate : 29.970 FPS

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings : Custom Matrix / BVOP
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : Variable
Format settings, picture structure : Frame
Duration : 6 min 0 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 99.9 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 9 000 kb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top field first
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 9.642
Time code of first frame : 01:00:00:00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
GOP, Open/Closed : Open
GOP, Open/Closed of first frame : Closed
Stream size : 4.20 GiB (97%)

Audio #1
ID : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 6 min 0 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 9.64 MiB (0%)
Service kind : Complete Main
Dialog Normalization : -27 dB
compr : -0.28 dB
dialnorm_Average : -27 dB
dialnorm_Minimum : -27 dB
dialnorm_Maximum : -27 dB

Audio #2
ID : 189 (0xBD)-129 (0x81)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 6 min 0 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 kb/s
Channel(s) : 5 channels
Channel layout : L R C Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 19.3 MiB (0%)
Service kind : Complete Main
Dialog Normalization : -27 dB
compr : -0.28 dB
cmixlev : -3.0 dB
surmixlev : -3 dB
dialnorm_Average : -27 dB
dialnorm_Minimum : -27 dB
dialnorm_Maximum : -27 dB

Menu
Format : DVD-Video

This is what MediaInfo gives me for the original .vob files.

[Alwyn]

Why the TFM()? The source seems progressive to me.

Thanks, I'll try without TFM.

Could it be that this is PsF (progressive segmented frame)? So in other words - pairs of fields that are from the same moment in time?

Agree, the frames aren't precisely the same.

[cholla]

I decided to give it a try with just ffmpeg.
I went back to .mpg.
I did not change the resolution.
The .06mpg has a lower frame rate.
To me this looks better.
Partly because it slows the flashing lights some.