Oz Season 1 DVDs- BIG problems

[Flusterphonic]

Well, I've been trying for several days now to get a decent encode on these DVDs... and frankly, I'm baffled.

The problem, I think, comes from the fact that it seems to be randomly assorted partial NTSC and partial Film... some episodes have more NTSC interlaced than others, but some (like Episode 7 that I'm trying to encode right now) are just completely mixed bags...

I tried using DVD2AVI on forced FILM.... but the result caused Gordian Knot to spit out all kinds of error messages and refuse to encode... I'm all out of ideas, so any help would be appriciated.

[dbernat32]

Uncheck Forced Film in DVD2AVI.
Treat the entire thing as an interlaced NTSC source at 29.976 fps.

In Gordian Knot, you want to Deinterlace the video in the AVISynth settings.
NO telecine, NO Inverse Telecine, NO decimate, just deinterlace.

--David

[Flusterphonic]

Thanks, dbernat32... I'll give that a try...

My latest attempt I tried using IVTC in Gordian Knot... worked pretty well, but not quite good enough for my taste... the sections that were interlaced came out with jerky movement, etc... hopefully this will work. Thanks for the suggestion, anyway.