Why are there horizontal lines during heavy motion scenes?

[wookstar]

I need to know why these horizontal lines appear during heavy motion scenes on my MPEG2 conversions? And is there a way of getting rid of them?
Does it relate to interlaced video?? I'm clueless.
I thought it might just be something i did wrong when converting the VOB to a lower bitrate. But it seems to also be on the original DVD when I watch it in Apple DVD Player or Quicktime. When I watch the same DVDs on my standalone player they look just fine. It's mostly anime DVD's that have this problem. I've tried using a better motion estimation setting in FFMPEGX but no use I'm convinced it's related to the source Mpeg2, cause it also has the lines, just less prominant cause of the higher bitrate.
Why is this going on? I love anime and most of the DVD's I've tried have this issue when converting to SVCD. If anyone can help me I'd be very grateful.
Thanks in advance.

[puertorican138]

There's nothing wrong with your conversion using Interlace. When you view your MPEG-2's on your T.V you won't see any lines at all unless you get really close to the T.V.


Hope That Helps!!! :P

[wookstar]

When I watch the DVD version on my TV I don't see lines, but my Converted SVCD has the lines, even on the TV. Does this mean that the problem lies in the SVCD conversion? If I'm using FFMPEGX to convert to SVCD what setting should I use reguarding the bitrate and motion estimation to eliminate this problem??? Any ideas? Anyone?

[KillerLoop]

I am having the same problem

The solution should be swapping fields, from bottom first to top first.. but for me it didn't work. By the way, the problem is in interlacing method, try different settings when you re-encode video and let us know!

Bye!

[toisanji]

I have teh same problem, when I watch a anime DVD in my laptop, i have weird horizontal lines, but in a normal DVD player, no lines, but when I extract the DVD fmovie files from the DVD and burn to svcd or vcd, the lines stay even if I play them on the tv or on my computer. Any answers?

[wookstar]

I kind of fixed the problem.
Someone in a different forum suggested using mediapipe to deinterlace.
But I tried that and no luck. The only thing I have tried that actually worked was Afropic. You have to check deinterlace amongst other settings. The quality is good if you mess with the settings for encoding, but it takes forever
to encode even a 40 minute SVCD. Yet the Lines problem is solved. I don't know what to do. I guess I'll just buy a DVD-R drive and skip the whole problem.