Your favorite de-interlacing method?

[homerpez]

I ask, because as yet, I have found none that work (hence, I make SVCD's which support Interlacing).

I don't mean IVTC, I mean simply removing the artifacts associated from REAL Interlaced material (NTSC TV shows capped from TV).

I've tried most of the de-interlacing filters, I've tried most methods, I've tried "simple" (just dump a field, get 1/2 the resolution), and the "complex" (field bob, deceminate by 2)... or just a simple "blend fields" (which makes ghosts).

And I know someone's going to be mean enough to post a guide on "de-interlacing", from that guy who's only solution is... make every movie 60fps Progressive video!

Is there some "holy grail" method I'm not aware of? One that doesn't lost 1/2 the resolution? One that doesn't require making every movie 60fps Progressive? One that doesn't leave Ghosts everywhere from blending?...

If there could just be ONE difinitive answer, it would save time and effort for all of us who maybe want to encode to SVCD AND Divx, not encode to SVCD OR Divx.

[crahak]

Well, there are lots of ways to do it. The problem is, none is perfect... Lots of softs and filters and methods, but you will not find the "perfect" method as there is none

I could enumerate ways to do it, but it sounds like you've been down that road already so

People have preferences, and yet, it depends a lot on the source material... Smart deinterlace, greedyhma, you name it

[Dodzzz]

well.. I usually separate instead of deinterlacing it using TMPGEnc's even-old field (field, adaptation) method.
the result will be a doubled frame rate, fluid motion videos for PC playback only.

[D_Knife]

www.100fps.com

[homerpez]

The last two mentioned here... are exactly wha I want to avoid! 100fps.com is a completely worthless site... that was that guy who says the only way to de-interlace is to make everything double-framerate... not an option, thank you.

And I can do it by separating fields, field-bob, resize,, then dumping every other frame (thus making it 30fps in the end), but then it's no different than just throwing out half the resolution again. NO DICE.

I guess I'm looking for the best of the not-perfect methods... so far, I'm not even close... I'd like to have some method that works, even if not perfectly.

I've seen Divx's made from DVD's that clearly were interlaced TV material (29.97), yet are totally de-interlaced and at the same framerate - so I know it can be done.

[Dodzzz]

The Double, adaptation method in TMPGEnc gives pretty good result, it blends moving areas only leaving the non-low motion areas interlaced.

And I think the best solution is to get a progressive scan camcorder.

[homerpez]

Thanks for the info, I'll try that. Looks like I'll have to trim with V-Dub, Direct Stream Copy to a new AVI, then De-Interlace with TMPGEnc... oh, well, so long as it works in the end...