How to deinterlace captured movies?

[alegator]

Hi, I captured movies from my Sony TRV950 (NTSC) to my PC via firewire into DV-AVI movies in my hard drive. Some of these DV-AVI I encoded to DivX using the DivX converter. So I have this collection of DV-AVI and DivX movies that when watched in my PC LCD monitor shows the jagged lines not seen in my TV. So how can I deinterlace these movies so to watch them with good quality in my PC LCD screen? Can I use Windows Media Encoder? If so, what's the procedure? Thanks.

[Baldrick]

virtualdub and add a deinterlace filter.
or try autogk, latest versions supports dv-avi.
or Dr. Divx.

[alegator]

What deinterlace filter can you suggest for virtualdub? And what about Windows Media Encoder? Thanks.

[harley2ride]

If you play them on your pc with Powerdvd or Videolan, you don't need to worry about interlacing...

[edDV]

Have you tried a deinterlacing viewer like PowerDVD, WinDVD or VLC (set for deinterlace)?

If you are going to attempt computer deinterlace, start with inverse telecine (IVTC) in virtualdub. This is only likely to work with your DV-AVI files.

An HDTV with "Cinema" processing would do this in hardware realtime.

[alegator]

I have PowerDVD with Deinterlace option enabled. I played the same DivX in both Windows Media Player and PowerDVD but I don't notice much difference...maybe the DivX Converter applied deinterlacing to the DV-AVI when encoding to DivX?

[edDV]

I have PowerDVD with Deinterlace option enabled. I played the same DivX in both Windows Media Player and PowerDVD but I don't notice much difference...maybe the DivX Converter applied deinterlacing to the DV-AVI when encoding to DivX?

Yes, divx is already deinterlaced but try the player on your DV-AVI files. Those should show a difference.

[alegator]

Ok, I'll try it on the DV-AVI's and will let you know. What deinterlace options should I use in PowerDVD? Automatic or manual advanced?