Deinterlacing Xbox 360 Game videos

[toxikneedle]

Hello, I capture xbox360 gameplay footage from time to time using my VisionTek Theatre 550 capture card. My question is, what is the best way to deinterlace the video and keep it looking sharp and good.

[FulciLives]

If you want to burn it to a DVD Video so you can play it back on a DVD player then you do NOT want to de-interlace it.

But if you want to make a XviD or DivX then you do need to de-interlace it.

So really the first questions is ... what is your final "format" to be?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[hrlslcbr]

Avisynth has many different high quality deinterlacing filters that might help you. If you want to deinterlace 'on-the-fly', you can try using a TV plug-in for winamp.

[toxikneedle]

well I'm going to convert it to a WMV file for PC playback.

This is what my AVS script is atm:

Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\limitedsharpen.avsi")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MaskTools.dll")
LoadPlugin("V:\videos\kerneldeint141\kerneldeint.d ll")
AVISource("1.avi")
ConvertToYUY2(interlaced=true)
KernelDeint(order=0)
crop(8,0,-8,0)
LimitedSharpen()
Lanczos4Resize(760,428,0,0,704,480)

[FulciLives]

My suggestion for PC playback would be to use autoGK and let it do the de-interlacing for you. It generally speaking does a good job (knock on wood).

However autoGK only does XviD or DivX conversion ... no WMV ... yet XviD/DivX are both very popular computer based video formats so I don't really seeing that as a big deterent unless you want WMV and nothing else (though why I can't imagine).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
Oh I didn't see your script there at first ... I must have started posting before you did that.