[Help] Restore video ripped from VHS and upload to YouTube!

[Angy86]

Years ago, I used one of those old DVD/VCR combos to rip VHS tapes onto a lot of DVDs.
It was done carelessly, with no thought for quality.
Unfortunately, I currently have no way to capture better video from those VHS tapes.


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Now, I've tried using StaxRip to improve a test clip of about 5 minutes as much as possible
before working on the hundreds of clips I'll have in total.


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This is what I got with my settings and I'm honestly not satisfied
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srxq_P8Xah0

I have attached 5 minutes of video taken from the DVD.

Thank you!

[lollo]

The source is interlaced TFF, and is not in good shape.

There are corrupted frames (4, 5, 1288, 5862, 5863, 5876, 5877), comets (the white moving spots) and other defects.

The levels are OK.

I do not use any GUI, so following is an AviSynth flow.

As first, I would deinterlace with QTGMC.

Then I would motion interplate the corrupted frames, for instance with MVTools (MFlowInter)

Let's stop here for now, let us know if you need assistance running this filtering. We'll try to fix the others defects later. However, do not expect miracles.