Best way to deinterlace this footage?

[Aludin]

The person didn't bother to deinterlace this at all and later resized it. I've found that resizing vertical resolution to 328 largely mitigates the moire pattern and makes it deinterlaceable but I still get ghosting effects. What's the best way to fix this?

[jagabo]

The original field structure has been screwed up so a normal inverse telecine won't work. Try something along the lines of this in AviSynth:

Blur(0.0, 1.0) # blur away most of the comb artifacts
vinverse() # blur more comb artifacts
FixBlendIVTC() # remove blending
TDecimate() # remove duplicate frames
Sharpen(0.0, 0.7) # resharpen the picture a bit

Sample attached.

[Aludin]

Thanks a lot jagabo, I didn't know about fixblendIVTC before. Your script works a lot better than mine not to mention faster.

#AssumeTFF()
#lanczosresize(720,328)
#QTGMC(preset="medium")
#lanczosresize(720,404)
#Selectevery(2,0)
#TDecimate

Your script sometimes leaves some vestigial interlacing in some motion scenes while mine never fails. But mine blurs the hell out of everything while yours doesn't so the pros and cons balance heavily weighs towards yours.
Thanks again.