DV and Interlacing - a newbie question

[sidneysides]

I've just purchased my first DV Camcorder and have a query. I am under the impression that DV PAL footage is interlaced. When I play back my DV AVI, I cannot see any interlaced artifacts. I have tried encoding with CCE with Alternate Setting (for Interlaced sources) and with the ZIgZag Progressive setting, but whichever I use, I can see Interlacing lines on my encoded mpg. Can anyone help me with this? Does Media Player etc deinterlave DV footage on the fly? If so, do I have to deinterlace this footage when using CCE?
Any help would be appreciated

[guns1inger]

Are you seeing these on your computer monitor, or on your TV as well ? If you have only check this on the PC, do a test burn and try it on your player - they may not appear there

[sidneysides]

Just on my PC monitor - the strange thing is that I don't see these interlaced lines with the original DV footage played back in media player - only see it when I've encoded with CCE

[BSR]

I do believe Media Player deinterlaces DV on the fly.
If you are encoding to DVD for TV, then I would not deinterlace.

[adam]

I don't know if it would apply to PAL DV camcorders too, but for NTSC DV camcorders the footage is stored as bottom field first. CCE assumes you have top field first footage, so you have to tell it to crop the first scan line of your bff material to make it tff. Kinda strange, but that's how CCE works. The option for this is depends on the version of CCE you are using. For older versions you need to check the top field first option. For later versions its called line offset. I think you need to set it to 1.

I think you encoded your footage with the wrong field order. Even when playing this in a player that deinterlaces on the fly, the interlacing will still be visible. You can actually just change the field order in your encoded clip by using pulldown.exe. Hopefully that will solve it. In the future just make sure you either only feed CCE tff material (swap field order via your avisynth script) or set CCE to change the field order. I prefer the former option since I'm not too keen on just cropping part of my picture.