IVTC, frame rate, deinterlace etc.

[manono]

...is the compromise still necessary? Why take it to that extreme?

I can only speak for myself. Before I got a DVD burner, I was AVI on CD all the way. Now that I have one, I'm slowly switching to DVD, but I still make AVI. On a low res interlaced TV set, I don't think there's much difference between a nice well encoded reasonably hi-res AVI and a DVD. Of course, when viewing on an HDTV, there's no comparison unless you make a hi-res large file size MPEG-4. Something like that 720p WMV on the Terminator 2 Extreme DVD, or other 720p or 1080i WMV videos that are available are pretty impressive by any standard.

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Thanks for the kind words.

BTW, those .xml files in the GK\Avisynth folder, are they in anyway usable?

Interesting. I'd never noticed that until you pointed it out. It's the help file for SmartDecimate. You still need the .dlls, which you can find here:

http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org/tel/SmartDecimate-0.23.zip

Make sure you read the help file, though, particularly the section, Hybrid 3:2 pulldown and interlaced video which explains its treatment of hybrids, and why the developer (and I) think it's better than Decomb when you have hybrid material.

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For me, it's the problem of too many DVDs, it's getting hard to manage. Plus these SG1 DVDs are over 7GB, I can't burn them on 1 DVD. Using DVD shrink results in compression artifacts that are worse than the interlace artifacts. 3rd, I like having the eps on the HD for when I'm still into the show. Once I'm not, they get archived. Besides, the resulting divx files have been great in image quality, what started all this was "one" ep that didn't deinterlace correctly. I have since found the way to properly deinterlace and keep at least 90% quality from the DVD. At least to my eyes.

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Thanks for the kind words.

BTW, those .xml files in the GK\Avisynth folder, are they in anyway usable?

Interesting. I'd never noticed that until you pointed it out. It's the help file for SmartDecimate. You still need the .dlls, which you can find here:

http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org/tel/SmartDecimate-0.23.zip

Make sure you read the help file, though, particularly the section, Hybrid 3:2 pulldown and interlaced video which explains its treatment of hybrids, and why the developer (and I) think it's better than Decomb when you have hybrid material.

You're welcome. Thank you for the link. I will read up on the help file and do more test encodes.

edDV, these encodes are not for nothing, I'm learning a lot about encoding thru this. I have lots of TV caps that I like to encode to keep the size as small as possible. Now I have a way to do it.

[edDV]

I understand.
I'm looking forward to those 25, 50, 100GB DVDs.

... and yes the technology of all this is fascinating.