Filter for lines from poor tracking or stretched VHS tape?

[Barnabas]

Are there are any VirtuaDub or AVIsynth filters that can improve captures from tapes that have horizontal lines or streaks from poor tracking or tape stretching?

[lordsmurf]

No.

[ebenton]

I think that the best you can hope for is to use some video editing software and just delete the frames with the worst streaks in them. That's the only thing I have been able to do. Of course, what I was using were old home movies made into VHS tapes, with no sound. (They never had sound.)
If you have audio to worry about, then deleting too many frames might cause problems there, as well.

[grannyGeek]

? maybe ?

Although I haven't tried it, DeScratch documentation says it can improve such damage, you have to rotate the video to vertical to do that.

http://avisynth.org.ru/descratch/descratch.html

please post back how it goes, I have an upcoming project that will need this sort of restoration.


EDIT ADDED ---
PS -
I had a capture that had quite mild stretch marks like that, and RemoveDirt took care of them, as well as chunks of dirt and small blotches.
but RemoveDirt can do terrible things to small objects or lines during pans, so fenceposts flicker in and out of existance as you pan past them.
It does quite well if your background is fairly stationary or very sloooowwwww pan.

[DirtBag]

The Canopus ADVC300 is very good at fixing these artifacts but will set you back a few bucks.