Need to change field order

[Loko]

I have just finished authoring a DVD (VIDEO_TS folder) with Menus & Chapters, preceded by considerable editing & trimming. It plays on a TV but the field order is apparently reversed from that produced by the original DVD camera. As a result, any motion in the picture tends to break up. I don't want to spend hours redoing all this just because the field order is wrong. Is there any easy way to change TFF to BFF for this DVD?

[guns1inger]

Perhaps DVD Patcher. I know Restream will, but not on VOB files.

Where in the process did the field order change ? Usually this only happens when video is re-encoded.

[Loko]

Thanks gunslinger, but Patcher won't change the field order. Also, both it and Restream work on MPEG only.

The order changed back at the beginning with the first of several re-encodes

[guns1inger]

Then the only solution I know of is to demux the video, use restream to change the field order, test it, then put the video back. If you still have the original authoring project then it will be simpler to just fix the video and author again.

[manono]

Also, both it and Restream work on MPEG only.

So, demux (PGCDemux), change the field order (ReStream), remux (Muxman), and stick the fixed DVD back into the original DVD (VobBlanker). Nothing hard about that. Just takes some time.

[Loko]

Thanks gunslinger. I was afraid of that. Maybe someone else will come up with a solution.

[Loko]

Well, manono, I appreciate the very complete reply. Once I've downloaded all those programs I'll give it a try. But, not until tomorrow. I'm a little bushed right now.