getting "fuzziness" in the simpsons, family guy...

[Sunshine1223]

Hi, I get som "fuzziness" and "shaking" on vertical lines when i watch the simpsons, family guy and american dad on my computer. Does anyone know how I can get rid of this?
I have tried to search, but I found nothing

I'm using Meda player Classic and ffdshow nov 28 2006.
Does anyone else eexperience this problem?

Thanks guys

[redwudz]

If it's interlaced video such as MPEG and you are watching it on a computer, you are probably seeing the interlace artifacts. Use a player that properly handles interlace and they should go away if the video was encoded properly.

If viewed on a TV, interlace is normal and you won't see any problem. If you deinterlace the video and then watch it on a TV, you may see you've thrown away half the quality.

Try VLC player or PowerDVD or similar players that can handle interlaced video. I thought MPC could display interlaced video properly, but I don't use the player.

But that's just a guess.

You need to tell us the video format, MPEG or other. Gspot 2.70 should give you all that info.

And welcome to our forums.

[Sunshine1223]

Hi!

it's the same when i watch in om my TV. When i open the files in powerdvd, it's the same, and my powerdvd seems to use FFDSHOW to view the episode., so it's the same problem there too. VLC doesn't improve things either.

This is what Gspot tells me:
[USER] XviD0037
XviD 1.0.3
Codec(s) are Installed

[manono]

If they're sourced from PAL, and are 25fps (check in GSpot), the PAL versions suck, are ports from NTSC, and are junk. Nothing you can do except to get them made from an NTSC source. If they're from NTSC, then maybe they're 29.97fps, and the encoder didn't know what he/she was doing. Don't download junk from the internet.

[Sunshine1223]

nah, they are in ntsc

[manono]

OK, 29.97fps or 23.976fps? If they were just deinterlaced and kept at 29.97fps (when they should be 23.976fps), then that would explain it.

Do you want to upload a sample for examination?

[Sunshine1223]

ok, guess there's nothing i can do, thought i could just use some filters or something

and it's in 29.97

[manono]

I think you just broke a rule here.

I don't want to go around looking for crappy illegal releases. I want you to cut a small 10 second piece with movement and upload it somewhere so we can have a look.

Failing that, open it in VDubMod. Scroll to a place with movement and begin advancing a frame at a time. Animation uses a lot of duplicate frames, but if I'm right, you're going to see a lot of blended/ghosted/double imaged frames which will account for the blurriness and aliasing you see. And if I'm right, it should have been IVTC'd back to 23.976fps to begin with, and there would have been no problems.