DVD encoding issuses w/ progressive fames plays back as interlaced. SOLVED!

[ty1er]

I just finished up rendering a animation that I was working on. I exported the rendering into a image sequence at 720p. The next step in my process was to make a animorphioc transfer onto DVD. So I imported the sequence into Premiere CS3, and then exported the video to DVD.

The jist of the settings for the DVD video were:
NTSC 29.97
Bitrate CBR 6.0
Format Widescreen (1.2)
Frame type: Progressive

Now when I playback the DVD the video quality kinda sucks. Here is a sample image of the alising problem that I'm talking about:

From what I gather what is going on that that the player, let it be; windows media player, media player classic, or a stand alone DVD player - is that they are applying a deinterlace filter onto the progressive scan video. The end result is that I'm getting this aliasing effect.

Now if I browse to the same DVD, go into the VIDEO_TS folder and drag and drop the main *.vob file onto wmp the playback of the video is perfect.

Wierd right? Since the issuse only happens when I play the DVD as a DVD disc, there must be a flag telling the play to deinterlace the video. If I import the .vob into vdub, the video is definitly progressive.

I can't figure out why this is happening, and what I can do to fix it.
Any suggestions are welcome

Thanks
-ty1er/


EDIT:

I have found that if I playback the video in either VLC, or Nero Vision express the playback is Excellent. So my question, does Windows Media player 11 not read the progressive flags or something?

[ty1er]

NERO!!!!!! IT was g*&damn NERO! It had nothing to do with premiere, or my encoding settings. Freakin Neros mpeg2 decoders was the issue!

I use Nero 6.6 which has treated me great for my cd/dvd burning needs. But unfortunately Nero installs a bunch of codecs along side of the installation of the program. It would be great it the DVD audio and video worked properly, but they don't! The dvd audio (NeAudio.ax) codec studders horribly, and I just figured that the root of my problem was caused by Neros mpeg2 video decoder, (NeVideo.ax).

There are a couple ways you can disable them. First you can browse to
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter" can rename NeAudio.ax, and NeVideo.ax to something like NeAudio.ax.REMOVED and NeVideo.ax.REMOVED.
Or the second way. Since neros mpeg2 codecs suck, I decided to unregister all neros codecs that are installed with Nero 6.6 by runing a bat file.

You can just CC this into a text file and save it with a *.bat extenion.

@echo off
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NDParser.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeAudCD.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeAudioConv.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeCapture.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeDVD.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeDVSplitter.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeFileSourceAsync.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeFileSrc.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeFSource.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeNDAud.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeNDMux.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeNDVid.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NePhotoSource.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NePSMuxer.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeQTDec.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeRender.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeResize.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeroFormatConv.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeroVideoProc.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeSceneDetector.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeSplitter.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeVcd.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeVCR.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeVideo.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeVideoAnalyzer.ax
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeAudio.ax

This will unregister all Neros codecs. Then if you want you can delete all the .ax files.

Hope this helps someone else in this situation

-ty1er/