Annoying "combing" affect on AVI files

[djdust]

hi there

I've got a lot of video files that I've recently picked up and all of them have a horrible combing effect on them which makes them nigh-on unwatchable. I've tried them on things like Media Player Classic, VLC, DIVX Player, etc. and they all seem the same. Is it more likely that the files have been encoded badly or is there maybe a setting in any of the players that will fix it? I've pasted the MediaInfo details of one of the files below...

cheers



General
Complete name : F:\video.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 502 MiB
Duration : 46mn 46s
Overall bit rate : 1 502 Kbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 46mn 46s
Bit rate : 1 300 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.169
Stream size : 435 MiB (87%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.0 (UTC 2005-11-22)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 46mn 46s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 26ms
Stream size : 64.2 MiB (13%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)
Title : Audio Stream
Writing library : LAME3.92

[Baldrick]

Screenshot?

I guess it's crappy deinterlaced.