Deinterlace

[pimp80]

I have Gladiator region 4 pal and its interlaced. Is it neccesary to deinterlace if so why? I am using cce 2.5 and dvd2svcd.

[banjazzer]

If you are encoding to SVCD, you can produce an interlaced mpeg, which will look fine on your TV, but maybe not so good on your PC.

[pimp80]

cool excellent thanks, if I chose to deinterlace would it effect the bitrate of the svcd at all.

[banjazzer]

The bitrate of the SVCD may be affected if you are using CQ (I really don't know) but if you are using 2-pass VBR or CBR then the bitrate is constrained by your initial settings.

[Raging_Inferno]

deinterlacing does not affect the bit at all, all it does is that it remove one of the fields or blends them
the bitrate is the same

[banjazzer]

In CQ mode the bitrate used is determined by the nature of the material encoded, and is not constrained at the outset, except by the *quality* setting chosen. If the de-interlacing in any way changes the output (which it does) then the bitrate chosen will be different, because the material is different. Overall, the filesize may not differ by much, but then again it might. If you use 2-pass VBR then the bitrate will stay the same whatever (overall), and the filesize will be the same, interlaced or not.