Flickering when converting to SVCD

[NiteCretr]

I'm capturing old anime VHS tapes (NTSC) and converting them to a digital format. When I capture at 352x240 and convert to VCD, the result is fine. After converting a few tapes, I wanted to try coverting one to SVCD. I've tried capturing at 640x480, 480x480, and 352x480 before using TMMPGENC to convert to MPEG-2 (using the template), but after burning and playing the test file on my DVD player, the video has a slight flicker or jitter. I've tried various seetings in TMPGENC but nothing seems to have much of an effect. Any ideas on what I can try or what I might be doing wrong? There was a webpage posted a day or so ago about interlacing. According to the page, you should not deinterlace the source. It also mentioned that Inverse Telecine sometimes improves certain anime, so I tried it and either didn't do it correctly or the orginal VHS wasn't Telecined. I'm kind of at a loss and would probably benefit from an expert opinion at this point.

Thanks,
NiteCretr

[Elco]

DO !() deinterlace, try "deinterlace on even field", it will probably solve your problem.

[NiteCretr]

Well, that's a definite improvement. It's still slightly jumpy, but that's probably because I'm just fixated on it at this point. One question though: why deinterlace on the even field as opposed to the odd field. Any reason?

Thanks,
NiteCretr

[shochan]

turn on use floating point dct and it will help a little more.