Good Smart Deinterlace Filter for VirtualDub?

Hi there, I'm looking to capture 720x480 and 720x576 component video using VirtualDub and I'd like to deinterlace this footage on the fly as I am capturing. I am thinking that with the power of Core 2 CPUs, this should not be a problem. However, I'd like to use a smart deinterlacing filter to do the job, so only the affected parts of the interlaced frame are actually deinterlaced. Can any one recommend a particular filter? It will be used on footage from games consoles. so the interlacing is pretty sharp there.

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In VirtualDub I would use the ffvdub (comes with ffdshow) filter, which gives access to a great number of Deinterlacing filters (including KernelDeinterlacer, TomsMoComp and DScaler's Deint-Filters)

Some time ago I did a comparison of some deinterlace filters. You can see the results . The page is written in czech, but you can have a look at the images. Based on my test I would recommend Smart Deinterlace filter from Donald Graft. But do not use blend to deinterlace the areas. This setting worked best for me:

johnsonlam I hate blend deinterlace. It looks terrible on all movie I've seen. It might look good with some low motion movies, but it is hideous in dynamic scenes. But of course you're right, that the ideal setting depends on a source material.

Never blend and don't bother with KernelDeinterlacer or TomsMoComp they never remove all the interlacing and make the file harder to compress. I always remove a field or use Deinterlace Smooth by Gunnar Thalin. Have a look .

You know you have to separate the feilds with avisynth and it doubles the frame rate?

Instead of creating a ew thread I'll just continue onto this one, the question is similar enough... sept I'll need alot more work and dumbing down for my question to be answered.... Basically I'm a huge newb to DvD, I finaly learned how to convet VOB to AVI but now the AVI's are interlaced, how fun! For the past week I've been trying to learn how to fix the problem, reading guide no help there, I'm lost. Using VdubMod I used the IVTC method of trying to deinterlace it but that only... kinda worked I guess. Then reading guides upon guides I hear all the rabble about Avisynth, I download all this stuff for it... don't have a clue how to use it though. I just need an easy way to deinterlace this DVD of mine. What or where should I start doing/looking.

TheBlueTree> First of all, you should check, if your DVD is really interlaced or if it is telecined. Then it would be really useful to learn how to use Avisynth. It is easy, you just create a text file with commands and an .avs extension and then you treat the file just like if it was an AVI. You can also try to use AutoGK, which automates the use of DgIndex, Avisynth and VirtualDub. These are the essential tools to do a high quality DVD rip. johnsonlam> You need a very simple AviSynth script for Deinterlace Smooth VD filter: Code:

wow I'm pretty slow lol, so it's just as basic as html format basically? Yes it's interlaced, I was useing a DGIndex guide then it mentioned avisynth and I noobed out lol. So thank you very much I shall get to work now :) If you separate the fields which doubles the frame rate.... wouldn't that make the file really huge?