Deinterlace PAL DVD with "Sliders" tv show

[domator]

Hello,
I have a European PAL DVD with TV show Sliders. I tried deinterlacing in AviSynth and VirtualDub but I can't get decent results. I tried removing every Odd or Even field but it doesn't solve issue. It seems that from time to time there is 1 whole frame which has 2 bad fields. I tried removing 1 frame in every 25 frames but the remaining 24 frames are not fully deinterlaced. I don't really know how to approach this. I tried some out of the box deinterlacing filters but with no luck.
I want to resample the DVD so first I want to get best possible progressive video from it.

Here I uploaded a small sample, M2V:
http://5.196.74.194/domek/VTS_02_3.demuxed.m2v
The whole #459 frame looks bad like it should be removed entirely. Frame #679 looks interlaced.

Here's how the frame #459 looks like:

[StainlessS]

The Guys would more likely prefer a cut direct from the VOB file, not avi.

In DGIndex, mark a 10->30 second section with both movement and bad frames, using the '[' and ']' keys to mark start and end.

And "Save Project & Demux video", post the m2v file only.

[domator]

Thank you. I uploaded M2V file.

[hello_hello]

It's probably not interlaced, but the fields are out of alignment, making it appear to be interlaced.

The simple test for most PAL sources is to add Yadif(Mode=1) to a script and step through the frames. If every second frame is a repeat of the preceding one (or very close to being an exact copy), the source isn't interlaced. If every frame is unique where there's movement, it is interlaced.

You can probably fix it using TFM() to put the fields back together.

TFM() # from the TIVTC plugin
AssumeFPS(24000,1001) # optionally undo the PAL speedup.

I say "probably" because I haven't seen the source and there was almost no motion in your sample. For de-interlacing issues, it pays to upload a clip containing a fair bit of motion, if you can.

[domator]

Thank you, hello_hello. Your scripts gives a really nice output.
Does it mean it was 24fps converted to 24fps by duplicating fields?
Also does TFM() keep all the fields or does it delete Even (or Odd) fields like many deinterlacers?

[mbcd]

Forget it !

I tried that a long time ago, they are encoded by total idiots.

Try to find the scene of episode 5. Der keimfreie Planet (Fever)
Staffel 1, Folge 5 (45 Min.) at about minutes 3,30 where they walk along the street, going downstairs through that scanner entering the foodplace.

This shows how crappy it will be !
Try to solve that scene !
You cant remove fields, because then you get jitter and jumps, because of missing movement.

I gave up on it.

[domator]

Thanks, mbcd, I will try episode 5. My DVD is a British release, not German one so there is a possibility my is different.
For now I am uploading a longer M2V piece do everybody can give it a try. I have terribly slow upload speed so that will take a moment.

[domator]

Here's a short clip after deinterlacing, upscaling and fixing colors. I think it doesn't look bad:
http://5.196.74.194/domek/Upscaled.mkv

What I used, Avisynth:
LoadPlugin("DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("TIVTC.dll")
MPEG2Source("2.d2v")
TFM()
AssumeFPS(24000,1001)
nnedi3_rpow2(rfactor=2)

and then VirtualDub to fix colors, because I don't how to fix colors in Avisynth yet:
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,500,1,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetEditMode(1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.audio.EnableFilterGraph(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetInputFormat(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetOutputFormat(7);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(3);
VirtualDub.video.SetSmartRendering(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetPreserveEmptyFrames(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate2(0,0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0, 0, 0, 0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.BeginUpdate();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("2d cleaner optimized (0.9)");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[0].Config(0, 10, 2, 2);
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("MSUColorEnhancement 1.0b");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("Brightness & Contrast");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[2].Config(53, 690, 0);
VirtualDub.video.filters.EndUpdate();
VirtualDub.audio.filters.Clear();

[domator]

Longer clip: http://5.196.74.194/domek/2.demuxed.m2v

[hello_hello]

Originally Posted by domator

Thank you, hello_hello. Your scripts gives a really nice output.
Does it mean it was 24fps converted to 24fps by duplicating fields?
Also does TFM() keep all the fields or does it delete Even (or Odd) fields like many deinterlacers?

I assume it was 24fps originally and simply sped up to 25fps for PAL, if that's what you're asking. AssumeFPS(24000,1001) just slows it down again, but you'll have to apply a slowdown to the audio too. Generally without correcting the pitch, so the sound drops back to it's original pitch when it's slowed down.

TFM is a field matcher. It looks at the fields and tries to match them up for whole frames. It can de-interlace when it detects combing after the field matching, or if the source is really interlaced, but you can field match without any de-interlacing enabled if you want to.

TFM(pp=0)

TFM keeps all the fields for a film source (or 25fps progressive). For your sample I don't think there's any field duplication to speed it up to PAL. For some reason the fields can end up out of alignment though.

Instead of this (top and bottom fields)

A B C D E F
A B C D E F

progressive PAL is often encoded as interlaced and ends up something like this

A B C D E F
B C D E F G

So it looks interlaced but it's not, and TFM simply matches the fields again to output progressive frames. If you de-interlaced with Yadif(mode=1) instead, each frame of the 50fps output would be duplicated. That's why it can be used to check if it's really interlaced, or just foolin'.

When it de-interlaces, TFM de-interlaces to the original frame rate, so yes, for interlaced PAL it'd only output 25fps rather than 50fps.

[hello_hello]

Originally Posted by domator

Here's a short clip after deinterlacing, upscaling and fixing colors. I think it doesn't look bad:
http://5.196.74.194/domek/Upscaled.mkv

What I used, Avisynth:
LoadPlugin("DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("TIVTC.dll")
MPEG2Source("2.d2v")
TFM()
AssumeFPS(24000,1001)
nnedi3_rpow2(rfactor=2)

and then VirtualDub to fix colors, because I don't how to fix colors in Avisynth yet

This converts standard definition colorimetry to HD colorimetry.

ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709", clamp=0)

Then you can add
--colormatrix bt709
to the x264 command line and with any luck, the colors of the encoded video will be the same as the DVD colors on playback Assuming no other color/brightness adjustments when encoding, but that sort of thing is personal preference.

[domator]

Originally Posted by hello_hello

This converts standard definition colorimetry to HD colorimetry.

ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709", clamp=0)

Thank you, this gives nice colors!

Originally Posted by mbcd

Forget it !

I tried that a long time ago, they are encoded by total idiots.

Try to find the scene of episode 5. Der keimfreie Planet (Fever)
Staffel 1, Folge 5 (45 Min.) at about minutes 3,30 where they walk along the street, going downstairs through that scanner entering the foodplace.

I got the scene you mentioned:
http://5.196.74.194/domek/VTS_02_1.demuxed.m2v
It works quite OK with the script from hello_hello. It seems this scene has a lot of motion blur and not interlace. Even when I just kept Odd (or Even) fields it was blurry. But with hello_hello's script the motion is not jittery.

[mbcd]

Originally Posted by domator

Thanks, mbcd, I will try episode 5. My DVD is a British release, not German one so there is a possibility my is different.
For now I am uploading a longer M2V piece do everybody can give it a try. I have terribly slow upload speed so that will take a moment.

I checked it, seems like they are a little different, but have same mastertape. Only in scaling there is a little difference. Your version is a little bit sharper at framecorners and has brighter colors.
But content seems basically exactly the same s*it:



Left side is German version, right side is UK version. Both used TFM().
So there are still lots of blendings left.

[ChaosKing]

There is also Sliders Blu ray on amazon, 4 discs(?) with all seasons. DVD resolution. Maybe it has better quality.

[mbcd]

This source is from that Bluray, I hoped it is a new transfer, but it is the same as on those old dvds. So no better quality on that.

The only chance to get a better quality is to buy the NTSC version, but there are 2 sets of it, a 26 disk set and a 15 disc set. The 15 disc set has a bad quality, because bitrate is way too low, and 26 box-set is way too expensive (for me).

[Frank62]

Try SRestore with frate=25.
Except for the car the scenes look quite ok.
We often had this ugly type of old PAL-1''-copies. Single fields are blended and field dominance changes steplessly.

Is this John Rhys-Davies? The series is British? Then chances are high that the NTSC-DVDs are even worse, if they converted from the PAL source.

[ChaosKing]

Sliders is a US series.

[Frank62]

Then: Buy the NTSC-DVDs...

[domator]

Ha, look at this:


This really makes me upset. I also bought US version of Sliders. And with this simple .AVS:
LoadPlugin("DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("Decomb.dll")
MPEG2Source("1.d2v")
Telecide()
it gives great quality. Seems the PAL version was made by some idiot who didn't care, didn't know enough.

And here's the NTSC clip:
http://5.196.74.194/domek/1.demuxed.m2v
It's from a 6-disc season 1&2 combined release:
https://www.amazon.com/Sliders-Secon.../dp/B00022FWEU

[mbcd]

damn ..... I wished I had some way to get those too, but 200€ is far too expensive, just bought the bluray-version.

Just what I said, damn idiots made that transfer for european market. Nice for you, you got a great quality version, now you can continue!
You shouldnt get any problems with interlacing anymore.