Okay, so I searched the forums and did not see any posts about this, but I have a question. So I was ripping one of the Family Guy box sets -- normal DVDs, not Blu-Ray or anything. I've ripped them multiple ways, many different formats and combinations in attempt to see if I could fix this, but no matter what I do there are these... lines I guess, whenever there is fast movement occurring in the frame. It does not to this on the AVCDH video I have of another Family Guy -- only on these DVDs. Is it just because of the lower resolution since it isn't HD and the other is? Or what? I figured there might have been some way to rip it in a manner that corrected it, but thus far nothing. Is it just something you have to deal with if you rip a DVD of this kind? Or does anyone know a method that makes it look better. Below is an example of these 'lines' I am speaking of in a scene where there was movement from walking. Even during scenes where the characters talk there are lines appearing just from that movement. Anything that can be done? Thanks.
These are NTSC (North American) disks??? - if so, this is normal interlacing.
This shows up on a PC - unless your PC media player (likes of VLC) is set to not show interlacing.
If you were to burn a new DVD from the ripped files and play it back on a standalone DVD player, the interlacing would not be apparent on the TV.
The lines are caused by interlacing vs progressive scan which is better and doesn't produce those lines. I'm amazed the interlaced video is still used, however I have family guy sets and never saw an interlacing on them. The video was interlaced when it was encoded, but this video seems to be unusually bad. I've seen it like that before in DiVx compressions but on DVD it's usually not that bad, although still noticeable. Was the box set an original theatrical release? What are you using to play it back since most players should have deinterlacing built into them including software players but they might not necessarily be turned on. Look through your menu and see if it has a deinterlacing option. See if anything in this thread helps you.
