This concept of deinterlacing is new to me. On VLC Media Player, I have several deinterlace options: blend, bob, discard, linear, mean, and x. Does anyone know if one of these options is preferable to the others?

That tells me you need to update VLC to the lastest version. Those options are all pretty terrible compared to Yadif and Yadif (x2). It is hard to tell whether video is interlaced or not with Yadif.

Thanks, I'll try that out.

So it is interlaced video as opposed to progressive video that has been telecined to adjust the relative fps? Am I right in thinking that these are two different things?

Are all your sub 24/25 fps silents interlaced then? I thought most of them were progessive but telecined or something to adjust the fps?

All SD DVD encodes of films that are less than 24fps have to be interlaced somehow. There are a number of ways of doing it. The real problems arise when interlaced PAL masters are then badly converted to NTSC, which compounds the problems. Luckily, we've never done this.

On SD DVD we typically issue pure interlaced PAL material as PAL encodes and thus, when a player "deinterlaces" it, it looks fine.

Thanks for the explanation.

I updated the grabs in the Lubitsch review to remove the interlacing on most of captures.

Thanks, Ashirg!

After watching them for the first time, I felt pretty much the same as you. But I'm going to give Die Austernprinzessin a second chance. Maybe it will grow on me.

Nick,

If this has not gone out of print, when can we expect it to come back into stock because it is not available at any online retailer?