[FFmpeg-user] Meaning of ffprobe output

[Carl Zwanzig]

On 1/30/2019 12:23 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>  this is not about the "signal" that is of
> course interlaced for analog PAL but the content that
> may of may not be interlaced (and the idet filter only
> looks at the content and nothing in FFmpeg is able to
> look at an analog video signal).

Agreed. I mention it simply because AFAIK DVD recorders converting from 
analog will almost always produce interlaced files. However, more important 
is that the entire process of converting analog tapes to digital is full of 
pits and perils, and the conversion artifacts will play hob with any 
processing (like de-interlacing).

The best route, of course, is to capture into a lossless format and process 
from there. May not help the OP.

Later,

z!
who has some U-Matic tapes to ingest sometime Really Soon Now