[MEncoder-users] High quality MPEG4 encoding of interlaced DV source

[Alec Robertson]

> I'm having hard times figuring out the best way to encode at high quality
> some PAL DV footage.

I use yuvdeinterlace from the mjpegtools project to deinterlace my skiing
and surfing footage, both of which have fast motion and pans. The result is
nearly as good as yadif+mcdeint with the advantage of being much faster. 

x264 natively reads y4m streams, so it's easy to then encode the deinterlaced 
footage with 2-pass x264 and gpac's mp4box to generate quicktime compatible 
mp4 videos for web distribution. If you want better quality, add the more 
advanced h264 options, and encode natively into a matroska container.

If you want to build a dvd instead, keep the interlacing and encode
the y4m stream directly using mpeg2enc. You can use lav2yuv in both cases 
to read your dv file directly, or output yuv4mpeg streams from cinelerra...

/Alec