Encoding help

[terry666]

I'm working on encoding a film I captured with my DVR, but I haven't had much luck getting a good quality result. For example my result looks like this:

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...and an image grab from the vob file my DVR gives me, looks like this:

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Not that the vob is entirely perfect. The interlacing is very visible when there's movement:

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..though the deinterlace filter helped a bit.

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I used VirtualDub-MPEG2 to encode a 2-pass Xvid avi. I also used the deinterlace filter as mentioned above, and Don Graft's smart resize filter which I think may be the culprit for my quality loss. I applied it to keep the file size down, but I think it may not be worth the savings.

I am going to try encoding the film again without it, but if anyone has any other tips, I sure would gratefully receive them!