AbsoluteDestiny wrote:1) There is no such thing as YUV2 - if you mean YUY2 then you are wrong again - DVDs use YV12. The old guides simplified colorspace descriptions into RGB and YUV so did not discuss YV12.
Yes, basicly I meant YUV 4:2:2
However, the thing is if you convert interlaced footage from YUV 4:2:2 from whatever source to YUV 4:2:0 (YV12), the interlacing gets messed up because you have 4 luma and 2 chroma samples per line so 2 lines will share their chroma information.
Could be that it wasn't eternely correct what I read, but when I tried using Avisynth 2.5 for my DVDs that was the result

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http://www.yahiko.de/amv/Aninet/temp/ilfalsch.jpgThis is what it should look like:
http://www.yahiko.de/amv/Aninet/temp/ilrichtig.jpgI even specified the field order in mpeg2dec3, but it didn't help.
After I typed the line YV12toYUY2() under the mpeg2source command the interlacing was correct again, therefor I believed DVDs are YUV 4:2:2
Hopefully the new guide will clear things up, there's alot of false information about colorspaces floating around in the internet
2) "Jaggy pans" will depend massively on the decimation method and pattern guidance. Decomb 5 has lots of methods for all sorts of footage types - there is no 'one setting suits all' so you need to be careful about which options you choose.
If, for some reason, you don't like the new decomb you can actually use this command
loadlegacydecomb()
Which I included inthe amvapp. It will do things exactly the way they were in the old amvapp.
Cool, I tried out a few options with field orders and none worked so far, so I just need to tweak things abit I guess ^_^