How to deal with captured from cable animation?

[TeddyQ]

I've been saving episodes of The Venture Brothers (coolest show on TV) that I captured off of cable as DVD-complaint Mpeg2 susing a Hauupague 250 card.

I plan to make a data DVD with a bunch of the episodes converted to XviD so I can get them all on one DVD+R.

I will be watching the XviDs on a computer monitor or on the Phillips 642 DVD player which handles progresssive and DivX4/5 video (no GMC or Qpel). I don't mind if the result looks less than ideal on interlaced TV sets hooked to the Phillips, since I dont expect to watch it that way very much.

Using the mpeg to avi guide over at videohelp.com I tried opining the files with VdubMpeg2 and saving them as AVI using the Xvid codec with the "cartoon" box checked and lame mp3 audio. But the output of that looks (when played back in Windows Media Player) like it has bad interlacing artifacts anywhere there's motion. Selecting FILM and NTSC output in the Xvid codec eache seemed to make no difference.

I knew from reading other guides that DVD2AVI was the more appropriate first step. But I waanted something less complicated and wasn't sure how to use DVD2AVI on animated sources that were originally captured from cable not DVD. That and I've had no luck trying to get framserving going with vdub in the past.

So the question again is: What is the simplest way I can get nice looking deinterlaced Xvids starting from a NTSC bcroadcast animated source capped as DVD complaint Mpeg 2?

Thanks for any help folks can provide.

[Kalium]

Try using DGIndex and AVISynth, and discussed here: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechbeta/