Zork Grand Inquisitor: High-Quality De-interlaced DVD Videos (Interest Check)

[blflotilla]

Hey everyone,

Now that the DVD version of Zork Grand Inquisitor is working, I noticed the original MPEG-2 video playback has some pretty severe interlacing issues.

I have extensive video encoding experience, so I decided to fix this. I ran the MPEG-2 files through QTGMC (one of the best de-interlacing algorithms out there) and kept the audio completely uncompressed. The results look fantastic and the video plays perfectly!

The one catch: The subtitles are currently out of sync. They seem to be tied directly to the original video's GOP structure. If you play with subtitles turned off, everything is flawless.

Note on a permanent fix: I think the absolute best solution would be for someone to implement YADIF double-frame rate de-interlacing directly into the libmpeg2 library during compilation, but I don't have the coding background to pull that off.

Before I spend the time converting and organizing the rest of the video files, would anyone be interested in a pack of these high-quality, de-interlaced MPEG-2 videos (knowing the subtitle issue exists)? Let me know if there's interest and I'll get them uploaded!

[sev]

Uploading those videos without the explicit permission from the current IP owners would be a violation of copyright. Please don't.


Eugene

[eriktorbjorn]

Note on a permanent fix: I think the absolute best solution would be for someone to implement YADIF double-frame rate de-interlacing directly into the libmpeg2 library during compilation, but I don't have the coding background to pull that off.

That would be nice, but I don't know how to do that either.