Need help with Spawn (DVD Season 1)

OK, I spent $5.50 at WalMart and got this God forsaken DVD. Now that I have it I've decided the earlier VHS release was most likely the source for this DVD. :devil: I'm at least positive they did all their editing in video for the "uncut" scenes. If I reach any satisfactory, non-comical conclusions I'll let you know. Though, at this moment, I'm not sure there is a solution for this source that doesn't involve flame and 9mm bullets.

Yes, the ghosting is in both fields. There is not much you can do. You can try the vdub filter Exorcist: But I don't know how good it works. So, try it and tell us!

Well, I can't try it out myself: my computer freezes up in the middle of all encoding jobs I try to make, even though I just got an extra 256MBs of ram :(.

I have an idea: wouldn't it be possible to deinterlace each field separately, weave the result and then IVTC (or whatever else applies)? Would something like SeparateFields().testbob().Weave().whateverelse do the trick?

given that: a) the chroma combing only occurs on a very small number of frames and b) the source quality is horrid we can simply blur the chroma channel and the combing is gone. Code: