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[Selur]

Interesting thing is. The video isn’t combed. Like it doesn’t look interlaced when playing the raw m2ts file.

I would:

• load clip
  
• enable 'Filtering->(De-)Interlace/Telecine->Overwrite scan type to'
  
• set 'Filtering->(De-)Interlace/Telecine->Overwrite scan type to' to 'progressive'
  
• open the Avisynth/Vapoursynth Preview
  

If the preview doesn't show combing artifacts during horizontal motion the source is progressive.
No need to deinterlace or telecine.

So they made it interlaced 1080i/59.94 (i wonder if they doubled the frame rate and labeled them as fields? And then encoded them as interlaced?)
When i get info it shows up as 1080i/29.97 on the avc file.

Blu-rays only allow 1080i29.97 / 1080i30, there is no 1080i/59.94 on a Blu-ray.
Bobbing 1080i29.97 content would result in 1920x1080 @ 59.94 frames.
Bobbing 1080i59.94 content would result in 1920x1080 @ 199,88 frames.
Assuming the number behind the slash is the frame rate and not the field rate. (If it was the field rate, 1080i29.97 would be really uncommon content that probably only software player support!)

I think i can get it back to 1080p/30 fps.
Using qtgmc to double the frames followed by srestore frate=30.

seems to be the wrong approach here.

So they made it interlaced 1080i/59.94

No, they made 1080i/29.97 by simply encoding the content as interlaced using MBAFF, which allows the whole content to be progressive.
You might want to read-up on the difference between MBAFF and PAFF when handling with interlaced AVC content.

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