[HELP] Interlacing and Difference in Stream vs Container Frame Rate

[protectron]

I'm working on Courage the Cowardly Dog DVD remuxes.
The stream frame rate is 29.970fps, while the container frame rate is 24.120.

Hybrid loads like this:

Prefering container (24.120) over stream frame rate (29.970) -> Forcing time code extraction, since input is detected as vfr! Extracting time codes from mkv for track with id 0. Adjusting frame count (32685) to time code entry count (32687).

For some reason when going frame by frame the source in VLC is not interlaced, but it is in Hybrid.

This is with Deinterlace off in VLC and no filtering in Hybrid - just loading the source.
I suspect this is due to the different frame rates but am not sure.

Enabling QTGMC introduces some ghost elements, which is another problem, but first I would like to address if the container rate or stream rate is the proper rate to use, and how to tell Hybrid to use the stream rate if necessary.

Source MediaInfo:

Video ID                                       : 1 ID in the original source medium         : 224 (0xE0) Format                                   : MPEG Video Format version                           : Version 2 Format profile                           : Main@Main Format settings                          : CustomMatrix / BVOP Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom Format settings, GOP                     : Variable Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG2 Codec ID/Info                            : MPEG 1 or 2 Video Duration                                 : 22 min 35 s Bit rate mode                            : Variable Bit rate                                 : 5 508 kb/s Maximum bit rate                         : 9 800 kb/s Width                                    : 720 pixels Height                                   : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3 Frame rate mode                          : Variable Frame rate                               : 24.120 FPS Original frame rate                      : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS Color space                              : YUV Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0 Bit depth                                : 8 bits Compression mode                         : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.661 Time code of first frame                 : 09:59:59:00 Time code source                         : Group of pictures header GOP, Open/Closed                         : Open GOP, Open/Closed of first frame          : Closed Stream size                              : 890 MiB (96%) Title                                    : MPEG-2 Video / 5508 kbps / 480p / 24.120 fps / 4:3 Language                                 : English Default                                  : Yes Forced                                   : No Original source medium                   : DVD-Video

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