If you want interlaced output:
a. keep deinterlacer at auto
b. make sure the input is detected as interlaced
c. make sure to select interlaced output in the encoder settings
Hybrid will then know not to deinterlace and properly flag the output during the muxing.
What you did is tell Hybrid that your content is progressive which it wasn't so what happend is Hybrid in your case used mencoder do decode the content and then x264 to encode the content. Problem is, mencoder outputs raw video, x264 expected raw progressive video, but got raw interlaced video, thus misinterpreted the raw data which ended up with what you got.
What happens is that Hybrid uses ffmpeg for file input which servers it's data to x264 using y4m which contains the info of the video.
Problem is the content will be flagged wrong, which will lead to players probably not deinterlacing the content and possible color issues. (color conversions of interlaced and progressive input works differently; note that these color issues are minor, but they exist)
-> not a bug in Hybrid, but a user not knowing what he does.
Cu Selur
Ps.: sadly mencoder does not support y4m piping and ffmpeg does not support dvd input.
a. keep deinterlacer at auto
b. make sure the input is detected as interlaced
c. make sure to select interlaced output in the encoder settings
Hybrid will then know not to deinterlace and properly flag the output during the muxing.
What you did is tell Hybrid that your content is progressive which it wasn't so what happend is Hybrid in your case used mencoder do decode the content and then x264 to encode the content. Problem is, mencoder outputs raw video, x264 expected raw progressive video, but got raw interlaced video, thus misinterpreted the raw data which ended up with what you got.
Quote:If uncheck "DVD input" and select any *.VOB file from the same DVD - everything works fine.Not really it just looks like it.
What happens is that Hybrid uses ffmpeg for file input which servers it's data to x264 using y4m which contains the info of the video.
Problem is the content will be flagged wrong, which will lead to players probably not deinterlacing the content and possible color issues. (color conversions of interlaced and progressive input works differently; note that these color issues are minor, but they exist)
-> not a bug in Hybrid, but a user not knowing what he does.
Cu Selur
Ps.: sadly mencoder does not support y4m piping and ffmpeg does not support dvd input.