
I am 100% sure it is not from a film reel (telecined). I'm re-encoding to save space and fix the mastering errors. And it looks like using DVDShrink (disabling VOB splitting and compression) and opening that VOB in StaxRip fixes the issue. Why are you re-encoding, anyway? Isn't your playback system smart enough to play MPEG2 video files? Why MKV? It's progressive but poorly mastered so there's combing on the raw video. You could use the free DGindex to make demuxed m2v video and AC3 audio files and tell DGIndex to ignore pulldown flags to get the original 24fps without pulldown flags. I don't use any of those free push-button automated converters, but maybe someone can make a better suggestion. What you need to do is learn to use real software, not MakeMKV. Why are you re-encoding, anyway? Isn't your playback system smart enough to play MPEG2 video files? Why MKV?


You can't use QTGMC or similar deinterlacers on telecined video because soft-telecined video isn't interlaced. Likely as jagabo says it's progressive with pulldown flags of some kind or other. So what do I need to make a proper encode? Progressive video doesn't have combing effects. The video is progressive (with combing, QTGMC fixed that). The VOB files can contain a mix of progressive with pulldown, true 29.97 fps interlaced, and any lower frame rate with hard pulldown to 29.97i.

The pulldown flags tell the player how to produce 59.94 fields per second from those progressive frames (this is the 29.97i that is constant on all DVDs). The progressive frames can be any frame rate from 19.98 fps to 29.97 fps. DVDs can contain progressive frames with pulldown flags.
