best set of filters for Simpsons -Treehouse of Terror PAL

Several things. First of all, smoothing: I'd not bother myself (DVD sourced animation material is usually pretty snazzy anyway), but if you really want to, then I'd recommend 2D Cleaner Optimized (). This is much quicker than any other smoothing method I've ever used. It does the job very well. Secondly, Futurama. In order to compress these properly, and make them run smoothly, you need to use decomb. To encode Futurama season 2, I used Gordian Knot, and then edited the resultant .avs files in a text editor. All you need to do is delete the '#' before these two lines: LoadPlugin("c:\blahblahblah\decomb.dll") and, later in the script: Telecide() And that's it. This should remove the problems otherwise present during encoding. If that's not what you meant, then I've just wasted five minutes of my time writing all that down, but never mind. Hope it helps to some extent. Paul

i still have "2 pictures in 1". after using avisynths decomb it looks like just i have used deinterlacing in VDub. adding additional deinterlacing doesn't help. do i have to use both deinterlace and decomb in avisynth or can i also use deinterlace in VDuB.

ok... i also tried the decomb on my futurama DVDs and it works very well for it. it removes almost all combing and and puts the pictures together as they have been before telecining :) i think the simpsons-DVD is just a too bad source for decombing to work perfectly.:( i also tried the DUP filter for avisynth which removes identical frames (there are a lot in cartoons) and copies the frame before instead. encoding a small portion of a futurama episode saved around 10% disk space in 1-pass const, quality mode: it came out with 1540 kB instead of 1740 kB. VS

A setting for decomb that works perfectly for the Futurama PAL DVDs is: telecide(firstlast=true,post=false) (don't ask me what firstlast=true does, I only used this setting because Donald Graft said it was perfect for those DVDs - and I thought he should know :D ) Don't add a deinterlacer, you don't need it anymore (and btw. when you're using telecide without "post=false" then it uses Fielddeinterlace for postprocessing automatically). Be sure to use the newest version of Decomb, though. I don't think you need a smoothing filter for Simpsons (or Futurama) from DVD source. I'm using temporalsmoother(4,1).spatialsoften(2,5,7).temporalsmoother(4) for Simpsons tv captures (in avisynth 2.06), but these are quite noisy with my cable tv. btw. I just finished encoding the Futurama season 1 DVD set to 640x480 Realvideo 9. I used the above telecide settings, and no other filters except bicubicresize(640,480,0,0.5). Using a bitrate of 907kbit including 132kbit audio (Atrac) it is as near to DVD quality as it can get. Try this with Divx...