Convert VHS PAL Lagarith captures to DVD?
 

I have captured some of my PAL VHS types as Lagarith AVI files. I use AviSynth filters to de-interlace, de-noise and correct levels etc (QTGMC, TemporalDegrain2, LevelsLumaOnly, Crop and AddBorders). I then use command line FFMPEG to create MP4 files to playback on a media PC using VLC.

But I have 2 captured tapes which I need to share with family as DVD playable discs. Is AviDemux a reasonable tool to use for the conversion? The part I am struggling to understand is how to input an .AVS script as the source. Also should I not deinterlace if the end deliverable is to be DVD?

Create your DVD MPEGs from the original pre-deinterlaced/cropped Lagarith files.

- Avidemux for freeware MPEG encoding.
- Simple DVD Creator freeware for authoring.
- Imgburn for burning authored ISO or VIDEO_TS file set.

TVs have overscan, are interlaced, etc, so what you've done for your computer playback won't look right. Or you'll have to recreate a MPEG-ready version, but without deinterlace/crop, just the various NR you ran.

If you insist on using the current deinterlaced sources, and if Avidemux will not import/open the .avs, then you may have to first encode it to a lossless intermediary AVI (and Lagarith is fine) using VirtualDub or VirtualDub2. Then open that new lossless deinterlaced in Avidemux.

I wish Hybrid did MPEG, I've asked.

Ok, I will use my original interlaced .AVI captures - just means I will omit QTGMC from my AviSynth script. But after croppingoff the bottom head switching noise, should I add borders to maintain the frame size at 720x576? Or crop to 704x576?

I should also convert to 4:2:0 for the intermediate AVI file?