Making MPEG exported EyeTV records watchable in VLC

I’ve not had much success with the default export options in EyeTV, the quality (or lack of) the MPEG4 video is just not acceptable e.g. the opening credits of Futurama turn into a McFlurry of pixels. Overall the quality of th export is well, crap.

I did some researching on teh Interweb and discovered that I may be better off exporting the initial EyeTV recording as a basic MPEG stream. This gives me a basic file that I can then hand off to either VLC or transcode (or is it mencode)? Unfortunately viewing the file in VLC (with default Mac options enabled) the interlacing becomes very apparent. The interlacing effect are the little lines that appear in the frame, see the further reading section if you want to know about interlacing.

Fortunately I was able to remedy this by going into VLC preferences and enabling the de-interlacing filter.

Then selecting my choice of deinterlacing (in this case blend).

Now I just need to work out how to make a usable MPEG4 or DivX exports…

Further reading: http://www.100fps.com/

[tags]VLC, EyeTV, deinterlace[/tags]