Originally posted by: Moth3r

Originally posted by: Max_Rebo
the duration in virtual dub is correct and it plays back at normal speed, but some frames do appear interlaced (which shouldn't ever happen with PAL) ...

You shouldn't get interlaced frames with PAL for those movies shot on film. However, this was a made-for-TV movie, so it's possible that you're dealing with a poor NTSC-PAL conversion. This might be what's throwing Womble off, don't know, only ever used it once.

I can think of two possible solutions, neither is ideal:

1. Process the video with AVISynth or VirtualDub to try and make it progressive. This means re-encoding the whole stream.
2. Buy the Region 1 NTSC version and see if you get the same effects.

This was indeed a made for TV movie but as far as I know it was shot on film also there has never been an NTSC release of this dvd so option 2 is out.

I've been having a closer look at things and the sped up play in zoomplayer etc. doesn't seem to be related to the interlacing as I have tried ripping some different dvds and they all do the same but show no evidence of intelacing and all frames are present.

Since my reasoning for missing frames was the sped up play and that no longer seems legitimate I had another look and all the frames do seem to be there but many are interlaced, my new working theory is that the field order is wrong as I believe this would cause this effect, but I'm only guessing and I could be completely wrong.

anyway I seem to be having issues with my hard-drive at the moment so I'll have to have another look at this later.