Gonna add to my comment: I don't like to use denoise filters because I worry that they'll wreck the image quality worse than simply leaving the noise intact. I use Avidemux 2.3 to encode my vobs, mainly because it's all-in-one, and produces reasonably good vobs with reasonable speed. (It's faster than tmpgenc, from what I can tell, and the output's comparable, especially using the tmpgenc quant matrix on the vob encoder.)

My filter profile is simple: decomb telecide, decomb decimate, crop, mplayer resize. I know the video is noisy - low-end LD player (although it is a Pioneer), bottom-of-the-line DVD recorder (works fine for me though), although at least I'm using a good video cable :P

I figure I can always leave the final project to someone else, though I don't know if drfsupercenter will be able to pull it off since he barely knows what he's doing (worse than me).