http://files.filefront.com/Receptionavi/;10866783;

Here is a link to the uncompressed file, I couldn't upload the whole clip because of file size, but this is a uncompressed conversion (very short to keep file size down).

Looking through the video frame by frame, no sign of interlacing, there are also very little signs of the flickering. I find the lack of interlaced to point away from it being a frame rate confusion issue, but since its fine when I deinterlace, thats why I wonder if there is an frame rate issue. When I encode to mpeg 2 in Hcenc, it becomes more obvious, but Hcenc isn't the problem, as I've tried other media encoders with the same problem.

No mpeg 2 plugin for Vdub, just exporting before sending into Hcenc. I am using Lancoz3 or Precise Bicubic, I never had a preference, both seemed to yield the exact same result. I tried different versions of Vdub, Vdubmod, and VdubMpeg. Same story for all of them.

I captured through Firewire, through the program HDVsplit, though I don't think thats the problem.

I'll check out the Videohelp forum, see what I can find.

Thank you for all your help with this. :)

http://files.filefront.com/Hcenc+Encodezip/;108681

Here are the files, in three stages, HD File, Vdub Downconverted File, and Hcenc Encoded File. I recommend burning the Hcenc file to DVD, the problem seems to show up better on a Tv than computer screen.