I've been fooling around with this a bit, thinking about doing a v2. Well, it's more like a v1.8 since it could really use a fresh capture, but that is out of my hands unfortunately.

The source/cap has a lot of problems, primarily some very heavy chroma artifacts/rainbowing and annoying dotcrawl.

My avisynth clean-up script uses the following atm: ssiq for the chroma noise/rainbowing, tfm for ivtc, fft3dfilter for more chroma smoothing and eedi2 to remove dotcrawl/aliasing.

I have been unable to completely eliminate the worst of the rainbowing but it is mostly gone or subdued. The filtering does affect the general chroma, perhaps it looks a bit desaturated, but I don't really mind tbh, as the shimmering mass of colors that was before looked a lot worse to me.

A few screenies:

Since dvds are soo yesterday ;) I'm currently planning to do this as a x264 mkv. If anyone following this thread has a huge problem with that please let me know.

Comments, ideas etc. are welcome...