ok parts of videos that i gin at times have flickering, or what i tend to call them "stobing" or "pulsing"
tmpgenc's anti flicker filter doesnt sort it , adobe and sony's de flicker doesnt sort it, and the msu filter even though is updated, is sadly still no good becuase it turns the visual into somethign simlar to a glass bowl just been washed with fairy liquid.
Are the videos you are working with interlaced? It sounds a lot like an interlacing issue to me.
Kinda sounds like a simple field order problem. Give it a go changing the field order from upper to lower maybe.
Hope this helps.
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Or field-shift, where the fields come from two neighboring frames. I've run into that on some PAL Star Trek dvds. (This is the least likely. All 3 are fixable).
What do you see when you step through it, frame by frame? (See if you can open it in VirtualDubMod. It won't add fields). What are your sources?
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Download shows from Cable DVR (Updated! Yes, it needs a rewrite, but it's worth slogging through, anyway).