SilverWook said:
Maybe I should try a capture into my DV camcorder one of these days? (Just on the problem scenes as a test.) The DV input of my DVD recorder might bypass the filters used for analog video.
On the other hand, without the DVD recorders combfilter we would have captures with bad dotcrawl and rainbowing instead. So you did the right thing of course, the combfilter in the recorder I tried out was horrible, combined with the lousy composite signal of my player it was basically unwatchable.
That is definitely not the case here, there's only a couple of scenes I've noticed smearing and that it may be the combfilters fault is still only a guess of mine so it would maybe be nice to get it proven right or wrong instead of speculation, if you'd like to go through the trouble I can post examples of the problematic scenes for you to check. What really baffles me though, is the dropped frames/fields in the video, so weird.