Originally Posted by Seraphic- Well, at my website SeraphicGate.com, I make gameplay videos of boss battles and dungeon guides from tri-Ace games off my Playstaion 2. So after I capture videos and then encode using xvid or realmedia. Couldn' I use the video card to deinterlace the video before I encode using another format? (I'm trying to find the best way to deinterlace video without a lot of artifacts)
Then you can't use your video card to do it. Don't try, you won't be able to do it (trust me

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Keep using AviSynth, but try another deinterlacing filter if you don't like the results you're getting. That's probably the best thing you can use now.
jake123: Cablecard? What's that (sorry, never heard of it...

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