Bad Quality when encoding the Sex and the City Season to Xvid

Hi :stupid: I've got a problem. I've bought the first Season of Sex and the City (PAL) and i would like to encode the episodes to Xvid. But it fails every time. May be somebody knows how bad the quality on the DVD is. Also the DVDs are interlaced. Which deinterlacer should I use in Gknot? Should I use Smoh filter or anything? What can I do to improve the quality? Every time I encode the episodes the quality is unsharp and everywhere in faces are pixel. Hope somebody knows the answer to this problem... Greez BlumiTheRipper

What bitrate are you encoding to? Are you using a constant quality mode, a CBR mode, or an ABR mode (2 pass)? What other settings are you using for xvid?

as far as I remember "Sex and the City" has gotten fieldblended to PAL. Later Episodes were DEFT conversion with proper PAL-Speedup but Scene changes and some scenes remained blended and interlaced. Long story short: I second Manono's request.

:thanks: for all your quick replies... @manono: I will create a little sample and i will upload it to Rapidshare @burfadel: I use 2-pass VBR modus with the newest xvid 1.2 binary because this new release is dualcore optimized. BItrate is around 1000 kbit/s. @scharfis_brain: So what does it mean? Can I use filters to improve this?

It's now ok! I don't want to rip the sex and the city season no more... Now I've got the same problem with King of Queens... Picture is very bad after using Xvid in 2-pass mode... :( The same problem like sex and the city... Please help me..