How do I IVTC this movie?

[GalFisk]

How do I make DVD2AVI or VirtualDub [or, if that is impossible, in something else] to do a correct IVTC?
When I choose Forced FILM in DVD2AVI, it combines the wrong fields so that every fouth frame gets interlaced. When I use automatic IVTC in VirtualDub, some interlaced frames slip through. Also in one place of the movie, the part showed on a TV screen is differently IVTCed than the rest of the picture. Should I just feed the whole thing through a deinterlacer (which one), and/or perform an IVTC first (where and how)? Very thankful for any tips that'll make me able to encode this as high quality as possible and without any interlacing artifacts.

[setarip]

Have you tried from within VirtualDub, from the "Video" dropdown menu, clicking on "Framerate" and then selecting "Inverse Telecine (3:2 pulldown removal)", "Reconstruct from fields - adaptive"?

[GalFisk]

Yes, that's the one that works best, but some interlaced frames still gets through now and then. Is there a good deinterlacer than can catch those without degrading the quality of the rest of the movie, or is it something else I need to do?

[UncasMS]

there are a couple of very good vd/avisynth filters for this task:

decomb
tomsmocomp
greedyhma

[GalFisk]

OK, I'll check out those and see if they work.