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Epic IY Encoding Fail (Help would be much appreciated! :])

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teainapot:
So, as an Inuyasha fan, I bought the entire series on DVD (the season and movie boxsets, that is). To say that I hate the English dubbed version is a vast understatement. I also find the sub quality lacking, considering that the word "shikigami" is misspelled approximately 15 thousand times in the episode it's used (somewhere in the third season box set). I'm no expert, but I wouldn't call myself a noob. I want to rip each episode in as high quality possible (.mkv container; x264 codec with Vorbis audio), Japanese language only and then, OCR, retime, style, and obviously edit the subs. The latter part I can do easily, as I've taught myself how to work Aegisub, but I've ran into a road block with encoding. After months (months!) of using any freeware encoding program you can find, I finally settled on megui. Handbrake was my first choice, but I can't get it to deinterlace the video right. Megui deinterlaces the video perfectly, but the final encode looks like hell. I've tried any number of possible combinations to fix the problem, but just can't figure it out. Here's some screenshots using the first OP:

Original source (interlaced):
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My encode (deinterlaced, specifically IVTC actually, I think this one is decomb with IVTC):
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AHQ's encode (deinterlaced, from what I can tell):
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What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

Proin Drakenzol:
what kind of computer are you using? are you making sure to not do anything else with it (even d/l via bittorrent) while you computer is doing the encoding?

teainapot:
Toshiba Satellite A215-S5837. How would that affect it?

blubart:
your system shouldn't affect the encoding result.
i was wondering: you wrote a lot about deinterlacing, but is it possible the release is simply bitrate starved and looks horrible because of that? which settings do you use for the actual encoding?

teainapot:
Well, I found sharktooth's megui presets, and I've been messing around with those. After I finally bit the bullet (I don't like to mess with stuff I don't understand) and did some tweaking, it seems it was using VBR at 1000, and I changed it to CRF. That seemed to be the problem. I feel kinda bad for wasting everyone's time. *sheepish*

But, while you're here, what're some "sane" CRF values? I really liked what CRF 15 gave me, but it was 55MB for 1 minute, 35 seconds. This seems rather large.

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