[REL] Mail to the Chief (2000)

[thelost]

The last movie featuring Ashley Gorrell, her last movie worth seeing. Sadly not the lead but still a bit of screen time. Won't be for everyone.

Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197655/

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[ghost]

A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online friendship with someone bearing the screen name Average Joe, only to discover that he's been corresponding with and giving political advice to the President of the United States

[David32441]

Topaz has a deinterlace filter so giving it a go. The film looks so cheesily bad though! Interestingly the de-interlace seems to work on all but the bright red sharply moving data. Weird.
Some advice to whoever encoded this orginally... It's a waste doing an mkv of a video without de-interlacing it first. The original file could simply be processed in software like Virtualdub with a de-interlace filter to massively improve it before mp4 encoding it. I don't know if the mp4 encoding is done on the sepeate fields or the merged fields. Also the file size is 2-3x what's needed for an mp4 encode for a film that's not even 720p. Still best to have a film than not, and best to have more data than too little.

[David32441]

Topaz has a deinterlace filter so giving it a go. The film looks so cheesily bad though! Interestingly the de-interlace seems to work on all but the bright red sharply moving data. Weird.
Some advice to whoever encoded this orginally... It's a waste doing an mkv of a video without de-interlacing it first. The original file could simply be processed in software like Virtualdub with a de-interlace filter to massively improve it before mp4 encoding it. I don't know if the mp4 encoding is done on the sepeate fields or the merged fields. Also the file size is 2-3x what's needed for an mp4 encode for a film that's not even 720p. Still best to have a film than not, and best to have more data than too little.

I found that Topaz's deinterlace tried to double the frame rate and totally screwed up the video. So instead I just deinterlaced it in VirtualDub and upscaled it in Topaz to 720p with it's normal upscale filter. The result is a good 98% of the interlace noise has gone (occasional red backgrounds cause some artifacts), a super-clean upscaled picture, and for the bonus, the file is now a far more reasonable 1.27gb file, not 3.8gb! The audio and subtitle track are identical to the original.
https://mega.nz/file/9dJi2BhT#QmGCk7yPt ... sveiUITkGE - part 1
https://mega.nz/file/UIY2jb7S#-PeJjddgq ... 4RHHYhnX3A - part 2
https://mega.nz/file/BMgj0SJA#cP7JhL0Bf ... NVddOS8vRo - part 3
https://mega.nz/file/tQYQjR7b#6LAA4__9s ... rs1W9ouNCI - part 4

[David32441]

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