[MPlayer-users] how to avoid de-interlacing with mencoder?

[Balazs Lengyak]

Good day,

[yes, I know, read rtfm...]

I have a avi file with mjpeg compression. It was recorded from a VCR with PCTV Pro + xawtv.
Since mjpeg is not that efficient I decided to encode it to divx4.

Problem is this: the original video has a strange interleave that looks like
red and green colors are in different frames (and scanlines of course).
After deinterlace, the result is a reddish-greenish-flashing video.
The picture is ok, but the constant 24Hz flashing is unbearable.

Now my question is how to avoid de-interlacing? I tried to dig through 
documentations and manual, tried a few things, none worked. I tried
divx4linux and libavcodecs too, same result.

Thanks,
Balazs