>> Is there a way of telling how a DVD has been encoded in terms of field
>> order?
>
> For that I use a program called "dvdview" against the decrypted
> .vob file. At log level 3 (-v 3) you get info like this:
...
>PictureHeader:
...
> top field first: false
...
> r
>> Check cinelerra --- see what it says about your video's field order. (If
>> it doesn't say anything, then you *know* it is broken.) The source DVD
>> is not necessarily bottom-field first (or even top-field first); if not,
>> cinelerra needs to account for that when it produces a DV fi
