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In comparision with Cin rendering, the DeVeDe dual pass with YADIF deinterlacing did compress the movie_0.mpg more and it was verified as progressive. All progressive dvd video qualities were visual comparable.
du -sh dvd-wide-*/*.mpg dvd-wide-*/*/movie*.mpg 598M dvd-wide-dv01_20230526-225332/dvd.mpg 598M dvd-wide-dv01-ffmpeg_20230527-000911/dvd.mpg 380M dvd-wide-dv01-dualpass-yadif/movies/movie_0.mpg
mediainfo dvd-wide-*/*.mpg dvd-wide-*/*/movie*.mpg | grep Scan Scan type : Progressive Scan type : Progressive Scan type : Progressive
Regarding Dvd Interlaced Chroma: Possibly PAL dv 4.2.0 is more pleasant for MPEG-2/DVD 4.2.0 than NTSC dv 4:1:1 (?)
May be you can control bitrate and interlace flags in cingg manually, too: Look for xml file in upper-right corner of batch render window, open it in editor before hitting start, look for vmpeg specific params for mpeg2enc module, edit them, save xml file in editor, start render. (not tested just idea)