I've recently been reviewing my media collection, and I have a number of poorly encoded DVD rips from when I was first learning all this. I still have all the originals, and I plan to re-rip a lot of them to fix these issues.
These are primarily served by PleX, and consumed on either an iPad Pro or an Nvidia Shield Pro / Sony Bravia OLED, fwiw
My question is: given relatively unlimited storage space, should I be deinterlacing? I don't love the idea of storing MPEG2, so my initial thoughts would be to re-encode that to h264 (and therefore deinterlace). Some of my older BBC blu-rays are however 1080i h264. In the past, i reencoded these (poorly) and deinterlaced. When i re-rip, should I re-encode/deinterlace at all, or just have my consumer devices worry about all that.
Lastly, what's the best way to do deinterlacing these days? I prefer to use ffmepg directly. nnedi? bwdif/yadif? I know that some of my discs (e.g. Top Gear's Burma Special blu-ray) contain some sections interlaced as 50p, and others "fake interlaced" as 25p, and I'd like to retain the extra smoothness in the former scenes if possible, without messing up the latter.
Any thoughts, anyone?