Can Interlaced videos be played non-Interlaced?

[Ted Wagner]

I posted this question in the Firemonkey section, but since I'm using Delphi XE2 VCL and still need an answer to this question I thought I'd post it here.

I have a video from a Sony camera that is recorded interlaced. When I play it with Windows Media Player, it plays beautifully. When I play it with a VLDSVideoPlayer, the fields are not properly combined and the resulting flagging is rather ... bad.

What does WMP know that VLDSVideoPlayer doesn't? Isn't this part of the playback handled at the decoder level?

Is there a way to get the VLDSVideoPlayer to do whatever WMP is doing?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

(The video can be downloaded here for another week or so.)

ted