>As the title says, is this at all possible? My concern is mostly with mpeg2 
>and h264 that have content of one type but encoded/marked as another.
In a general manner, amongst other things, interlaced encoding involves 
interlaced DCT, so this is not possible because it is not a simple "mark".
In some very limited scenarios, it is possible to tag interlaced content as 
progressive-segmented frame (PsF). Take mpeg2/h264: I have never seen any 
implementation (neither encoder or decoder) of the flags that actually allow to 
mark progressive content, so PsF is pure theory here. So today, for example, 
only "progressive sequence" mpeg2 is considered progressive : you have to 
transcode.

>Most notably content that has progressive video but stored interlaced.
"encoded" rather than "stored", but yes, it is indeed very commonplace.
Nevertheless, be very very carefull, it is also very very commonplace to have 
interlaced branding/finishing on progressive content, so it can end up with  1 
hours of pure progressive content with 3x period of 10s where an interlaced 
title appear or disappear in a corner... This is why deinterlacing filters are 
both so useful and so tricky.

Nicolas
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