encoding "ugly" outtakes

[ChAoS Overlord]

I am ripping the extra's of the third fawlty towers dvd, there are some outtakes in it, but in a not so good quality, grain, stripes,... Now there are a lot of things possible, what should I do? Bilinear resizing? temporal smoothing? divx5's cleanup filtering? ..........? I really don't know...

[Acaila]

I'd use TemporalSmoother(3), SmartSmoother(3,25) and Soft Bicubic. And ofcourse full post-processing.

[ChAoS Overlord]

so no divx5 filtering and/or virtualdub filters then?

btw: I use decomb for deinterlacing (its an interlaced pal source)

[DJ Bobo]

What do you think Acaila is talking about?! he's talking about virtual dub filters!

[ChAoS Overlord]

I thought he was talking about avisynth filters?! :confused:

[Acaila]

Avisynth's or VDub's filters don't make much difference, both do the job. Personally I always use VDub's fast-recompress and import all my filters into Avisynth (even when they need colorspace conversion :) to work).

Btw, that filter combination I suggested really cuts into encoding time. And I mean doubles or even triples. If you're not prepared to make that kind of sacrifice you could give the SimpleResize filter a shot. For me it's sometimes twice as fast as a BicubicResize filter. It might save you some time.