Filtering MPEG1 conversion

[zilog jones]

I've got a pretty low quality MPEG1 video (320x240 @ 29.97fps; can't remember the bitrate at the moment) which I want to (i) convert the framerate to PAL and (ii) resize to 352x576 and possibly filter out the blockyness. For the framerate conversion I just used ConvertFPS(50) and and then made it into interlaced 25fps, which seems to be OK. Is there any better way? (It's definately not telecine by the way)

Only problem is it looks quite crappy - I only used lanczos to resize it and did nothing else. The macroblocks are just blurry macroblocks now. Anyone have some good scripts for getting rid (or at least smoothing out) of typical MPEG1 artefacts?

[scharfis_brain]

post a sample MPEG :)

[zilog jones]

Sorry, that would sound like the easy thing to do, but it's not on my PC, and to make things worse it's not on a PC that's on the internet either. I'm stuck for time too, but I'll see if I can upload something tomorrow or on Friday. Sorry if that doesn't sound very helpful.

But surely there's some general filters I can use for low-bitrate MPEGs? Some sort of temporal smoother or something? I'd rather have it blurry than blocky, as it's only going to be viewed on a 14" TV anyway - it's just I have to convert it to MPEG2 first (I'm making some screwy-standard SVCD).

[zilog jones]

After some forum searching I found out about Mug Funky's Funkydeblock, which seemed to do the job pretty well.