Macroblocking-removal And your Different Opinions!

[Xicor]

I'm just curious what filters (or methods) all the different people here use to get rid of macroblocking in anime. So the question is...

What method do you use to remove Macroblocking?

Personnaly, I like using HQdn3D with anime since it works great, but it isn't flawless (not like any filter is...)

~Xicor

[Chainmax]

I really like DeBlock_QED, although it isn't too effective on very blocky material.

[Video Dude]

I use ffavisynth's SPP.

[Chainmax]

SPP deblocking removes too much detail in my opinion. I prefer to use the following filterchain (suggested to me by Didée) for extremely blocky material:

DeBlock_QED_MT2(quant1=30,quant2=51)
Crop(whatever,align=true)
GaussResize(to about 150% size, use MOD16 dimensions)
LimitedSharpenFaster(SMode=4,LMode=3,Strength=1000,wide=true,soft=75)
EEDI2()
TurnRight().EEDI2().TurnLeft()
FFT3DGPU(sigma=1,bt=3,sharpen=0.7,precision=2)
Lanczos4Resize(final size)
AddGrain(x,0,0) <-- with x set in the 2-5 range

Aside from whatever other filtering the source might need.

[frednerk]

did a search for DeBlock_QED_MT2 with the only result being this post... any hints where to find it ?

[Didée]

http://www.avisynth.org/mediawiki/wiki/Deblock_QED

[foxyshadis]

They're really supposed to have the same names, but you can't do that with Mediawiki (which makes sense), so I versioned it that way. You should be able to save right over Deblock_QED, they're functionally equivalent (except for masktools bugs :p).

I've noticed certain patterns of incorrect usage of filters reported here, so I was going to build in workarounds or asserts to warn people about them. I've been useless lately though. @_@

On topic: vmToon that comes with masktools 2 is pretty good for fighting blocking, just keep the sharpening down if there's a lot or it'll make it worse. I like TBilateral for mild deblocking, or chaining it with a real deblocker if there's a lot. Other people just use deen or deblock.